Project Details
Description
This revised R01 application is in response to the recent Program Announcement (PA-04-152): MDMA:
Research Areas Needing More Emphasis. Its purpose is to study use of ecstasy (MDMA) in youth. With
over 10 million people in the United States having used ecstasy at least once in their lives and majority of
them being youth, there is an urgent need to understand the patterns and risk and protective factors
associated with its use to be able to provide adequate prevention and intervention to this population.
The proposed project is a secondary analysis of (1) data from a 7-year (1999-2005) series of annual surveys
from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH, formerly called the National Household Survey
on Drug Abuse (NHSDA)) and (2) the National Survey of Parents and Youth (NSPY), a longitudinal survey of
youth and their parents on their substance use, and attitudes, beliefs and intentions towards substance use,
and risk factors.
Study aims: (1) To describe trends in ecstasy use from 1999 to 2005 in youth; to examine if the trends differ
by gender, ethnicity and geographic area; to examine the effects of national policies on ecstasy use and on
trends of ecstasy use in youth: (2) To examine ecstasy use in relation to use of other substances in youth.
(3) To assess the relationship of ecstasy use with emotional and behavioral problems, as well as suicidal
behaviors in youth, controlling for use of other drugs; to examine if the patterns of the relationships differ by
gender; and (4) To assess risk and protective factors (at the individual level, family level, and community
level) for ecstasy use in youth. To identify factors uniquely associated with ecstasy use and those shared
with use of other substances.
It is hoped that the findings of this project will help us to better understand patterns of ecstasy use, as well as
risk and protective factors, and point the way to more specific research with clinical and policy relevance in
this important field.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 8/25/06 → 1/31/11 |
Funding
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: US$916,182.00
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: US$277,667.00
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: US$305,064.00
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: US$49,992.00
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Psychiatry and Mental health
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