Brave Heart, Maria Yellow Horse
Lewis-Fernández, Roberto
Beals, Janette
Hasin, Deborah S.
Sugaya, Luisa
Wang, Shuai
Grant, Bridget F.
Blanco, Carlos
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (MD004811)
National Institutes of Health (MD000507)
National Institutes of Health (AA08159, AA018111 and AA00161)
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (MH076051;MH082773)
Article History
Received: 19 October 2015
Accepted: 16 April 2016
First Online: 2 May 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
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: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there are no conflicts of interests.
: This current study is an analysis of data on American Indian/Alaska Native adults compared to non-Hispanic whites, from a nationally representative sample of the adult population of the US collected in the 2001–2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC). The NESARC derives from data collected by the US Census Bureau, which administered face-to-face interviews under the direction of the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), as described in detail elsewhere. The NESARC research protocol and informed consent procedures, received full ethical review and approval from the US Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget. Informed consent procedures were followed. All potential respondents were informed in writing about the nature of the survey, the statistical uses of the survey data, that participation was voluntary, and the adherence to Federal laws protecting confidentiality of identifiable survey information. This information was shared and consent obtained prior to any interviews. The authors had no access to raw data and data analysis only involved de-identified data. The original NESARC data was collected following ethical standards initially established in 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and all later amendments as relevant; no medical procedures were involved—only standardized verbal questions congruent with psychosocial psychiatric diagnostic assessments.