Research Project

这项研究的长期目标是开发有效和可持续的手段，通过以社区为基础的家庭技能培训，防止拉丁美洲青年吸烟和使用其他药物。虽然家庭技能培训已被证明是预防青少年使用药物的有效手段，但很少有干预措施专门针对拉丁美洲家庭。此外，这些项目中很少有是利用基于社区的参与性研究过程开发的，这种研究过程可能会增加这种项目的地方相关性、适当性和可持续性的可能性。在过去的两年里，我们的伙伴关系使移民拉丁裔家庭参与了一项可行性研究，该研究是与以下机构合作设计和实施的一项循证育儿课程： 拉丁裔家庭和拉丁裔社区服务机构。目前拟议项目的主要目的是评估这八个会议的有效性家庭技能干预针对移民拉丁美洲家庭的中学年龄的青年作为交付与八个社区组织的伙伴关系。本研究为随机对照试验，对照组为延迟治疗条件。随机化将在机构内的家庭层面进行。具体目标是首先确定这种家庭为基础的有效性 干预措施，以减少烟草和其他物质的使用意图，并减少烟草意图的增长轨迹在中学年龄（10-14）拉丁美洲青年利用社区为基础的随机对照试验。我们的第二个目的是评估干预对拉丁裔父母与青少年的关系和养育行为的影响。最后，我们的第三个和探索性的目标是评估CBPR的伙伴关系，操作和上下文因素，有助于成功实施的干预在八个社区网站参与合作项目。这项研究在许多方面都是创新的：1）它解决了烟草和其他物质使用预防的一个大的和不断增长的移民人口在 美国; 2）我们希望拟议的研究提供一个与不同社区机构合作设计，实施和评估物质使用预防干预措施的模式。

The long term goal ofthis research is to develop effective and sustainable means to prevent tobacco and other substance use among Latino youth through community-based family-skills training. Though family-skills training has proven to be an effective means to prevent substance use in adolescents, few interventions have specifically targeted Latino families. Furthermore, few of these have been developed using a community based participatory research process that may increase the local relevance, appropriateness, and likelihood of sustainability of such a project. Over the last two years our partnership has engaged immigrant Latino families in a feasibility study of a evidence-informed parenting curriculum designed and conducted in collaboration with Latino families and Latino-servitig community agencies. The primary aim of the current proposed project is to evaluate the effectiveness ofthis eight session family-skills intervention directed at immigrant Latino families of middle school aged youth as delivered in partnership with eight community organizations. This study is a randomized controlled trial with a delayed treatment condition for the control group. Randomization will occur at the level ofthe family within the agencies. Specific aims are first to determine the effectiveness of this familybased intervention to reduce tobacco and other substance use intention and decrease the growth trajectory of tobacco intention in middle school aged (10-14) Latino youth utilizing a community-based randomized controlled trial. Our Secondary Aim is to assess the effect ofthe intervention on the Latino parent-youth relationship and parenting practices. Finally, our third and exploratory aim is to assess CBPR partnership, operational, and contextual factors that contribute to the successful implementation ofthe intervention at the eight community sites participating in the collaborative project. This study is innovative in a number of ways: 1) it addresses tobacco and other substance use prevention for a large and growing immigrant population in the United States; 2) we expect the proposed study to provide a model for collaborative design, implementation, and evaluation of substance use prevention interventions with diverse community agencies.