Religious Coping and Drug Use/HIV Risk Behaviors in Latino Immigrants

这项研究建议考察(A)文化适应压力对新移民的物质使用和艾滋病毒危险行为的影响，(B)宗教应对机制是否对这种关系起到缓和作用。需要检验的中心假设是，特定的宗教应对机制影响文化适应压力对拉美裔移民的物质使用和艾滋病毒危险行为的关系。这项研究将使用来自佛罗里达国际大学通过美国拉丁裔艾滋病毒/艾滋病和药物滥用研究中心进行的纵向研究的二级数据分析进行。在拟议的研究中将采用横截面设计。样本预计将包括200名参与者的子集，这些参与者是从最初的父母研究中抽取的520名样本中的一部分。样本将包括目前居住在迈阿密-戴德县的100名男性和100名女性，年龄在19岁到35岁之间。样本将在性别之间平均分配，以促进研究目的，即探索宗教应对方式对适应压力和物质使用/艾滋病毒危险行为之间的关系的调节作用在性别之间的差异。所有参与者都将是在美国生活不到两年的拉丁裔移民。参与者最近抵达美国是这次调查的一个独特而重要的组成部分，因为在移民的头两年，适应压力往往是最大的。这项拟议的研究将分析通过面对面管理的纸质/铅笔问卷收集的数据。访谈通常在参与者的家中进行，并为质量控制目的录制音频。这项拟议研究的分析将包括从适应压力、药物使用、艾滋病毒风险和宗教应对等量表收集的数据。只使用具有良好心理测量学特性的标准化量表。此外，五个量表中有三个已经验证了西班牙语版本。另外两种方法经过了彻底的翻译过程，包括翻译/回译，修改后的直接翻译，以及检查语义和概念对等。在拟议的研究中，结构方程建模将是检验变量之间关系的主要数据分析方法。

This study proposes to examine (a) the influence of acculturation stress on substance use and HIV-risk behaviors among recent Latino immigrants, (b) whether religious coping mechanisms have a moderating effect on that relationship. The central hypothesis to be tested is that specific religious coping mechanisms influence the relationship that acculturation stress has on the substance use and HIV-risk behaviors of Latino immigrants. The research will be conducted using secondary data analysis drawn from a longitudinal study done at Florida International University through the Center for Research on U.S. Latinos HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse. A cross sectional design will be used in the proposed research. The sample is expected to consist of a subset of 200 participants drawn from a total sample of 520 from the original parent study. The sample will include 100 men and 100 women between the ages of 19 and 35 who currently reside in Miami-Dade County. The sample will be divided equally between genders in order to facilitate the research aim of exploring variations across genders in the way that religious coping moderates the relationship between acculturation stress and substance use/HIV-risk behaviors. All participants will be Latino immigrants who have been living in the U.S. for less than two years. The participant's recent arrival to the U.S. is a unique and important component of this investigation as acculturation stress tends to be at its highest during the first two years of immigration. The proposed study will analyze data collected through face-to face administered paper/pencil questionnaires. Interviews were usually conducted in the participant' home and audio recorded for quality control purposes. The analyses for the proposed research will include data collected from scales on acculturation stress, substance use, HIV-risk, and religious coping. Only standardized scales with good psychometric properties were used. Additionally, three of the five scales have validated Spanish versions. The other two measures went through a thorough translation process including translation/back translation, modified direct translation, and checks for semantic and conceptual equivalence. Structural equation modeling will be the primary method of data analysis for testing relationships between variables in the proposed study.