Cultural tailoring of the intervention aimed to provide Indian youth with skills to help them resist pressures toward substance use within Native society and in the larger dominant American society (Schinke et al., 1988). Within the context of contemporary Native American culture, youths learned ...
Substance use and abuse among Native Americans - Young - 1988 () Citation Context ...choice is influenced by urban-rural differences, since other investigators have emphasized the extensive use of inhalants by younger American Indians in on-urban settings (Cockerham, 1977; May, 1982; =-=Young,...
Special issue on Native Americans and substance use. 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 10 作者: Gryczynski, Jan,Johnson, Jeannette L. 摘要: Gryczynski J, Johnson JL. 关键词: Humans Substance-Related Disorders Minority Groups Indians, North American DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2011.592426 年份...
Although there is preliminary evidence that violence against women and children may be particularly prevalent in some Native American communities, associations between abuse and substance abuse, mental health problems, and suicide attempts have rarely been studied in this population. This study examined li...
To examine rates of risk‐taking behavior among native American adolescents in comparison with blacks and whites, and then to compare our off‐reservation native American sample to available national statistics on reservation youth. Methods. A secondary data analysis of a Minnesota public school health...
Results. In general, native American adolescents have a significantly higher prevalence of risk behaviors across all indices of antisocial behavior and substance use relative to white and black peers. Native American females presented the most troubling picture. Comparisons to a national convenience ...
"There's a possibility that younger age group patients in the American Indian and Alaska Native communities are not well screened and/or treated forrisk factorsfor heart attack, such as high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes and/or substance use disorder," Gonuguntla said. "Chest pain may also...
As a result, many Native American advocacy organizations complied the testimonies and proof of the alarming statistics and presented this before Congress. This information included documentation of the devastating effect of governmental policies and actions toward Indian children were having not just on th...
Alcohol preventionRural American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) community efforts addressing youth suicide and substance use disorders (SUD) represent some of the most innovative recent work in the field of prevention science. Epidemiological data identify AIAN youth suicide and SUD as a significant...
However, their population sizes are small, and thus AAs and NHs/PIs are often aggregated into a single racial/ethnic group or omitted from research and health statistics. The groups' substance use disorders (SUDs) and treatment needs have been under-recognized. We examined recent epidemiological ...