This project will continue a 25 year surveillance effort assessing the levels and patterns of substance use among American Indian adolescents attending reservation schools. Each year of the five-year project a representative sample of 2000 Indian youth living on will be given a comprehensive drug use survey in their school classroom. In addition, the survey will contain questions regarding violence, victimization and delinquent behaviors. These data will be used as the beginning phase of a long-term surveillance of these behaviors. The project will also, for the first time, determine rates of drug use, violence and victimization among American Indian students in the historic Indian lands in Oklahoma by surveying a representative sample of 1500 students each year. The purposes of the surveillance work are to observe changes over time, to accurately describe these domains, to provide insight into the nature of drug use, violence and victimization and to inform the efforts of those designing and evaluating intervention efforts. Hierarchical Linear Modeling will be use to provide unbiased estimates of rates and standard errors and to compare reservation Indian youth and Oklahoma Indian youth with rural American youth. Additionally, the project contains extensive scales assessing levels and patterns of risk and protective factors for drug use, violence and victimization. A series of Structural Equation Models will be used to study the relationships between these outcome behaviors and the predictors of social (family sanctions, peer drug associations) and emotional distress (anxiety, depression, alienation, anger) domains, and to assess moderating effects on these models of age, gender, family support, school adjustment and cultural identification. A final goal of the project is to develop a series of recommendations, based on project findings, for the design of drug, alcohol and violence prevention programs that will be effective specifically for American Indian youth.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01DA003371-18
Application #
6378369
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-SNEM-2 (01))
Program Officer
Etz, Kathleen
Project Start
1983-09-01
Project End
2005-08-31
Budget Start
2001-09-01
Budget End
2002-08-31
Support Year
18
Fiscal Year
2001
Total Cost
$395,067
Indirect Cost
Name
Colorado State University-Fort Collins
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
112617480
City
Fort Collins
State
CO
Country
United States
Zip Code
80523
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