Disadvantaged Youth and Alcohol Abuse Prevention

这项研究将扩展在一项关于个人和家庭干预措施的随机试验中开始的工作，以防止经济困难的城市青年饮酒。在该试验中，来自大纽约市、新泽西和特拉华州的大约500名早期青少年被合作社区站点分配到三个组中的一个：青少年干预、青少年干预加父母干预或对照。两个干预组的青少年都完成了由CD-ROM提供的酒精滥用预防计划的初始和增强课程。第二干预组的青少年家长通过录像带、通讯和讲习班获得了支持青少年干预的内容。所有的年轻人都被跟踪了3年。迄今为止的调查结果证明了青年干预的有效性，并显示出适度的额外好处，为青少年的父母接受干预。 在这项工作的基础上，继续研究将纵向跟踪青少年，因为他们进入酒精使用的高风险年份，为青少年和家长开发和提供助推器会议，并通过研究臂，干预剂量，性别和种族变量分析计划效果。还将探讨中介变量对干预结果的贡献。继续研究中的年度随访测量将包括新的量表，以评估青少年因其成熟而增加的饮酒风险，以及在当前研究中的前测、后测和1年、2年和3年随访测量中使用的先前量表。已制定跟踪规定，以便在供资的第二个5年内保留样本。

The research will extend work begun in a randomized trial of individual and family interventions for preventing alcohol use among economically disadvantaged urban youth. In that trial, roughly 500 early adolescents from greater New York City, New Jersey, and Delaware were assigned by collaborating community site to one of three arms: youth intervention, youth intervention plus parent intervention, or control. Youths in both intervention arms completed initial and booster sessions of an alcohol abuse prevention program delivered by CD-ROM. Parents of youths in the second intervention arm received content to support youth intervention via videotape, newsletters, and a workshop. All youths were followed for 3 years. Findings to date demonstrate the efficacy of youth intervention and show modest added benefits for youths whose parents received intervention. Building on this work, the continuation study will longitudinally track youths as they enter the high-risk years for alcohol use, develop and deliver boosters sessions for youths and parents, and analyze program effects by study arm, intervention dosage, and gender and ethnic-racial variables. The contribution of mediating variables to intervention outcomes will also be explored. Annual follow-up measurements in the continuation study will include new scales to assess youths' increased risks for alcohol use by virtue of their maturation and prior scales administered at pretest, posttest, and 1-, 2-, and 3-year follow-up measurements in the current study. Tracking provisions are in place to retain the sample throughout the second 5 years of funding.