Practices Surrounding Pain Management Among American Indians and Alaska Natives in Rural Southern California: An Exploratory Study.

Objectives: This exploratory study examined pain management practices among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the service area of a rural tribal clinic in Southern California.

Methods: Researchers invited 325 individuals to complete an anonymous survey in clinic waiting rooms and tribal gatherings. Analyses of the 295 eligible responses included calculating frequencies and conducting multiple logistic regressions and a Mantel-Haenszel analysis.

Implementing a reward and reminder underage drinking prevention program in convenience stores near Southern California American Indian reservations.

Background: Underage drinking is associated with a number of social and public health consequences. Preventing access to alcohol is one approach to reducing underage drinking.

Objectives: This study assesses the efficacy of a culturally tailored "reward and reminder" program aimed at reducing convenience store alcohol sales to youth living on or near nine American Indian reservations.

Alcohol risk management in college settings: the safer California universities randomized trial.

Context: Potentially effective environmental strategies have been recommended to reduce heavy alcohol use among college students. However, studies to date on environmental prevention strategies are few in number and have been limited by their nonexperimental designs, inadequate sample sizes, and lack of attention to settings where the majority of heavy drinking events occur.

Purpose: To determine whether environmental prevention strategies targeting off-campus settings would reduce the likelihood and incidence of student intoxication at those settings.

Archival data: collection and use in community alcohol projects.

Archival data are considered useful for identifying problem areas, assessing levels of problems, and evaluation of interventions. However, few publications describe the process of collecting them and related potential obstacles. For the Safer California Universities study, archival data is expected to play a major role in identifying problem settings and the extent of alcohol use-related problems on the campuses.