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Participatory drug prevention research in rural Hawai'i with native Hawaiian middle school students
Susana Helm1, Scott K Okamoto, Howard Medeiros
1University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Background/Objectives:
This paper describes a prevention study focused on the drug use scenarios encountered by Native Hawaiian youth. Priorities from communities on the Big Island of Hawai;i helped to shape the qualitative data collection and analysis of middle school students participating in the study.
Methods:
Forty-seven youth from five different schools were interviewed in small, gender-specific focus groups during lunch hour or after school.
Results:
The findings indicated that youth were exposed to drug offers that were direct-relational or indirect-contextual in nature. Direct-relational offers were didactic exchanges where drugs or alcohol were offered from one individual to another (e.g., "Do you want some beer?"). Indirect-contextual offers reflected complex exchanges among individuals, where drugs or alcohol were involved, but not offered directly (e.g., "Do you want to hang out with us?").
Conclusions:
Implications are discussed regarding drug prevention research and programs that highlight indirect-contextual drug offers that are place based and culturally grounded.
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