Sustainability of an intervention for the prevention of substance use within Native American communities.

The outcomes of this study revealed the importance of recruiting local Native American tribal community members as participants in an Adult Facilitator Trainee Program for a cultural based intervention, Intertribal Talking Circle (ITC), that addresses prevention of substance use among Native American youth. Survey results indicate that Native-Reliance (cultural identity) and self-efficacy increased among the trainees from base-line to 3-months post the training session. Themes emerged from qualitative interviews conducted with the participants that described their readiness to implement and sustain the Talking Circle intervention program within their tribal communities after the research project was completed.

A commercial tobacco and alcohol use intervention for urban Native American youth.

Objective: Westernized alcohol and commercial tobacco use prevention approaches for Native Americans have not been effective, or sustainable. The overall objective of this study examined the effect of the culturally based Urban Talking Circle (UTC) intervention versus standard education (SE) program for the prevention of alcohol and commercial tobacco use among urban Native American youth.

Design: The study employed a 2-condition quasi-experimental design and utilized convenience and snowball sampling methods for recruiting 100 urban Native American youth participants in two urban Native American community program locations in Florida.

Psychological capital variables as protective factors in indigenous youth experiencing homelessness.

Indigenous youth in the United States are at high-risk for experiencing homelessness related to adverse childhood experiences such as parental substance use and low educational attainment. Such experiences may lead to adverse physical and mental health issues; these youth also have positive attributes of psychological capita (hope, self-efficacy, resilience, optimism) that are related to health outcomes. The purpose of this secondary analysis was to describe demographic attributes and psychological capital in Indigenous youth experiencing homelessness (IYEH) who participated in a longitudinal intervention study related to safe sex behaviors and life satisfaction.

Intertribal Talking Circle for the prevention of alcohol and drug use among Native American youth.

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a culturally based intervention, the Intertribal Talking Circle program, compared to a standard alcohol and drug abuse education, the Be A Winner program. Community-based participatory research was used to implement a two-condition, quasi-experimental study. The sample included 540 Native American youth ages 10-12 years old from three tribal areas in the United States.

A Cultural-Based approach to address substance use among urban Native American young adults.

Native American young adults residing in urban communities are particularly vulnerable to substance use. After leaving high school, the pressures and stress of continuing education, finding employment, and the responsibilities related to family and tribal community obligations predispose these young adults to substance use. This study used a pre/post test design to evaluate a cultural-based Talking Circle intervention for the prevention of substance use among urban Native American young adults, ages 18-24.

A Rural Native American Community Experiences Related to Emotional and Mental Health Well-Being during the COVID19 Pandemic.

Purpose: This qualitative study was conducted as part of a larger nationwide study, the Aegis Project that investigated the impact of the COVID19 pandemic, infection and reinfection, and the potential long-term immunity to SARS-CoV-2 and will be reported in a future paper. The study is a collaborative effort among The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, Indiana University at Bloomington School of Public Health, and a rural-based Tribe located in the Midwest. The qualitative component of the study explored the experiences that impacted the emotional and mental health well-being during the COVID19 pandemic.

Native American adolescent narrative written stories of stress.

Objective(s): The purpose of this paper is to report study findings related to themes of stress and coping strategies experienced by non-reservation-based Native American adolescents as expressed by their written stories.

Design: A qualitative descriptive narrative approach was used to capture written stories of stress.

Analysis: Key concepts and themes were identified by using the consensual qualitative research (CQR) approach from the participant's stories of stress.

A Culture-Based Talking Circle Intervention for Native American Youth at Risk for Obesity.

This community-based study explored the effectiveness of an after-school cultural-based intervention for Native American youth at risk for obesity. A standard health education after-school program served as the comparison control condition. Cherokee self-reliance (cultural identity), perceived stress, and obesity knowledge and related behaviors were the three outcome measures evaluated at baseline and immediate post-intervention.

The health challenge of stress experienced by Native American adolescents.

Little is known about how Native American youth experience or manage stress. The purpose of this study was to describe the health challenge of stress experienced by Cherokee-Keetoowah adolescents and to identify approaches used to manage stress. All adolescents regardless of ethnicity face normative sources of stress, such as daily hassles and transition experiences like moving to a new school.