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Predicting the onset of alcohol use and the development of alcohol use disorder among Indigenous adolescents
(Wiley, 2016-05)
Empirical efforts to identify the predictors of drinking behavior among North American Indigenous adolescents are relatively limited. Using longitudinal data, this study considers perceived discrimination, positive drinker ...
Microaggressions, diabetes distress, and self-care behaviors in a sample of American Indian adults with type 2 diabetes
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018)
American Indian/Alaska Native people experience the highest age-adjusted prevalence of type 2 diabetes of any racial group in the United States, as well as high rates of related health problems. Chronic stressors such as ...
Aggressive delinquency among North American Indigenous adolescents: Trajectories and predictors
(Wiley, 2016)
Aggressive delinquency is a salient social problem for many North American Indigenous (American Indian, Canadian First Nations) communities, and can have deleterious consequences later in life. Yet there is a paucity of ...
Factors associated with Indigenous youths' abstinence from drinking
(Elsevier BV, 2017)
The proportion of youth who abstain from alcohol use decreases during adolescence but little attention has focused on factors associated with abstinence. No research has examined this question for Indigenous youth, many ...
Prospective childhood risk factors for gang involvement among North American Indigenous adolescents
(SAGE Publications, 2016-10)
The purpose of the study was to examine prospective childhood risk factors for gang involvement across the course of adolescence among a large 8-year longitudinal sample of 646 Indigenous (i.e., American Indian and Canadian ...
Trajectories of substance use: Onset and adverse outcomes among North American Indigenous adolescents
(Wiley, 2016-12)
North American Indigenous communities experience disproportionately high rates of substance use, abuse, and dependence and their accompanying consequences. This study uses group-based trajectory modeling of past-year ...
Caregiving stress among American Indians with Type 2 diabetes: The importance of awareness of connectedness and family support
(SAGE Publications, 2018)
American Indian (AI) communities experience a disproportionate rate of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cumulative exposure to stress. Although this link is well researched among various populations, it has not been examined among ...
Self-reported arrests among Indigenous adolescents: A longitudinal analysis of community, family, and individual risk factors
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016)
Purpose: North American indigenous (American Indian/Canadian First Nations) adolescents are overrepresented in the juvenile justice systems in the USA and Canada. One explanation advanced for disproportionate numbers of ...
Conduct disorder and alcohol use disorder trajectories, predictors, and outcomes for Indigenous youth
(Elsevier BV, 2017-02)
Objective: The aim of this study was to identify separate and joint trajectories of conduct disorder (CD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) DSM-IV diagnostic symptoms among American Indian and First Nation (Indigenous) youth ...