DISADVANTAGED YOUTH AND ALCOHOL ABUSE PREVENTION

这项研究将开发和测试干预策略，以预防 酒精和其他物质在高危青年中的滥用。这项研究已经 三个目标：1)制定预防酒精和 高危青少年中的其他药物滥用。2)在 在社区环境中对高危青年进行的随机试验。3) 开发和提供助推器会议，以延长和扩大干预 效果。4)对策略进行纵向跟踪评估 数据收集。5)分析个体层面之间的关系 青年和家长参与者的变量。 拟议的研究将分三个阶段进行。在10个月内 准备阶段，调查人员将制定干预措施并 测量协议，抽取具有代表性的社区样本 参加学习的组织，招募和培训 干预性递送媒介。为期12个月的实施阶段将 启动临床试验的现场操作，包括预测试， 干预交付、过程数据收集和后测。一个 研究的最后几年的后续阶段将包括后续行动。 测试、助推器会话交付和数据分析。 这项研究的酒精和其他物质滥用预防策略 包括让高危人群参与的技能干预 社区环境中的青年和家长增强的技能干预 这将有助于家庭成员支持年轻人降低风险的努力。 通过让家长参与以技能为基础的干预，预防 协议将利用年轻人环境中的自然资源来培育 并继续努力避免酗酒和其他问题 滥用药物。

This study will develop and test intervention strategies to prevent alcohol and other substance abuse among high-risk youth. The study has three aims: 1) Develop intervention strategies to prevent alcohol and other substance abuse among high-risk youth. 2) Test the strategies in a randomized trial with high-risk youth in community settings. 3) Develop and deliver booster sessions to extend and expand intervention effects. 4) Longitudinally evaluate the strategies through follow-up data collections. 5) Analyze relationships among individual-level variables for youth and parent participants. The proposed study will occur in three phases. In a 10-month preparation phase, the investigators will develop intervention and measurement protocols, draw a representative sample of community organizations for study participation, and recruit and train intervention delivery agents. A 12-month implementation phase will initiate field operations of a clinical trial, including pretesting, intervention delivery, process data collection, and posttesting. A follow-up phase in the last years of the study will involve follow-up testing, booster session delivery, and data analysis. The study's alcohol and other substance abuse prevention strategy includes skills interventions that will engage groups of high-risk youths in community settings, and parent-enhanced skills intervention that will help family members sustain youths' risk reduction efforts. By engaging parents in the skills-based intervention, the prevention protocol will tap natural resources in youths' environments to nurture and sustain their efforts to avoid problems with alcohol and other substance abuse.