URBAN AMERICAN INDIAN ADOLESCENT ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE

美国印第安人研究小组在 加州大学精神病学和行为科学 华盛顿医学院建议调查 美国城市印第安人青少年酒精和酒精的发展 药物使用/滥用，并找出有用的新知识 制定预防措施，预防问题饮酒和 吸毒的美国印第安人青年。这个前瞻性的， 多年多评价的纵向队列设计 由350名城市美国印第安人青少年和他们的 母亲或主要照顾者从总人口中抽取 600美元。数据还将从另外两个交叉点收集 横断面样本，每个样本包括100个六年级和九年级 受试者和他们的母亲。在五年期间，我们将 评估酗酒和吸毒的前因和后果 通过收集以下九个领域(研究领域)的数据 兴趣)：酗酒、吸毒、社会人口史、 神经心理筛查，学校学术，内化， 外化、家庭和同伴环境与家族史 酗酒的人。具体来说，该项目的目标是：1) 描述饮酒、吸毒的流行率和随时间的变化 使用和有问题的饮酒行为；2)调查 物质启动和问题饮酒开始的过程 确定促进或 抑制引发和滥用；3)开发一种屏蔽电池，用于 美国城市居民酗酒和吸毒的早期识别 印度青少年；以及4)继续在临床上传播 向美国境内的医疗保健提供者提供相关信息 印度、学术和社会服务体系。建议数 该项目代表了我们在科学研究方面的下一步 从一个角度看美国印第安人的酗酒和吸毒 仍然与印度人的临床关切相关，同时依赖于 在印度参与该项目的所有阶段后。这个 从项目中获得的知识对 发展可降低艾滋病患病率的服务 美国印第安人的酒精和药物滥用情况 在酗酒和吸毒风险最大的美国。这 该项目启动了一项长期的自然历史研究 美国印第安人城市人口中的酒精和毒品使用情况。

The American Indian Research Group in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine proposes to investigate the development of urban American Indian adolescent alcohol and drug use/abuse, and to identify new knowledge useful in developing prevention interventions with problem drinking and drug abusing American Indian youth. This prospective, longitudinal cohort design with multiple assessments across years is comprised of 350 urban American Indian adolescents and their mothers or primary caretakers drawn from a total population of 600. Data also will be collected from two additional cross- sectional samples, each comprised of 100 sixth and ninth grade subjects and their mothers. During a five year period, we will assess the antecedents and consequences to alcohol and drug use by collecting data in the following nine domains (areas of research interest): alcohol use, drug use, sociodemographic history, neuropsychological screening, school-academic, internalization, externalization, family and peer environment, and family history of alcohol use. Specifically, the project's aims are: 1) To describe the prevalence and change over time of alcohol use, drug use, and problem drinking behaviors; 2) To investigate the processes of substance initiation and problem drinking onset by identifying the risk and protective variables that promote or inhibit initiation and abuse; 3) To develop a screening battery for early identification of alcohol and drug abusing urban American Indian adolescents; and 4) To continue to disseminate clinically relevant information to health care providers within American Indian, academic, and social service systems. The proposed project represents our next step in the scientific study of American Indian alcohol and drug abuse from a perspective that remains relevant to the clinical concerns of Indians while relying upon Indian participation through all phases of the project. The knowledge to be gained from the project is vital to the development of services which can reduce the prevalence of alcohol and drug abuse among American Indians, the ethnic group in America at greatest risk for alcoholism and drug abuse. This project initiates a long term study of the natural history of alcohol and drug use within an urban American Indian population.