| PROJECT TITLE: | MITCHELL K02 PROPOSAL: DEVELOPMENTAL PATHS TO HIV RISK AMONG AI ADULTS |
| FUNDING SOURCE: | NIMH |
| DATES OF FUNDING: | 2001-2005 |
| PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S): | Christina Mitchell, Ph.D. |
| CENTER STAFF INVOLVED: | Christina Mitchell, Ph.D. |
SPECIFIC AIMS/RESEARCH GOALS:
- To determine the underlying structure of HIV risk/protective knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors (KABs) in 2 AI samples
- to understand prevalence and underlying structure of psychopathology among 2 samples of AI adolescents and young adults;
- using 2 psychosocial theories—Social Cognitive Theory and Stress-Vulnerability Theory—to explore psychiatric and psychosocial risk/protective factors for and pathways leading to psychopathology among this group; and
- to build on these 3 previous steps to model critical relationships among
risk/protective factors, psychiatric disorder, and psychopathology
as predictors of HIV KABs.
RESEARCH DESIGN:
Secondary data analyses of Healthy Ways data.
PARTICIPANTS:
See Healthy Ways description.
MEASURES:
See Healthy Ways description.
PUBLICATIONS:
Mitchell, C. M., & Kaufman, C. E. (2002). Structure of HIV knowledge,
attitudes, and behaviors among Amreican Indian young adults. AIDS Education
and Prevention, 14, 381-398.
