PROJECT TITLE:
Program for Minority Research Training in Psychiatry Fellowship
FUNDING SOURCE:
American Psychiatric Association
DATES OF FUNDING:
1993 - 1995
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S):
Ilena M. Norton, MD
CENTER STAFF INVOLVED:
Ilena Norton, MD; Spero Manson, Ph.D.
SPECIFIC AIMS/RESEARCH GOALS:
The goals of this research project completed during the fellowship was to determine if posttraumatic stress disorder was a risk factor for marital violence among American Indian Vietnam veterans.
RESEARCH DESIGN:
Fifty American Indian Vietnam combat veterans from Southwest and Northern Plains tribes were interviewed by Dr. Norton at their respective reservations. The 50 veterans had participated in a lay interview of 600 American Indian veterans, and were oversampled for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms.
PARTICIPANTS:
50 Southwest and Northern Plains Vietnam theater veterans.
MEASURES:
- The Semi-Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-111-R
- The Conflict Tactics Scale
PUBLICATIONS:
Norton, I. M., & Manson, S. M. (1993). An association between domestic violence and depression among Southeast Asian refugee women. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 180(11), 729-730.
Norton, I. M., Manson, S. M. (1995). A Silent Minority: Battered American Indian Women. Journal of Family Violence, 10 (3), 307-318.
Norton, I. M., & Manson, S. M. (1996). Research in American Indian and Alaska Native communities: Navigating the cultural universe of values and process. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64(5), 856-860.
Norton, I. M., & Manson, S. M. (1997). Domestic violence intervention in an urban Indian health center. Community Mental Health Journal, 33(4), 331-337.