TRENDS IN ALCOHOL MISUSE AMONG MINORITY ADOLESCENTS

申请人摘要：学龄种族/少数民族青年是一个 在美国人口中所占的比例越来越大，但我们的 了解酒精和其他物质的趋势和预测因素 使用主要基于白色样品。 大多数调查没有 包括种族/民族青年的大量子样本;因此，预防 针对少数民族年轻人的努力往往基于这样的假设， 不同种族/族裔群体之间的使用模式与 这些是为全体人民服务的。 成本效益，次级 数据分析建议进行深入研究的趋势， 少数民族滥用酒精和相关物质的模式 在过去的十年里，5-12年级的学生。 拟议研究 包括来自三个可比较的酒精使用横断面调查的数据， 吸烟和非法药物的使用 1983年、1990年和1994年，纽约州7- 12年级学生的 (Ns= 27，335、23，860和19，321）。 鉴于纽约的种族多样性 州和大N，所有种族/少数民族群体都很好， 在这些样本中。 例如，1994年青少年调查 包括大约1,200名美洲印第安人，1,000名西印度人，1800名 非裔美国人和3,000名西班牙裔美国人。 拟议的研究还将 包括分析两个5-6级可比较代表性样品 1990年和1994年调查的学生，包括大约10 000名学生 在每一个样品中。 将与各国的调查结果进行比较。 在 除了分析趋势外，研究的进一步目标是 确定：少数种族/族裔群体中保护因素的趋势 滥用酒精与青少年健康之间关系的趋势 其他青少年问题行为;这些问题的地理差异 趋势;以及接触学校预防方案的趋势和潜在的 少数民族青少年的求助行为。 所提出的方法 包括使用多变量统计技术，包括Logistic 回归和对数线性模型。 调查结果将直接关系到 制定更有效的预防和干预方案， 少数民族青年。

APPLICANT'S ABSTRACT: School-aged racial/ethnic minority youth are a substantial and increasing proportion of the U.S. population, yet our understanding of the trends and predictors of alcohol and other substance use are based on predominantly white samples. Most surveys have not included large sub-samples of racial/ethnic youth; consequently, prevention efforts aimed at minority young people are often based on the assumption that the patterns of use among various racial/ethnic groups are the same as those for the population as a whole. Cost-effectiveness, secondary data-analysis is proposed to carry out an in-depth study of the trends in the patterns of alcohol and related substance misuse among ethnic minority school students in grades 5-12 over the past decade. The proposed research includes data from three comparable cross-sectional surveys of alcohol use, cigarette smoking, and illicit drug use among large, representative samples of 7-12th grade students in New York State in 1983, 1990 and 1994 (Ns=27,335, 23,860, and 19,321). Given the ethnic diversity in New York State and the large Ns, all racial/ethnic minority groups are well represented in these samples. For example, the 1994 adolescent survey includes approximately 1,200 American Indians, 1,000 West Indians, 1,800 African Americans, and 3,000 Hispanics. The proposed research will also include analysis of two comparable representative samples of 5-6 grade students surveyed in 1990 and 1994, including approximately 10,000 students in each sample. Comparisons will be made with national findings. In addition to the analysis of trends, further aims of the study are to determine: trends in protective factors among racial/ethnic minority groups of young people; trends in the relationships between alcohol misuse and other adolescent problem behaviors; the geographic variations in these trends; and trends in exposure to school prevention programs and potential help-seeking behaviors of minority adolescents. The proposed methods include the use of multivariate statistical techniques, including logistic regression and log-linear models. The findings will be directly relevant to the development of more effective prevention and intervention programs for minority youth.