TY - JOUR
T1 - Strategies to resist drug offers among urban American Indian youth of the southwest
T2 - An enumeration, classification, and analysis by substance and offeror
AU - Kulis, Stephen
AU - Reeves, Leslie Jumper
AU - Dustman, Patricia Allen
AU - O'Neill, Marissa
N1 - Funding Information:
Data collection for this study was supported by funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R-24 DA-13937-01, F.F. Marsiglia, PI) and analysis was supported by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (P20-MD002316, F.F. Marsiglia, PI). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, or the National Institutes of Health. Address correspondence to Stephen Kulis, Director of Research, Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center, Arizona State University, 411 N. Central Avenue, Suite 720, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0693; E-mail: kulis@asu.edu.
PY - 2011/7/29
Y1 - 2011/7/29
N2 - This study explores the drug resistance strategies of urban American Indian adolescents when they encounter people offering them alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana. Data were collected in 2005 from 11 female and 9 male adolescents who self-identified as American Indian and attended two urban middle schools in the southwestern United States. In two focus groupsâ€"one at each school siteâ€"the youth described their reactions to 25 hypothetical substance offer scenarios drawn from real-life narratives of similar youth. Qualitative analysis of their 552 responses to the scenarios generated 14 categories. Half of the responses were strategies reported most often by nonnative youth (refuse, explain, leave, and avoid). Using ecodevelopmental theory, the responses were analyzed for indications of culturally specific ways of resisting substance offers, such as variation by specific substance and relationship to the person offering. Study limitations are noted along with suggestive implications for future research on culturally appropriate prevention approaches for urban American Indian youth.
AB - This study explores the drug resistance strategies of urban American Indian adolescents when they encounter people offering them alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana. Data were collected in 2005 from 11 female and 9 male adolescents who self-identified as American Indian and attended two urban middle schools in the southwestern United States. In two focus groupsâ€"one at each school siteâ€"the youth described their reactions to 25 hypothetical substance offer scenarios drawn from real-life narratives of similar youth. Qualitative analysis of their 552 responses to the scenarios generated 14 categories. Half of the responses were strategies reported most often by nonnative youth (refuse, explain, leave, and avoid). Using ecodevelopmental theory, the responses were analyzed for indications of culturally specific ways of resisting substance offers, such as variation by specific substance and relationship to the person offering. Study limitations are noted along with suggestive implications for future research on culturally appropriate prevention approaches for urban American Indian youth.
KW - Drug resistance strategies
KW - Resiliency
KW - Substance offers
KW - Urban American Indian youth
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U2 - 10.3109/10826084.2011.592433
DO - 10.3109/10826084.2011.592433
M3 - Article
C2 - 21810074
AN - SCOPUS:80051509507
SN - 1082-6084
VL - 46
SP - 1395
EP - 1409
JO - Substance Use and Misuse
JF - Substance Use and Misuse
IS - 11
ER -