Eggert L L, Thompson E A, Herting J R, Nicholas L J
Issues Ment Health Nurs. 1994 Mar-Apr;15(2):107-35. doi: 10.3109/01612849409006908.
This research program focuses on some of society's most profound problems: adolescent drug involvement, school failure, and suicide behaviors. The program goals address several interdisciplinary research challenges: (a) testing theory-driven preventive interventions focusing on the multifaceted etiology of adolescent drug involvement and suicide potential; (b) targeting potential school dropouts from a distinctly underserved high-risk population; and (c) integrating preventive interventions into school-based programs that utilize a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and researchers. Three sets of studies are described; they illustrate how ethnographic, experimental, and causal modeling designs and methods were intricately woven in successive theory construction and testing steps. Ethnographic and etiologic studies revealed a profile of vulnerabilities in personal, peer, family, and school contexts. Instrumentation studies led to reliable and valid process and outcome measures of key constructs. Tests of the preventive intervention demonstrated its efficacy for decreasing school deviance, drug involvement, and suicide potential among high-risk youth.
青少年涉毒、学业失败和自杀行为。该项目目标应对了若干跨学科研究挑战：(a) 测试以理论为驱动的预防性干预措施，重点关注青少年涉毒和自杀倾向的多方面病因；(b) 针对明显服务不足的高风险人群中潜在的辍学者；(c) 将预防性干预措施纳入利用临床医生和研究人员多学科团队的校本项目。文中描述了三组研究；它们展示了人种志、实验和因果模型设计与方法是如何在连续的理论构建和测试步骤中错综复杂地交织在一起的。人种志和病因学研究揭示了个人、同伴、家庭和学校环境中的一系列脆弱性特征。工具性研究得出了关键构念的可靠且有效的过程和结果测量方法。预防性干预措施的测试证明了其在减少高风险青少年的学校违规行为、涉毒情况和自杀倾向方面的有效性。
