School-based interventions to prevent substance use among inner-city minority adolescents.

Creating Culturally Grounded Prevention Videos: Defining Moments in the Journey to Collaboration

“…Indeed, everyone (researchers included) interprets events according to his or her own established schema rather than from others' perspectives (Foucault, 1970;Karakowsky & McBey, 2001). Investigators acknowledged that their interpretations of what they observed might differ significantly from the meanings students attached to the same phenomenon (Forgey et al, 1997;Hurdle, Okamoto, & Miles, 2002;Muller, 2000). …”

“…Prior research has demonstrated that interventions created by and for mainstream students, based on dominant culture values and beliefs, were not effective when applied to ethnically distinct groups (Forgey, Schinke, & Cole, 1997;Holleran et al, 2002;Kulis, Marsiglia, Nieri, Sicotte, & Hohmann-Marriott, 2004;Marsiglia, Kulis, & Hecht, 2001). Other studies underscored the need for researchers to understand what it means to be a member of an ethnically distinct group before attempting to develop prevention messages for members of those groups (Marsiglia, Miles, Dustman, & Sills, 2002;Napoli, Marsiglia, & Kulis, 2003;Okamoto, Hurdle, & Marsiglia, 2002;Sheets, 2003).…”