Seguimos Avanzando - Latino Youth Coping With Discrimination

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

886 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-04-09

Study Completion Date

2024-10-11

Brief Summary

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The overall objective of this study is to investigate mediators and moderators at multiple ecological (individual, family/peer and school/neighborhood levels) and time-scale (micro- and macro-time) levels in the link between discrimination-related stressors and mental health among 340 Mexican-origin youth.

Detailed Description

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The project's long-term goal is to improve the mental health of Mexican-origin youth by reducing the deleterious effects of racism, "othering," and negative neighborhood interactions. Community based collaboration will be used to recruit a sample of 340 Mexican-origin adolescents, mothers, and fathers in Indiana. The inclusion of fathers will be a valuable contribution to the literature, given the dearth of studies on Latinx fathers/stepfathers. A combination of annual surveys administered over three waves to parents and youth ("macro-time") and a 21-day daily diary ("micro-time") administered in wave 1 to youth is employed to assess important questions about how mediating and moderating processes unfold over time. Specific aims of the project include determination of within-person discrimination-related stressors that impact youth's mental health outcomes and the mechanisms of action at both micro- and macro- time levels; identification of protective factors that could help coping with discrimination related stressors and conditions under which they work; and elucidating youth, parent, and neighborhood risk factors that moderate the link between discrimination-related stressors and mental health outcomes in youth. This research is highly translational in that it will facilitate the development of more effective, culturally sensitive prevention and intervention strategies for Latinx youth and their families.

Conditions

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Mental Health

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* The adolescent has two eligible caregivers (as defined in the following criteria)
* The adolescent resides with at least one of the two caregivers.
* One of the caregivers is a parent or legal guardian who is eligible to give consent for the child's participation.

* Biological Parents of Mexican origin
* Legal guardians of Mexican origin
* Step-parents of Mexican origin
* A caregiver of Mexican origin identified by the parent/guardian who is 18 or older (e.g., grandparents, uncles/aunts, older siblings, godparents)

Exclusion Criteria

* A parent reports that the adolescent has a severe learning or developmental disability which would prevent understanding/survey response

Minimum Eligible Age

12 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Responsible Party

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Margarita Alegria, PhD

Chief, Disparities Research Unit

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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University of Notre Dame, William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families

South Bend, Indiana, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Alegria M, Cruz-Gonzalez M, Yip T, Wang L, Park IJK, Fukuda M, Valentino K, Giraldo-Santiago N, Zhen-Duan J, Alvarez K, Barrutia XA, Shrout PE. Yearly and Daily Discrimination-Related Stressors and Mexican Youth's Mental Health and Sleep: Insights From the First Wave of a Three-Wave Family Study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2024 Nov;63(11):1134-1148. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2023.12.010. Epub 2024 Feb 15.

Reference Type DERIVED

PMID: 38367767 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2020P001721

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id