Cuqyun: Predictors of Alaska Native Adolescent Sobriety and Reasons for Living

描述（由申请人提供）：阿拉斯加原住民（AN）青年面临与酒精和自杀相关的重大健康差异。Cuqyun（测量工具）是一个发展性项目，其长期目标是通过纲领性研究，开展一项预防青少年酗酒和自杀的试验，以解决这些健康差异。该项目建立在先前对AN成人的研究基础上，该研究使用基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）方法和基于优势的积极心理学重点来研究AN清醒。Cuqyun建议将这一研究扩展到a青少年酒精滥用和自杀的重要变量。该项目有三个具体目标：

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Alaska Native (AN) youth face significant health disparities associated with alcohol and suicide. Cuqyun (measuring tool) is a developmental project whose long term objective is programmatic research leading to an AN youth alcohol and suicide prevention trial to address these health disparities. The project builds on previous work with AN adults that used a community based participatory research (CBPR) methodology and a strengths-based, positive psychology focus in study of AN sobriety. Cuqyun proposes to extend this research to important variables in AN adolescent alcohol abuse and suicide. The project has three specific aims: (1) Culturally adapt for AN adolescents measures of variables associated with sobriety and reasons for living using a CBPR approach to measurement adaptation. (2) Test these adapted measures' psychometric properties with a sample of 475 AN adolescents age 3-18. (3) Test the predictive validity of these measures in an emically-derived model of AN sobriety and reasons for living suggested by previous CBPR. This final aim will also provide an empirical test of the multilevel pathway model of sobriety on which the proposed preventive intervention program of research is based. The measures that Cuqyun seeks to culturally adapt are variables conceived as proximal outcomes for specific intervention components within a prevention trial. Two additional variables are conceived as ultimate outcome variables. This developmental work will (1) provide necessary foundations for a prevention trial with Alaska Native youth, (2) advance CBPR methods with tribal communities in the area of measurement development, and (3) enhance our understanding of culture specific protective factors among Alaska Native and other ethnic minority groups to address health disparities.