Religious Coping and Drug Use/HIV Risk Behaviors in Latino Immigrants

本研究旨在研究（a）文化适应压力对近期拉丁裔移民的药物使用和艾滋病毒危险行为的影响，（b）宗教应对机制是否对这种关系有调节作用。要检验的中心假设是，特定的宗教应对机制会影响文化适应压力与拉丁裔移民的药物使用和艾滋病毒风险行为之间的关系。该研究将使用来自佛罗里达国际大学美国拉丁裔艾滋病毒/艾滋病和药物滥用研究中心进行的纵向研究的二次数据分析进行。在拟议的研究中将使用横截面设计。该样本预计将由 200 名参与者组成，这些参与者是从原始母研究的 520 名样本中抽取的。样本将包括 100 名男性和 100 名女性，年龄在 19 岁至 35 岁之间，目前居住在迈阿密戴德县。样本将在性别之间平均分配，以促进探索宗教应对方式调节文化适应压力与物质使用/艾滋病毒风险行为之间关系的跨性别差异的研究目标。所有参与者都是在美国居住不到两年的拉丁裔移民。参与者最近抵达美国是本次调查的一个独特且重要的组成部分，因为文化适应压力往往在移民的头两年达到最高。拟议的研究将分析通过面对面的纸/笔问卷调查收集的数据。访谈通常在参与者的家中进行，并录制音频以进行质量控制。拟议研究的分析将包括从文化适应压力、物质使用、艾滋病毒风险和宗教应对等方面收集的数据。仅使用具有良好心理测量特性的标准化量表。此外，五个量表中的三个已经验证了西班牙语版本。另外两项措施经历了彻底的翻译过程，包括翻译/回译、修改后的直接翻译以及语义和概念等效性检查。结构方程建模将是测试本研究中变量之间关系的数据分析的主要方法。

This study proposes to examine (a) the influence of acculturation stress on substance use and HIV-risk behaviors among recent Latino immigrants, (b) whether religious coping mechanisms have a moderating effect on that relationship. The central hypothesis to be tested is that specific religious coping mechanisms influence the relationship that acculturation stress has on the substance use and HIV-risk behaviors of Latino immigrants. The research will be conducted using secondary data analysis drawn from a longitudinal study done at Florida International University through the Center for Research on U.S. Latinos HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse. A cross sectional design will be used in the proposed research. The sample is expected to consist of a subset of 200 participants drawn from a total sample of 520 from the original parent study. The sample will include 100 men and 100 women between the ages of 19 and 35 who currently reside in Miami-Dade County. The sample will be divided equally between genders in order to facilitate the research aim of exploring variations across genders in the way that religious coping moderates the relationship between acculturation stress and substance use/HIV-risk behaviors. All participants will be Latino immigrants who have been living in the U.S. for less than two years. The participant's recent arrival to the U.S. is a unique and important component of this investigation as acculturation stress tends to be at its highest during the first two years of immigration. The proposed study will analyze data collected through face-to face administered paper/pencil questionnaires. Interviews were usually conducted in the participant' home and audio recorded for quality control purposes. The analyses for the proposed research will include data collected from scales on acculturation stress, substance use, HIV-risk, and religious coping. Only standardized scales with good psychometric properties were used. Additionally, three of the five scales have validated Spanish versions. The other two measures went through a thorough translation process including translation/back translation, modified direct translation, and checks for semantic and conceptual equivalence. Structural equation modeling will be the primary method of data analysis for testing relationships between variables in the proposed study.