Staging High Potency Alcoholic Beverage Consumption

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项研究的长期目标是：1)检查 高效能酒精饮料的兴起和消费模式 (HPAB)，包括麦芽酒和强化葡萄酒，在三个种族和 经济上不同的青少年样本；和2)测试创新预防 旨在减少与使用HPAB有关的健康和社会问题的信息。这个 为实现这些长期目标而提出的具体目标包括： 1)绘制特定HPAB的启动阶段、HPAB的模式 消费，以及将HPAB与其他酒精饮料和 三个不同的青少年群体在三年内使用非法药物；2) 探讨HPAB的发生阶段与模式的关系 和非HPAB消费，以及与酒精有关的健康和社会问题； 评估与以下阶段有关的背景和心理社会因素 各种HPAB和非HPAB的启动和使用模式；以及4)制定 并试点测试创新预防的可行性和立竿见影的效果 旨在延缓高危人群开始使用HPAB的信息 青春年华。研究的探索性研究阶段，这将导致 关于新的解释方法和方法的方向性假设的产生 防止HPAB消费，将通过采用3年的 纵向队列设计。参与者从三个种族和 代表高危青年的社会经济多样化的学校环境 市中心、农村和海滩-佛罗里达州东北部的社区地区将为 作为受试者。从七年级到七年级，每年都会对这个队列进行跟踪 九年级。研究的形成研究阶段，这将允许 开发和试点测试创新的HPAB预防信息，将 通过使用三种研究方法来实现。这些方法包括 举办一系列焦点小组，召集专家小组，并最终 试点测试预防信息，旨在延缓启动和 HPABS的使用模式。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term goals of this research are to: 1) examine the stages of initiation and patterns of consumption of high potency alcoholic beverages (HPABs), including malt liquor and fortified wine, among three ethnically and economically diverse samples of adolescents; and 2) test innovative prevention messages aimed at reducing health and social problems related to HPAB use. The specific aims proposed to achieve these long-term goals include the following: 1) Map the stages of initiation of specific HPABS, patterns of HPAB consumption, and trends in mixing HPABs with other alcoholic beverages and illicit drugs among three diverse groups of adolescents over three years; 2) explore the relationship between the stages of initiation and patterns of HPAB and non-HPAB consumption, and alcohol-related health and social problems; 3) assess the contextual and psychosocial factors associated with the stages of initiation and patterns of use of various HPABs and non- HPABs; and 4) develop and pilot test the feasibility and immediate impact of innovative prevention messages aimed at retarding the initiation of HPAB consumption among high-risk youth. The exploratory research phase of the study, which will result in the generation of directional hypotheses about new approaches to explaining and preventing HPAB consumption, will be accomplished by employing a 3-year longitudinal cohort design. Participants sampled from three ethnically and socioeconomically diverse school settings representing high- risk youth in inner city, rural and beaches-community areas of northeast Florida will serve as subjects. The cohort will be tracked each year from the 7th grade through the 9th grade. The formative research phase of the study, which will permit the development and pilot testing of innovative HPAB prevention messages, will be accomplished by employing three research methods. These methods include conducting a series of focus groups, convening expert panels, and eventually pilot testing prevention messages aimed at retarding the initiation and patterns of use of HPABS.