Parental Criminal Justice Involvement & Substance Use among Puerto Rican Youth

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目是响应RFA-DA-10-015：新研究者成瘾研究（SOAR）的支持机会（R 03）。我们的计划是追求一项研究计划，这将提供有关前所未有的上升在监禁的特点，美国在过去30年的影响关键信息，使父母参与刑事司法系统（CJSI）在弱势青年的生活中的共同事件。 我们提出了一项试点研究，具体目标如下：目标1：证明在五年后找到并重新联系参加Boricua青年研究的家庭的可行性（BYS; R 01 MH 56401; PI：Bird），同时居住在南布朗克斯，父母中至少有一人参与刑事司法系统（CJSI），以及年龄性别匹配的对照样本;以及目标2：检查可能的效应量范围，这些效应量代表了居住在南布朗克斯的波多黎各背景的青少年和年轻人随时间推移父母CJSI和酒精使用之间的关系。初步研究样本将包括父母一方患有CJSI的南布朗克斯BYS参与者（N=145）和父母从未参与过CJS的匹配组参与者（N=145）。由于BYS设计，初步研究CJSI子样本将代表2000年居住在南布朗克斯的5 - 13岁波多黎各背景儿童。将获得有关参与者位置、饮酒和父母CJSI的最新信息。SOAR拟议的试点研究将采用与RFMH-OMH试点研究（PI：CS Duarte）中目前使用的方法类似的跟踪方法，但它将针对不同的BYS子样本，并将包括对青少年饮酒和父母CJSI的评估。BYS包括南布朗克斯和圣胡安、波多黎各（N= 2，491）儿童的三波数据（2001年至2004年的年度评估），使用结构诊断访谈评估物质使用/滥用和精神疾病以及广泛的风险/保护因素。 这一试点信息的目的是支持更全面的评估父母CJSI和酒精滥用之间的关系，在这个样本中，这将是唯一的解决早期前兆直接通知预防干预措施的人口高度需要。这样的应用程序将密切联系到NIDA资助的纵向研究计划，评估父母CJSI的影响，也由我们的研究小组进行，目前正在南布朗克斯（R 01 DA 023733和R 01 DA 024029，PI：CW霍文，Co-I：CS杜阿尔特）。 公共卫生相关性：在过去30年中，美国监禁人数的空前增加可能对家庭有害，导致药物滥用和精神疾病的代际传播。拟议项目将产生试点数据，以支持继续对信息量很大的样本进行纵向评估。在少数群体样本中，重点关注父母参与刑事司法系统和儿童饮酒的影响，是为最需要的人设计适当干预措施的关键一步。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project is in response to RFA-DA-10-015: Support Opportunity for Addiction Research (SOAR) for New Investigators (R03). Our plan is to pursue a research program which will provide key information about the impact of the unprecedented rise in incarceration which has characterized the US over the past 30 years, making parental involvement with the criminal justice system (CJSI) a common event in the lives of disadvantaged youth. We propose a pilot study with the following specific aims: Aim 1: Demonstrate the feasibility of locating and re-contacting, after 5 years, families who participated in the Boricua Youth Study (BYS; R01 MH56401; PI: Bird) while living in the South Bronx with at least a parent with criminal justice system involvement (CJSI) and a age-gender matched control sample; and Aim 2: Examine the range of possible effect sizes representing the relationship between parental CJSI and alcohol use over time by adolescents and young adults of Puerto Rican background living in the South Bronx. The pilot study sample will include South Bronx BYS participants who had a parent with CJSI (N=145) and a matched group of participants whose parents had never been involved with the CJS (N=145). Because of the BYS design, the pilot study CJSI subsample will be representative of children of Puerto Rican background 5 - 13 years old living in the South Bronx in 2000. Updated information about participants' location, alcohol use and parental CJSI will be obtained. The SOAR proposed pilot study will apply a tracking methodology similar to the one currently being used in the RFMH-OMH pilot study (PI: CS Duarte), but it will target a different BYS subsample and will include the assessment of youth alcohol use and parental CJSI. The BYS included three waves of data (yearly assessments from 2001 to 2004) of children in the South Bronx and San Juan, Puerto Rico (N=2,491) using a structure diagnostic interview to assess substance use/abuse and psychiatric disorders together with a wide range of risk/protective factors. The purpose of this pilot information is to support a more comprehensive assessment of the relationship between parental CJSI and alcohol abuse in this sample, which will uniquely address early precursors directly informing preventive interventions for a population highly in need. Such an application will be closely linked to a NIDA funded longitudinal research program assessing the impact of parental CJSI also conducted by our research group and currently underway in the South Bronx (R01 DA023733 and R01 DA024029, PI: CW Hoven, Co-I: CS Duarte). PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The unprecedented rise in incarceration in the US during the last 30 years may be harmful to families, contributing to the intergenerational transmission of substance abuse and psychiatric disorders. The proposed project will generate pilot data to support the continuation of the longitudinal assessment of a highly informative sample. The focus on the impact of parental criminal justice system involvement and child alcohol use in a minority sample is a key step towards designing appropriate interventions for those most in need.