Safe Choices to Prevent HIV/AIDS in Afro-Caribbean American Youth

加勒比非洲裔美国青年预防艾滋病毒/艾滋病的安全选择

• 批准号: 7681197
• 负责人: Cynthia Archibald
• 金额: $ 9.17万
• 依托单位: FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-04 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7681197
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Abstinence; Academic Training; Accounting; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Address; Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; Africa South of the Sahara; African American; Age; American; Attitude; Behavior; Caribbean region; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Child; Child Rearing; Church; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Community Healthcare; Complement; Consultations; County; Data; Daughter; Education; Educational process of instructing; Family; Florida; Focus Groups; Foundations; Funding; Future; Goals; HIV; HIV Infections; Happiness; Health; Healthy People 2010; Human immunodeficiency virus test; Immigrant; Incidence; Institution; Intervention; Knowledge; Life Style; Mentored Research Scientist Development Award; Mentors; Mothers; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Parents; Phase; Play; Population; Prevention; Preventive Intervention; Principal Investigator; Qualitative Methods; Religion and Spirituality; Religious Belief; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk Reduction; Risk-Taking; Role; Sampling; Sex Behavior; Sexual Transmission; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Source; Target Populations; Teenagers; Testing; Time; Training Activity; United States; Work; World Bank; Youth; base; community based participatory research; comparative; experience; group intervention; high risk; intervention program; post intervention; prevent; programs; sex; sexually active; social organization; statistics; theories; therapy design

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This K01 mentored research scientist development award seeks funding to support the broad, long term objective of developing a program of research in HIV/AIDS intervention for Afro-Caribbean American youth. The specific aims of the proposed study and related training activities are: 1) to advance knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS prevention focusing on mother-daughter relationships; 2) to gain expertise in appropriate research approaches including community-based participatory research for designing and testing an HIV/AIDS prevention intervention; 3) to expand understanding of statistics appropriate for use with intervention designs ; 4) to establish and maintain relationships with faith-based communities as a foundation for ongoing research; and 5) to develop and submit an independent externally-funded research grant. Training activities will complement the research objectives by providing mentoring, academic training, practical experience, and consultation. This proposal is health-related because Afro-Caribbean American youth are at risk for sexually transmitted disease including HIV/AIDS. The safe choice intervention emphasizes abstinence but also teaches them how to make responsible decisions should they decide to be sexually active. In this way, adolescents can eliminate the risks for sexually-transmitted HIV/AIDS. Churches have been a powerful source of influence for many Caribbean families and have been underutilized by researchers to effect changes in sexual behavior. This descriptive-comparative research design will develop and test a church-based, theory-driven, and culture-specific intervention from an existing intervention that works. The study will utilize a community based participatory approach using convenience samples. Two separate focus groups (10 mothers and 10 daughters) will be conducted to gain culture-specific information which will be used to tailor the existing intervention. In the "Act" phase, the tailored intervention will be implemented and feasibility and acceptability will be evaluated. The premise of the study is to identify culture-specific determinants of risk behaviors comprehensively using quantitative and qualitative methods to generate knowledge that can be directly applied to practice and develop a program of research focusing on safe choice as a means of HIV/AIDS reduction. The goal for future research is to identify and implement culturally-appropriate HIV/AIDS intervention strategies for Afro-Caribbean Americans.

描述（由申请人提供）：该K01指导的研究科学家发展奖寻求资金，以支持为非洲加勒比海美国青年开发艾滋病毒/艾滋病干预研究计划的广泛长期目标。拟议的研究和相关培训活动的具体目的是：1）促进有关艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防的知识，重点是母女关系； 2）在适当的研究方法中获得专业知识，包括基于社区的参与性研究，用于设计和测试艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防干预措施； 3）扩大对适合干预设计的统计数据的理解； 4）建立与基于信仰的社区的关系并维持正在进行的研究的基础； 5）开发和提交独立的外部资助研究赠款。培训活动将通过提供指导，学术培训，实践经验和咨询来补充研究目标。该提案与健康有关，因为非洲加勒比海的美国青年面临包括艾滋病毒/艾滋病在内的性传播疾病的风险。安全选择干预措施强调禁欲，但也教会他们如何决定进行性活跃，以做出负责任的决定。这样，青少年可以消除性传播的艾滋病毒/艾滋病的风险。教会一直是许多加勒比家庭的强大影响力，研究人员未能实现性行为的变化。这种描述性比较的研究设计将从现有的干预措施中开发和测试基于教会的，理论驱动的和特定于文化的干预措施。该研究将使用便利样本利用基于社区的参与方法。将进行两个单独的焦点小组（10个母亲和10个女儿），以获取特定于文化的信息，这些信息将用于定制现有干预措施。在“ ACT”阶段，将实施量身定制的干预措施，并将评估可行性和可接受性。该研究的前提是使用定量和定性方法全面地识别风险行为的特定文化决定因素，以产生可直接应用于实践和开发针对安全选择的研究计划，以减少HIV/AIDS的方法。未来研究的目的是为非洲加勒比海的美国人确定和实施具有文化适合的艾滋病毒/艾滋病干预策略。