TRENDS IN ALCOHOL MISUSE AMONG MINORITY ADOLESCENTS

申请者摘要：学龄期的种族/少数民族青年是 相当大且不断增加的美国人口比例，但我们 对酒精和其他物质的趋势和预测因素的理解 使用以白色为主的样品。大多数调查都没有 包括大量种族/族裔青年样本；因此，预防 针对少数族裔年轻人的努力往往基于这样的假设 不同种族/民族之间的使用模式是相同的 这些是对整个人口的影响。成本效益，次要 建议进行数据分析，以深入研究#年的趋势 少数民族人群酒精及相关物质滥用模式调查 在过去的十年里，5-12年级的学生。拟议的研究 包括来自三个可比较的酒精使用横断面调查的数据， 在具有代表性的大样本中吸烟和非法药物使用 纽约州7-12年级学生在1983、1990和1994年的 (NS=27,335，23,860和19,321)。鉴于纽约的种族多样性 国家和大NS，所有的种族/少数民族都很好 在这些样本中表现出来的。例如，1994年的青少年调查 包括大约1200名美洲印第安人，1000名西印度人，1800人 非洲裔美国人和3000名西班牙裔美国人。拟议的研究还将 包括对两个5-6级可比代表性样本的分析 1990年和1994年调查的学生，包括大约10,000名学生 在每个样本中。将与全国的调查结果进行比较。在……里面 除了分析趋势外，研究的进一步目的是 确定：保护因素在种族/少数民族群体中的趋势 关于年轻人；酗酒和酗酒之间的关系的趋势 其他青少年问题行为；这些行为的地理差异 趋势；接触学校预防方案的趋势和潜力 少数民族青少年的求助行为。建议的方法 包括使用多变量统计技术，包括逻辑分析 回归模型和对数线性模型。这些发现将直接与 制定更有效的预防和干预计划 少数族裔青年。

APPLICANT'S ABSTRACT: School-aged racial/ethnic minority youth are a substantial and increasing proportion of the U.S. population, yet our understanding of the trends and predictors of alcohol and other substance use are based on predominantly white samples. Most surveys have not included large sub-samples of racial/ethnic youth; consequently, prevention efforts aimed at minority young people are often based on the assumption that the patterns of use among various racial/ethnic groups are the same as those for the population as a whole. Cost-effectiveness, secondary data-analysis is proposed to carry out an in-depth study of the trends in the patterns of alcohol and related substance misuse among ethnic minority school students in grades 5-12 over the past decade. The proposed research includes data from three comparable cross-sectional surveys of alcohol use, cigarette smoking, and illicit drug use among large, representative samples of 7-12th grade students in New York State in 1983, 1990 and 1994 (Ns=27,335, 23,860, and 19,321). Given the ethnic diversity in New York State and the large Ns, all racial/ethnic minority groups are well represented in these samples. For example, the 1994 adolescent survey includes approximately 1,200 American Indians, 1,000 West Indians, 1,800 African Americans, and 3,000 Hispanics. The proposed research will also include analysis of two comparable representative samples of 5-6 grade students surveyed in 1990 and 1994, including approximately 10,000 students in each sample. Comparisons will be made with national findings. In addition to the analysis of trends, further aims of the study are to determine: trends in protective factors among racial/ethnic minority groups of young people; trends in the relationships between alcohol misuse and other adolescent problem behaviors; the geographic variations in these trends; and trends in exposure to school prevention programs and potential help-seeking behaviors of minority adolescents. The proposed methods include the use of multivariate statistical techniques, including logistic regression and log-linear models. The findings will be directly relevant to the development of more effective prevention and intervention programs for minority youth.