The
NSDUH Report: Risk & Protective Factors for Substance
Use Among American Indian or Alaska Native Youths
Highlights:
- SAMHSA's
National Survey on Drug Use and Health combined data from 2002 and
2003 to examine three categories of risk factors for substance use
(individual/peers, family, and school). These risk factors were compared
between American Indian or Alaska Native youth and other racial and
ethnic groups. These estimates are based on 46,310 respondents aged
12 to 17, representing a national population of 25 million youth.
Nationally, there are an estimated 183,000 American Indian or Alaska
Native youths aged 12 to 17.
- American
Indian or Alaska Native youths were more likely than other
youths to perceive moderate to no risk associated with substance use,
to perceive their parents as not strongly disapproving of their substance
use, and to believe that all or most of the students in their school
get drunk at least once a week.
- American
Indian or Alaska Native youths were less likely than other
youths to participate in youth activities or regularly attend religious
services.
- According
to American Indian or Alaska Native youths,
their parents were about as likely as those of other youths
to talk to their child about dangers of substance use, to let the
youth know they had done a good job, to tell their youth that they
were proud of something they had done, to make their youth do chores
around the house or to limit the amount of time watching TV. However,
parents of American Indian or Alaska Native
youths were less likely to provide help with school homework or to
limit the time out with friends on school nights.
Other
Reports on American Indians or Alaska Natives
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on Other Racial or Ethnic Groups
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on Youth
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This Short
Report, The NSDUH
Report: Risk & Protective Factors for Substance Use Among
American Indian or Alaska Native Youths, is based on SAMHSA's
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH),
formerly called the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) conducted
by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NHSDA/NSDUH) is the primary
source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of
drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized
population, age 12 and older. The NHSDA/NSDUH
also provides estimates for drug use by state.
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