Parental Criminal Justice Involvement & Substance Use among Puerto Rican Youth

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目是为了响应RFA-DA-10-015：支持成瘾研究（SOAR）的新研究者（R03）。我们的计划是开展一个研究项目，该项目将提供有关过去30年来美国史无前例的监禁率上升的影响的关键信息，使父母参与刑事司法系统（CJSI）成为弱势青年生活中的常见事件。我们提出了一项试点研究，其具体目标如下：目标1：证明在5年后找到并重新联系住在南布朗克斯、至少有一位父母参与刑事司法系统（CJSI）的参与Boricua青年研究（BYS; R01 MH56401; PI: Bird）的家庭的可行性，并提供年龄性别匹配的对照样本；目标2：研究居住在南布朗克斯的波多黎各裔青少年和年轻人的父母CJSI与长期饮酒之间关系的可能效应大小范围。试点研究样本将包括父母患有CJSI的南布朗克斯BYS参与者（N=145）和父母从未参与过CJSI的匹配组参与者（N=145）。由于BYS的设计，试点研究CJSI子样本将是2000年居住在南布朗克斯的5 - 13岁波多黎各背景儿童的代表。将获得有关参与者位置、酒精使用和父母CJSI的最新信息。SOAR提出的试点研究将采用与RFMH-OMH试点研究目前使用的方法类似的跟踪方法（PI: CS Duarte），但它将针对不同的BYS子样本，并将包括对青少年酒精使用和父母CJSI的评估。BYS包括三波数据（2001年至2004年的年度评估），来自南布朗克斯和波多黎各圣胡安的儿童（N= 2491），使用结构诊断访谈来评估物质使用/滥用和精神障碍以及广泛的风险/保护因素。该试点信息的目的是支持对该样本中父母CJSI与酒精滥用之间的关系进行更全面的评估，这将独特地解决早期前兆问题，直接为高度需要的人群提供预防干预措施。这样的申请将与NIDA资助的纵向研究项目密切相关，该项目评估父母CJSI的影响，该项目也是由我们的研究小组进行的，目前正在南布朗克斯进行（R01 DA023733和R01 DA024029， PI: CW Hoven, Co-I: CS Duarte）。

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.