Research in Latin America
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Anti-immigrant sentiment and adolescent wellbeing in the Arizona-Sonora border region
Location: Latin America, United States and Mexico The study team seeks to advance knowledge about the experiences with violence, anti-immigrant sentiments, and coping strategies of youth along both sides of the US-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora… more |
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Guanajuato youth public health profile
Location: Latin America, Mexico GCAHR and the Sistema Avanzado de Bachillerato y Educacion Superior del Gobierno del Estado de Guanajuato developed a collaborative research project to assess the health of youth enrolled in the Videobachillerato program (VIBA) of the Mexican state of… more |
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keepin’ it REAL/Mantente REAL: Pilot test in Guatemala
Location: Latin America, Guatemala This project is a collaboration between GCAHR and U Yum Cap, ONG, a Guatemala City non-profit aimed at implementing prevention programs that promote the health of Guatemalan youth. |
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keepin’ it REAL/Mantente REAL: Pilot test in Jalisco, Mexico
Location: Latin America, Mexico In collaboration with the University of Guadalajara and the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social in Jalisco (IMSS), Mexico, GCAHR conducted a pilot study to test the feasibility of implementing keepin’ it REAL in Mexico. |
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keepin’ it REAL/Mantente REAL: Cultural adaptation in Mexico’s three largest cities
Location: Latin America, Mexico Sharp increases in substance use rates among youth in Mexico are a major concern, both in México and in the US. Although substance abuse prevention is a national priority, Mexico has few school-based universal prevention programs that are culturally… more |
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keepin’ it REAL/Mantente REAL: Pilot test in Monterrey, Mexico
Location: Latin America, Mexico The study had two objectives: 1) to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of keepin' it REAL among a Mexican youth sample, and 2) to assess differences between the US and Mexico in the social contexts within which youth drug use occurs. It was… more |
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keepin' it REAL/Mantente REAL: Pilot test in Nogales, Mexico
Location: Latin America, Mexico Sharp increases in substance use rates among youth in Mexico are a major concern in both Mexico and the US, and the US-Mexico border region has one of the highest drug use rates among youth. This… more |
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Families Preparing the New Generation: Human rights and migration
Location: Latin America, Mexico GCAHR joined a bi-national research network in collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) and the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (UAT) in Nuevo León, Mexico, in a two-year partnership to examine migrants’ experiences of human… more |
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keepin' it REAL/Mantente REAL: Cultural adaptation and pilot test in Uruguay
Location: Latin America, Uruguay This research implemented a culturally adapted Spanish language version of the keepin’ it REAL youth substance use prevention program, called Mantente REAL (MREAL), in Uruguay and conducted feasibility, efficacy and effectiveness studies of MREAL with… more |
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keepin’ it REAL/Mantene REAL: Feasibility trial in Mexico’s three largest cities
Location: Latin America, Mexico The project was a collaboration between GCAHR investigators and substance use researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City), University of Guadalajara, and Autonomous University of Nuevo León (Monterrey). The objective was… more |
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keepin' it REAL/Mantente REAL: Pilot test in Cartagena, Colombia
Location: Latin America To evaluate the effectiveness of a program for the prevention of the consumption of psychoactive substances (cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana) Mantente REAL, in adolescents between 10-14 years old in official educational institutions in the city of… more |
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keepin’ it REAL/Mantente REAL: Training of trainers for implementation in Sonora, Mexico
Location: Latin America, Mexico Train teachers for the implementation of the "Mantente REAL" program where the strategies Refuse – Explain – Avoid and Leave (REAL) are used to teach students how to say NO to offers of substances such as alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in a practical… more |