Understanding and Preventing Early Adult Drug Abuse

描述(由申请者提供)：这项申请建议对999名青年的多种族样本进行纵向跟踪调查，直至成年。青少年评估将包括对药物滥用、犯罪行为、不安全性行为和其他已知的导致严重适应不良的风险因素(包括艾滋病毒/艾滋病和心理疾病)的访谈和问卷测量。这个样本最初是从三所公立学校的六年级学生中招募的。青少年及其家庭在个人水平上被随机分为青少年过渡计划(ATP)，这是一种嵌入公立学校环境操作系统中的多层次、以家庭为中心的干预措施(Dishion&Kavanagh，2003)，或不接受治疗的对照组。参与的青少年最初在6年级、7年级和8年级使用自我报告调查、同伴提名、教师评级和学校记录以及9年级的自我报告调查进行评估。还收集了观察到的家庭和同伴互动的录像带；包括青少年、家长和教师报告的多代理人评估小组；以及青少年法庭记录。目标青年也接受了CIDI诊断性访谈。这一阶段研究的目标是通过实现以下两个目标来扩大我们对青少年和青少年药物滥用和其他相关问题行为的起因和升级的理解：(1)评估和报告参与、调解和ATP干预的长期有效性的模式；(2)根据与第一个目标相关的分析所获得的信息，改进和测试药物滥用、问题行为、艾滋病毒/艾滋病危险行为和青少年精神病理学的生态模型。假设获得的关于治疗效果的信息，无论是积极的、消极的还是中性的，都将有助于增加我们对与早期成人预后不良相关的机制的集体理解，以及我们对谁从ATP等预防计划中受益、谁不受益的知识。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes a longitudinal follow-up of a multi-ethnic sample of 999 youth into young adulthood. Young adult assessments will include interview and questionnaire measurement of drug abuse, criminality, unsafe sexual behaviors, and other risk factors known to contribute to serious maladjustment including HIV/AIDS and psychological illness. This sample was originally recruited from 6th graders at three public schools. Youth and their families were randomized at the individual level to the Adolescent Transitions Program (ATP), a multilevel, family-centered intervention embedded within the operating system of the public school environment (Dishion & Kavanagh, 2003), or to a no treatment control group. Participating youth were originally assessed in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades using self-report surveys, peer nominations, teacher ratings, and school records, as well as self-report surveys in the 9th grade. Videotapes of observed family and peer interactions; a multi-agent assessment battery including youth, parent, and teacher reports; and youth court records were also collected. Target youth also were administered the CIDI diagnostic interview. The goal of this phase of research is to expand our understanding of the etiology of the onset and escalation of adolescent and young adult drug abuse and other related problem behaviors by accomplishing the following two objectives: (1) evaluate and report the patterns of engagement, mediation, and long-term effectiveness of the ATP intervention; and (2) refine and test an ecological model of drug abuse, problem behavior, HIV/AIDS risk behavior, and young adult psychopathology based on information obtained from the analyses related to the first objective. It is hypothesized that information gained about treatment effects, whether positive, negative, or neutral will serve to increase our collective understanding of the mechanisms related to poor early adult outcomes and our knowledge of who benefits from prevention programs such as the ATP and who does not.