Drug use and peer norms among youth in a high-risk drug use neighbourhood in Buenos Aires

Pawlowicz, María Pía; Singh, Dhan S. Zunino; Rossi, Diana; Touzé, Graciela; Wolman, Guido; Bolyard, Melissa; Sandoval, Milagros; Flom, Peter L.; Gelabert, Pedro Mateu; Friedman, Samuel R.

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“…As with adolescents from other ethnic and racial groups, peer influence is a major risk factor for Asian American adolescent girls and perceived peer substance use norms can be seen as processes of peer influences (Pawlowicz et al, 2010). Despite an emerging trend, our intervention did not have a statistically significant impact on girls’ normative beliefs.…”

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Two-year outcomes of a randomized, family-based substance use prevention trial for Asian American adolescent girls.

Fang¹,

Schinke²

2013

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Asian Americans have been largely ignored in the prevention outcome literature. In this study, we tested a parent-child program with a sample of Asian American adolescent girls and their mothers, and evaluated the program’s efficacy on decreasing girls’ substance use, and modifying risk and protective factors at individual, family, and peer levels. One hundred and eight Asian American mother-daughter dyads recruited through online advertisements and from community service agencies were randomly assigned to an intervention arm (n = 56) or to a test-only control arm (n = 52). The intervention consisted of a nine-session substance abuse prevention program, delivered entirely online. Guided by family interaction theory, the prevention program aimed to strengthen the quality of girls’ relationships with their mothers while increasing girls’ resilience to resist substance use. Intent-to-treat analyses showed that at 2-year follow-up, intervention-arm dyads had significantly higher levels of mother-daughter closeness, mother-daughter communication, maternal monitoring, and family rules against substance use compared to the control-arm dyads. Intervention-arm girls also showed sustained improvement in self-efficacy and refusal skills, and had lower intentions to use substances in the future. Most important, intervention-arm girls reported fewer instances of alcohol and marijuana use, and prescription drug misuse relative to the control-arm girls. The study suggests that a culturally generic, family-based prevention program was efficacious in enhancing parent-child relationships, improving girls’ resiliency, and preventing substance use behaviors among Asian American girls.

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Two-year outcomes of a randomized, family-based substance use prevention trial for Asian American adolescent girls.

Fang¹,

Schinke²

2013

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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“…In the Russian case just alluded to, these norms seem to have changed for many small groups, resulting in an abyss between them and others and increasing stigma in Russian society. Looking toward the future, it would be useful to track changes between pre- and post-Big Event periods in normative communication and thus “external norms” (36 – 39) in order to understand why some situations do and others do not precipitate HIV epidemics.…”

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Theory, Measurement and Hard Times: Some Issues for HIV/AIDS Research

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“…We elicited feedback from selected participants (chosen as knowledgeable and willing to assist us-essentially, they were "informants for this part of the study) and from our scientific advisory board members to help in revising the questions. Our pathways measures are new, but some of them extend or complement existing measures, e.g., of stigma and norms about condom use and partner selection [7,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

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“…We developed this form of asking about active norms in earlier studies, [5][6][7] but are here applying this form to new substantive areas that tie into how Big Events or structural interventions might unleash epidemics.…”

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New Measures for Research on Men Who Have Sex with Men and for At-Risk Heterosexuals: Tools to Study Links Between Structural Interventions or Large-Scale Social Change and HIV Risk Behaviors, Service Use, and Infection

Friedman

Pouget

Sandoval³

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AIDS Behav

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Large-scale structural interventions and "Big Events" like revolutions, wars and major disasters can affect HIV transmission by changing the sizes of at-risk populations, making high-risk behaviors more or less likely, or changing contexts in which risk occurs. This paper describes new measures to investigate hypothesized pathways that could connect macro-social changes to subsequent HIV transmission. We developed a "menu" of novel scales and indexes on topics including norms about sex and drug injecting under different conditions, experiencing denial of dignity, agreement with cultural themes about what actions are needed for survival or resistance, solidarity and other issues. We interviewed 298 at-risk heterosexuals and 256 men who have sex with men in New York City about these measures and possible validators for them. Most measures showed evidence of criterion validity (absolute magnitude of Pearson's r ≥ 0.20) and reliability (Cronbach's alpha ≥ 0.70). These measures can be (cautiously) used to understand how macro-

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Drug use and peer norms among youth in a high-risk drug use neighbourhood in Buenos Aires

Abstract: (2010). Drug use and peer norms among youth in a high-risk drug use neighbourhood in Buenos Aires. Journal: Education, Prevention & Policy, 17 (5)

Cited by 8 publications

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Two-year outcomes of a randomized, family-based substance use prevention trial for Asian American adolescent girls.

Two-year outcomes of a randomized, family-based substance use prevention trial for Asian American adolescent girls.

Theory, Measurement and Hard Times: Some Issues for HIV/AIDS Research

New Measures for Research on Men Who Have Sex with Men and for At-Risk Heterosexuals: Tools to Study Links Between Structural Interventions or Large-Scale Social Change and HIV Risk Behaviors, Service Use, and Infection

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