Ecological Factors and Drug Use of Native Hawaiian Youth

描述（由申请人提供）：本K0I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（例如，美洲印第安青年，夏威夷土著青年）领域的研究能力，最终使他能够成功地开发和开展联邦资助的针对这些人口的药物和酒精研究。具体来说，该申请提出了一个结构化的指导、培训、课程作业和监督研究计划，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：目标1是提供以下方面的结构化计划：(a)由国家认可的、联邦资助的研究人员组成的团队进行指导；(b)在理论、方法和研究设计领域开展课程；(c)对全国选定的药物滥用研究中心进行培训访问，以了解与理论、方法、研究设计、项目管理和实施以及拨款写作有关的问题。目标2是向申请人提供有监督的研究经验，重点是审查导致夏威夷土著青少年吸毒和酗酒的生态因素。西南跨学科研究联盟的美国印第安青年试点项目（由NIDA/Nffl资助，R24 DAI 3937-01）所使用的方法的改进复制将用于调查与夏威夷土著青年物质使用相关的生态因素。这个项目的方法包括五个相互关联的阶段：(a)研究和课程作业，(b)评估环境需求，(c)建立社会有效性，(d)回应枚举，(e)评估社会能力。目标3是设计一个R21或R01申请（将在本奖项结束时提交），以开发和试点测试一个以学校环境中的夏威夷土著青少年为重点的基于文化的毒品预防课程。长期研究目标是结合西南跨学科研究联合会正在编制的美洲印第安青年预防毒品课程来分析该课程，以便审查“泛土著”预防毒品原则（即夏威夷土著青少年和美洲印第安青少年之间有关吸毒和酗酒的共同核心规范）以及土著特有的预防药物滥用原则。

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.