Haitian Youth: Risk of Drug Use and HIV Infection

描述（由申请人提供）：随着艾滋病毒和艾滋病继续肆虐 美国的少数民族，这些群体的青少年成员 引起特别关注。海地青少年出现，根据信息 调查小组可获得的信息，可能会引起明显的艾滋病毒感染风险。 最近移民的情况，家庭重组， 健康信念和重新制定性价值观都有助于海地人 青少年的风险恶化，但迄今为止，这些风险还没有得到充分的 为防止进一步风险的努力提供必要的指导 在这个组里。拟议的研究将进行彻底的民族志 迈阿密/戴德县海地青年危险行为调查 使用人种学方法的初步调查揭示了风险模式 需要进一步和更深入的研究。 300名青少年的反应，年龄范围13-18，从已知的栖息地招募， 海地青年将提供有关社会人口特征的宝贵数据 并为开放式面试和其他类型的 深入研究。除了深入访谈外，研究小组还将 在自然栖息地对青年进行非正式观察，深入访谈 与家人和同龄人的焦点小组。以这种方式收集的材料将 记录、转录成电子文件、内容编码和分析 使用定性分析软件。对这些数据的分析将 提供有关性价值观及其 移民背景下的教育、海地青年的性别角色及其 与风险的关系，药物使用在风险中的作用，以及其他有助于 来确定这一人群的风险性质。这项研究的结果将 不仅指导预防方案的制定， 提供重要信息，以构建广泛应用的调查， 在迈阿密/戴德的海地社区的风险。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As HIV and AIDS continue to ravage minority populations in the United States, adolescent members of these groups attract particular concern. Haitian adolescents appear, based on information available to the investigative team, to incur notable risk of HIV infection. Circumstances of recent immigration, familial re-organization, pre-existing health beliefs, and re-formulation of sexual values all contribute to Haitian adolescent's worsening risk, but as yet these risks have not been adequately characterized to provide necessary guidance to efforts to prevent further risk in this group. The proposed study will be conducted thorough ethnographic investigation of risky behavior among Haitian Youth in Miami/Dade County. Preliminary investigations using ethnographic methods revealed patterns of risk among young Haitians that demand further and more in-depth examination. Responses of 300 adolescents, age range 13-18, recruited from known habitats of Haitian youth will provide valuable data about sociodemographic characteristics and provide an entryway for open-ended interviewing and other varieties of in-depth studies. In addition to in-depth interviews, the research team will conduct informal observations of youth in natural habitat, in-depth interviews with families and focus groups with peers. Materials collected in this way will be recorded, transcribed to electronic files, coded for content, and analyzed using software developed for qualitative analysis. Analyses of these data will provide the answers to research questions regarding sexual values and their formation in an immigrant setting, gender roles among Haitian youth and their relation to risk, the role of drug use in risk, and other questions that help to define the nature of risk in this population. Results from this study will serve not only to guide the formulation of prevention programs but also to provide important information in the construction of broadly applied surveys on risk in the Haitian community in Miami/Dade.