NCRE II: Native Children's Development in the Context of Substance Use

NCRE II：药物使用背景下的本土儿童发展

• 批准号: 7914751
• 负责人: Michelle C Sarche
• 金额: $ 2.2万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-04-01 至 2015-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7914751
• 关键词: Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent Development; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; American Indian and Alaska Native; Attention; Canada; Child; Child Development; Childhood; Communities; Dependence; Development; Drug abuse; Environment; Extended Family; Fostering; Hawaiian population; Household; Indigenous; Intervention; Literature; Mentorship; North America; Outcome; Population; Preventive Intervention; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Risk Marker; Science; Shapes; Substance abuse problem; Time; Vacuum; Work; experience; meetings; native youth; next generation; peer; public health relevance; social; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Native communities in North America (American Indian, Alaska Native, Canadian First Nations, and Native Hawaiian) often experience significant disparities in substance use problems, including abuse and dependence. Too many children in these communities grow up in households where substance abuse is the norm, putting early development at risk. Later, Native adolescents are at elevated risk for early substance use compared to their peers in other groups, and early use is a clear marker of risk for prolonged and problematic use. Thus, substance use in Native communities is both a potential influence on child development and a potential outcome of development gone awry. A complete literature on development in Native context cannot reasonably ignore substance use. This reality has not escaped the attention of the Native Children's Research Exchange (NCRE). Formed in 2008, NCRE has hosted two meetings (2008 and 2009) in which scholars working with Native children and adolescents have come together to review research and discuss the most pressing agendas for developmental science in Native cultures. In round-table discussions at NCRE meetings, the context of substance use and abuse has repeatedly been brought to the fore. Many NCRE scholars are themselves directly engaged in substance use research; many others recognize the implications of substance use disparities for their work and, in turn, the implications of their work for substance use intervention. One outgrowth of conversations among NCRE scholars has been the recognition that we cannot study indigenous child development in a vacuum, but must place it within the cultural, social, socioeconomic, and physical environmental contexts that shape development. Substance use is one context that characterizes the experience of many Native children. Thus, we propose to focus a set of five annual meetings on the interplay between substance use and child development in Native populations. In these meetings, we will address three specific aims: 1) Facilitate interaction and exchange of information among scholars studying child development in Native communities, with a particular focus on research on the effects of contextual substance use (e.g., parental use, substance use within the extended family and community, peer substance use) and the development of substance abuse problems in the next generation; 2) foster collaborative work to advance Native child development research related to substance use; and 3) provide mentorship to researchers new to developmental research in Native communities and encourage these researchers to consider the implications of substance use disparities for their research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Native children and adolescents in North America often grow up in contexts characterized by high levels of substance use and are at relatively greater risk than others in the U.S. for developing drug abuse problems as they move through childhood and adolescence. Better understanding of both the impact of substance use environments on child development and the developmental course of substance problems in childhood and adolescence is needed to inform optimal timing of and strategies for preventive interventions. Meetings of the Native Children's Research Exchange - a cadre of scholars from around the U.S. and Canada whose work focuses on Native child and adolescent development - represent an optimal venue for advancing research on the interrelationships between substance use and development for Native youth.

描述(由申请人提供)：北美的土著社区(美洲印第安人、阿拉斯加土著、加拿大第一民族和夏威夷土著)在药物使用问题上经常存在显著差异，包括滥用和依赖。在这些社区，太多的儿童在药物滥用成为常态的家庭中长大，这将早期发展置于危险之中。后来，与其他群体中的同龄人相比，土著青少年早期使用药物的风险更高，早期使用是长期和有问题的使用风险的明显标志。因此，土著社区的物质使用既是对儿童发展的潜在影响，也是发展出错的潜在结果。一部关于原住民发展的完整文献不能合理地忽视物质的使用。这一现实并没有逃脱土著儿童研究交流中心(NCRE)的注意。NCRE成立于2008年，已经主办了两次会议(2008年和2009年)，研究土著儿童和青少年的学者齐聚一堂，审查研究并讨论土著文化中发展科学最紧迫的议程。在NCRE会议的圆桌讨论中，药物使用和滥用的背景一再被提上议事日程。许多NCRE学者本身直接从事物质使用研究；其他许多人认识到物质使用差异对他们的工作的影响，进而认识到他们的工作对物质使用干预的影响。NCRE学者之间对话的一个结果是认识到，我们不能在真空中研究土著儿童的发展，而必须将其置于塑造发展的文化、社会、社会经济和自然环境背景中。物质使用是许多土著儿童经历的一个特征。因此，我们建议将一系列五个年度会议的重点放在土著人口中物质使用和儿童发展之间的相互作用上。在这些会议上，我们将讨论三个具体目标：1)促进研究土著社区儿童发展的学者之间的互动和信息交流，特别侧重研究背景药物使用(例如，父母使用、大家庭和社区内的药物使用、同伴药物使用)的影响以及下一代药物滥用问题的发展；2)促进合作，以推动与药物使用有关的土著儿童发展研究；以及3)为土著社区发展研究的新手提供指导，并鼓励这些研究人员考虑药物使用差异对其研究的影响。 与公共卫生相关：北美土生土长的儿童和青少年通常在药物使用水平高的环境中长大，在经历童年和青春期的过程中，他们出现药物滥用问题的风险比美国其他人相对更大。需要更好地了解物质使用环境对儿童发展的影响以及儿童和青少年时期物质问题的发展过程，以便了解预防干预的最佳时机和战略。原住民儿童研究交流中心是来自美国和加拿大各地的一批学者，他们的工作重点是原住民儿童和青少年的发展，该交流中心的会议是推进原住民青少年物质使用和发展之间相互关系研究的最佳场所。