DRUG USE IN RURAL ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES

项目二：该项目将首次确定农村少数民族社区的学校和社区特征与吸毒率之间的关系是否存在差异。该项目的第一部分是二次数据分析，结合了来自两个来源的现有数据，(1)对全美180个农村社区进行分层随机抽样的调查，(2)对30个非裔美国农村社区和30个墨西哥裔美国农村社区的调查。这些社区的调查提供了7至12年级学生吸毒的数据，以及吸毒和文化认同的社会和心理风险因素的数据。关于学校和社区特点的信息将从人口普查(包括过去的人口普查和将在本项目期间进行的一次人口普查)、学校数据手册和对每个社区主要信息提供人的电话访谈中获得。除新的人口普查外，第一阶段的数据收集工作，即第二次数据分析，将在本项目开始时完成。社区特征包括农村和农村、贫困、教育水平和辍学、犯罪和暴力、社区不稳定、社区凝聚力和依恋、产业结构、家庭解体、家庭凝聚力和大家庭、宗教异质性、种族异质性、年龄结构以及性别正常和角色。将使用分层线性模型来确定社区特征如何与毒品使用相关，以及这些关系在少数民族社区中可能有何不同。第二阶段的研究将首次确定社区特征如何与农村社区吸毒率的变化有关，以及是否与少数民族社区有关。这项研究将涉及两波重新调查，一次是在第一次调查后三年，另一次是五年。重新调查的将是30个非裔美国人和30个墨西哥裔美国人社区，以及30个非少数族裔社区的匹配样本。所有海浪的测量和测量方法都是相同的。将使用分层线性模型来确定这些农村社区的特征如何与药物使用随时间的变化有关。

Project II: This project will determine, for the first time, whether there are differences in how school and community characteristics are related to drug use rates in rural ethnic minority communities. The first part of the project is a secondary data analysis, combining existing data from two sources, (1) a survey of a stratified random sample of 180 rural communities across the U.S. and (2) a survey of 30 rural African American and 30 rural Mexican American communities. The surveys in these communities provide data on drug use by 7th through 12th grade students, as well as data on social and psychological risk factors for drug use and cultural identification. Information on school and community characteristics will be available from the census (including the past census and a census that will be run during the course of this project), from the School Data Book and from telephone interviews with key informants in each community. Except for the new census, the data collection for phase I, the secondary data analysis, will be complete by the time this project begins. Community characteristics include rurality and is9lation, poverty, education level and dropout, crime and violence, community instability, community cohesiveness and attachment, industrial structure, family disorganization, family cohesiveness and extended family, religious heterogeneity, ethnic heterogeneity, age structure, and gender normals and roles. Hierarchical linear modeling will be used to determine how community characteristics relate to drug use and how these relationships may differ in ethnic minority communities. The second phase of the study will determine, for the first time, how community characteristics relate to change in drug use rates in rural communities and whether there are differences related to ethnic minority communities. The study will involve two waves of re-surveying, one three years and one five years after the initial survey. Resurveyed will be the 30 African American and 30 Mexican American communities and a matched sample of 30 non-minority communities. The surveys and survey methods are identical for all waves. Hierarchical linear modeling will be used to determine how characteristics of these rural communities related to changes in drug use over time.