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.
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on Other Racial or Ethnic Groups Reports
on Youth Other Topics Other
OAS Publications and Services 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. For
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