| PROJECT TITLE: | AMERICAN INDIAN SPIRITUALITY AND ALCOHOL |
| FUNDING SOURCE: | NIAAA |
| DATES OF FUNDING: | 2001-2003 |
| PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S): | Paul Spicer, PhD. |
| CENTER STAFF INVOLVED: | Jan Beals, Marjorie Bezdek,Calvin Croy, Marvine Douville, Candace Fleming, Ann Wilson Frederick, Suzell Klein, Nohoon Kwak, Paul Spicer, and Shiela Young |
SPECIFIC AIMS/RESEARCH GOALS:
This study has 5 Specific Aims:
- to better understand spirituality and religious practices in a random, community-based sample of members of two tribes in the U.S.;
- to explore potential relationships between spirituality/religiousness and concurrent patterns of alcohol use and misuse in these same two tribes;
- to articulate the role of spirituality and religion in changes in drinking behavior;
- to extend the emphasis on spirituality and religion in the Healing of the Spirit Project to more explicitly examine their role in the treatment and prevention of alcohol problems; and, finally,
- to apply the results of this work, in consultation with AI/AN community
members, to inform future work on religiousness and spirituality with
AI/AN people.
RESEARCH DESIGN:
- Secondary analysis of religion and spirituality data collected in a large epidemiological study in two American Indian tribes.
- Develop and use of open-ended questions on religion and spirituality in an on-going study of remission from alcohol dependence in one American Indian tribe.
- Review of findings from both aspects of the study with community members to refine existing approaches to religion and spirituality in American Indian communities.
PARTICIPANTS:
Enrolled members of a Northern Plains Tribe who previously participated in AI-SUPERPFP.
MEASURES:
- AI-SUPERPFP Measures of Alcohol Use, Alcohol Diagnoses, and Spirituality
- The Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality for Use
in Health Research
PUBLICATIONS:
None currently.
