# Latinx Hazardous Drinkers: Evaluating Microaggressions

> **NIH NIH K23** · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · 2024 · $187,218

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
This is an application for a Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) to support
the academic career development of the applicant. The candidate's long-term goal is to become an
independent clinical investigator and leader in the theoretical understanding, treatment, and intervention of
hazardous drinking and anxiety among Latinx persons. The applicant has conducted research on
transdiagnostic processes (predominantly anxiety sensitivity) and their association to health behavior research
(predominately focused on smoking) among non-Latinx White individuals. More recently, the applicant has
engaged in research focused on alcohol use among Latinx individuals as well as minority stress as it relates to
smoking behaviors among Latinx persons. Thus, the applicant proposes to build on her past and more recent
research experience, as well as her clinical training, in mental health and follows a logical, but novel,
progression from prior research and training experiences to development of a new area of expertise in the
design and evaluation of alcohol- and anxiety-related processes among Latinx persons who may be impacted
by minority-related stressors. Mentorship will be provided by a group of exemplar senior investigators and will
foster the candidate's development in this new area of research. The applicant proposes a comprehensive
training plan that includes development in five areas: (1) theoretical and empirical knowledge relevant to
minority stress models in the context of hazardous drinking and anxiety among Latinx adults, (2) advanced
longitudinal research design through Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA), (3) experiential avoidance
(EA) as a transdiagnostic mechanism, (4) advanced analytic training, and (5) advanced research skills in
research dissemination, leadership, and grantsmanship. Through this funding mechanism, the candidate’s
proposed study aims to: (1) examine the influence of microaggressions (MAs) – brief, subtle forms of everyday
discrimination due to racial/ethnic status – on alcohol use motivation and hazardous drinking, (2) examine the
influence of MAs on anxiety experience, (3) explore the mechanisms underlying these relations by evaluating
the indirect effects of MAs on alcohol- and anxiety-related processes via EA, and (4) explore moderators of
alcohol- and anxiety-related processes, including cultural-specific constructs (e.g., ethnic identity, familisimo,
acculturative stress among 200 Latinx adults who are hazardous drinkers. Moreover, we seek to elucidate if
MAs are distinct from, and more impactful than, non-discriminatory daily stressors and overt racism on the
proposed outcomes. This proposal is conceptualized as a prototypical example of translational research that
can explicate mechanisms from a multi-method framework to enhance our understanding of complex minority
stress and hazardous drinking and anxiety relations and serve as a catalyst for future work in this...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10930144
- **Project number:** 5K23AA030804-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
- **Principal Investigator:** Brooke Y Redmond
- **Activity code:** K23 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $187,218
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2023-09-20 → 2028-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10930144

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10930144, Latinx Hazardous Drinkers: Evaluating Microaggressions (5K23AA030804-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10930144. Licensed CC0.

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