A5043668871- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Community Health and Development
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Noise Effects and Management
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Occupational Health and Performance
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Global Health Care Issues
Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation
2014-2025
Institute for Research and Evaluation
2011-2025
Scripps Research Institute
2017-2018
University of Montana
2011
Cancer Prevention Institute of California
1997-2008
Health Canada
1997
Morriston Hospital
1988
Pomona College
1985
Objective: This article reports on the relationship between drinking patterns and workplace problems in a manufacturing facility operated by Fortune 500 industry. Method: The data come from survey of 832 hourly employees (88% male) ethnographic research plant. study is distinctive because it examined large random sample workers, rather than an impaired subpopulation. Moreover, among few that has asked how much they drank prior to during working hours frequently had been hungover at work....
The enactment of California's Proposition 215 stipulates that patients may use marijuana for medical reasons, provided it is recommended by a physician. Yet, risk being stigmatized this practice. This article examines the way in which perceive and process stigma, how affects their interactions experiences with others. Eighteen semi-structured interviews were carried out using interview guide. Most circumvented own physicians obtaining recommendation to medicinal marijuana, also used host...
Objective: This article reports on an investigation of the relationship social control mechanisms at work to drinking practices 10,000 salaried and hourly employees working in same U.S. industry, with union, but two different environments. One environment reflected organizational culture that is traditional management; other was based a nontraditional Japanese transplant model. Method: The research team used combination methods including in-home surveys (N = 1,723; 1,378 men) ethnography...
Objective: This study builds on research linking work culture and drinking behavior to examine the influence of military environment, especially deployment liberty, heavy episodic among career enlistees officers. Method: Both quantitative (self-administered cross-sectional survey data collected from 2,380 respondents) qualitative (home-base shipboard observations ethnographic interviews with 81 enlisted officer personnel) methods provided data. Linear regression analyses were used...
Roots of the epidemic alcohol-related problems among many Native North Americans are sought in cultural responses to European arrival, role alcohol frontier society, and colonial postcolonial policies. Evidence from historical record is considered within framework current social science. Initially, American's were heavily influenced by example White frontiersmen, who drank immoderately engaged otherwise unacceptable behavior while drunk. Whites also deliberately pressed upon natives because...
Objective: We investigated drinking behavior and sources of alcohol among Native American White youths, as well how underage may be related to environmental factors. Method: Survey data from a sample 18,916 youths (8th, 10th, 12th grades) Montana were analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling. supplemented with county-level economic census data. Results: more likely than report heavy episodic initiate at younger age. Americans less Whites get home or someone age 21 but it other social...
Previous research suggests a high prevalence of suicidal ideation among military personnel. Suicidal is associated with suicide attempts and death. This study focused on the association between belongingness—a component Interpersonal Psychological Theory Suicide—and alcohol misuse different categories branch service status. Using Military Suicide Research Consortium Common Data Elements database (N = 2516), we conducted linear regression analyses to examine moderating effect belongingness...
American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth have the highest commercial tobacco smoking rate of any group in United States. Unified by aim to reduce AI/AN use, six separately funded prevention programs serving Southern California tribes formed Tribal Tobacco Coalition (SCTTC). Since joining forces, SCTTC has hosted various activities events that encourage community involvement, leadership, commitment tradition. The SCTTC’s pinnacle event, annual Inter-Tribal Prevention Youth Summit, is...
Background: Individuals who undergo metabolic and bariatric surgery are at increased risk for an alcohol use disorder. Clarity on the relationships between mood, food, could inform interventions to reduce mitigate of disorders after (MBS).
Introduction Promoting positive substance use and sexual health outcomes for urban American Indian Alaska Native (AIAN) Black youth requires multilevel approaches that address the underlying structural conditions promote behavioural inequities. However, researchers rarely employ this complex approach. Developing operationalising a strengths-based conceptual framework grounded in socioecological model is critical first step to inform interventions reduce these Methods analysis Guided by...
The purpose of this study is to determine the role alcohol, tobacco, and drug use as predictors survey panel attrition among an occupational cohort young adults in U.S. military. Baseline data on substance sociodemographic factors were obtained from 2838 men women through confidential, self-administered questionnaires while they attended Navy basic training or Officer Candidate School 1998. Longitudinal follow-up using mailed was begun 2000. Multivariate logistic regression models developed...
A mixed method study assessed how work culture and drinking norms affect heavy patterns of young adults during their first 3 years in the U.S. Navy. Multivariate logistic regression analysis longitudinal survey data showed that normative beliefs were significantly associated with changes drinking. Findings from thematic analyses qualitative interviews naturalistic observations on bases aboard ships explained those elements Navy environments about behavior.
Background: Nationwide surveys identify food service workers as heavy alcohol users. Objectives: This article analyzes dimensions and correlates of problem drinking among young adult workers. Methods: A telephone survey national restaurant chain employees yielded 1,294 completed surveys. Results: Hazardous consumption patterns were seen in 80% men 64% women. Multivariate analysis showed that different measured by the AUDIT associated with workers' demographic characteristics, smoking...
College students typically consume alcohol in groups. To examine group characteristics, structure, processes, and drinking, we conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 30 (50% female; 60% non-Latino White) college (18–24 years old). Participants described the last event they attended where was present. The were fully transcribed coded using an inductive approach software ATLAS.ti 5.2. findings revealed that formation often involved minimal planning facilitated by technologies such...
Thirty-six Native American tribal leaders and members living on contiguous rural southwest California reservations were surveyed concerning their view of the acceptability a motivational interviewing (MI) intervention with youth (aged 8–18 years) who are drinking families. The results suggest following: (1) substantial proportion reservation would be willing to accept MI for behavior change; (2) relatively few actually ready (3) most in precontemplation stage (4) may well suited as an...
Background Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disproportionately impact certain populations including American Indians/Alaska Natives (AIAN). While PTSD have been studied both separately in tandem, less is known about the association AIAN. The objective was to examine between lifetime past year among AIAN non-Hispanic Whites (NHW). Methods Data come from 2012 2013 U.S. National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol Related Conditions-III. We used logistic regression estimate odds...
Aims: This article presents analyses of norms and behaviour concerning drinking before, during after work hours among US bar-restaurant chain employees, with a focus on hangovers at their correlates.Methods: A mixed-method approach combined qualitative analysis 64 face-to-face interviews held randomly chosen service, managerial kitchen staff quantitative (including multivariable linear regression bivariate analyses) data drawn from 1286 completed telephone surveys (response rate 68%)...
Background: Underage drinking is associated with a number of social and public health consequences. Preventing access to alcohol one approach reducing underage drinking. Objectives: This study assesses the efficacy culturally tailored "reward reminder" program aimed at convenience store sales youth living on or near nine American Indian reservations. Methods: First, tribal council proclamations were sought support prevention, including reward reminder efforts. Then, decoys (volunteers over...