Current Projects

Drug Resistance Strategies: keepin’ it REAL for 5th Graders........ This NIDA funded R01 study is a 5-year longitudinal randomized trial of an adapted and enhanced version of keepin’ it REAL involving 7 Phoenix school districts, 32 schools, 96 teachers, and over 2000 students. Study aims are: (1) to describe the development of ecological risk and resiliency factors as Mexican/Mexican American students transition from 5th to 9th grade and undergo acculturation processes; (2) to enhance the existing 7th grade keepin’ it REAL multicultural intervention (a SAMSHA model program) by increasing the dosage adding acculturation related material, and by examining the most efficacious age of intervention, 5th versus 7th grade; and (3) to examine ecological risk and resiliency factors, such as parental monitoring, perceived discrimination and acculturation stress, as moderators of prevention effects. Surveys are conducted at several points in time, including a pre-test and 6 post-tests, with the last occurring in the 9th grade. ASU PIs: Dr. Flavio Marsiglia, Dr. Stephen Kulis. Penn State PI: Dr. Michael Hecht. Current Teacher Training

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