Ecological Factors and Drug Use of Native Hawaiian Youth

描述（由申请人提供）：本K 0 I提案的长期目标是发展申请人在物质使用和土著青年人口领域的研究能力（例如，美国印第安青年，夏威夷土著青年），最终使他能够成功地开发和进行联邦资助的药物和酒精研究与这些人口。具体而言，该申请提出了一个指导，培训，课程和监督研究的结构化计划，以提高申请人进行大规模，高质量定量和定性研究的能力。该KOI提案将通过以下具体目标实现其目标：AIM 1是提供一个结构化的计划：（a）由一个国家承认的、联邦资助的研究人员小组提供指导，（B）理论、方法和研究设计领域的课程，（c）对全国选定的药物滥用研究中心进行培训访问，了解与理论、方法、研究设计，项目管理和实施，以及赠款写作。目的2是为申请人提供一个监督的研究经验，重点是检查生态因素，有助于夏威夷土著青少年的药物和酒精使用。西南跨学科研究联合会（由NIDA/Nffl资助，R24 DAI 3937-01）的美国印第安青年试点项目中使用的方法的修改复制将被用来调查与夏威夷土著青年的物质使用相关的生态因素。该项目的方法包括五个相互关联的阶段：（a）研究和课程，（B）评估环境需求，（c）建立社会有效性，（d）反应枚举，（e）社会能力评价。目的3是设计一个R21或R 01应用程序（将在本奖项结束时提交），以开发和试点测试一个以文化为基础的药物预防课程，重点是夏威夷土著青少年在学校环境中。长期研究目标是结合西南跨学科研究联合会正在开发的美国印第安青年毒品预防课程来分析课程，以研究“泛本土”毒品预防原则（即，夏威夷土著人和美洲印第安人青少年之间关于吸毒和酗酒的共同核心规范）以及针对土著人的药物滥用预防原则。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of this K0I proposal is to develop the applicant's research capabilities in the area of substance use and Indigenous youth populations (e.g., American Indian youth, Native Hawaiian youth), ultimately allowing him to successfully develop and conduct federally-funded drug and alcohol research with these populations. Specifically, this application proposes a structured program of mentoring, training, coursework, and supervised research to increase the applicant's capacity to conduct large-scale, high-quality quantitative and qualitative research. This KOI proposal will accomplish its objectives through the following specific aims: AIM 1 is to provide a structured program of: (a) Mentoring by a team of nationally recognized, federally funded researchers, (b) Coursework in the areas of theory, methodology, and research design, and (c) Training visits to selected substance abuse research centers across the country to learn about issues related to theory, methodology, research design, project management and implementation, and grant writing. AIM 2 is to provide the applicant with a supervised research experience focused on examining the ecological factors that contribute to the drug and alcohol use of Native Hawaiian adolescents. A modified replication of the methodology used in American Indian Youth Pilot Project of the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Consortium (funded by NIDA/Nffl, R24 DAI 3937-01) will be used to investigate the ecological factors related to Native Hawaiian youths' substance use. The methodology for this project consists of five interrelated stages: (a) Research and coursework, (b) assessing environmental demands, (c) establishing social validity, (d) response enumeration, and (e) evaluation of social competence. AIM 3 is to design an R21 or R01 application (to be submitted at the end of this award) to develop and pilot test a culturally grounded drug prevention curriculum focused on Native Hawaiian adolescents in the school setting. The long term research goal is to analyze the curriculum in conjunction with the American Indian youth drug prevention curriculum being developed through the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Consortium, in order to examine "pan- Native" drug prevention principles (i.e., the shared core of norms related to drug and alcohol use between Native Hawaiian and American Indian adolescents) as well as the Native-specific substance abuse prevention principles.