Adversity and Resilience after Hurricane Katrina

卡特里娜飓风后的逆境和恢复力

• 批准号: 7586868
• 负责人: CHRISTINA H PAXSON
• 金额: $ 61.87万
• 依托单位: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-03-15 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7586868
• 关键词: Affect; African American; Anniversary; Child; Communities; Control Groups; Data; Disaster Planning; Disasters; Economics; Education; Educational Activities; Employment; Enrollment; Event; Exposure to; Family; Family Study; Female; Health; Hurricane; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Life; Low Income Population; Low income; Measures; Mental Health; Minority; Natural Disasters; Outcome; Outcome Measure; Parents; Participant; Pathway interactions; Policy Maker; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders; Psyche structure; Randomized; Research; Resources; Respondent; Sampling; Scholarship; Schools; Site; Social Network; Socioeconomic Status; Surveys; Symptoms; Text; Time; Trauma; United States; Work; college; coping; design; experience; follow-up; member; physical conditioning; programs; psychological distress; resilience; social; success; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this project is to examine how a group of low-income parents from New Orleans most of whom are single African American women have coped with the effects of Hurricane Katrina. The 1,019 low-income parents in our sample are part of a randomized intervention, started before Hurricane Katrina that provided members of a randomly-selected treatment group with tuition assistance and academic advising at local community colleges. Because of their participation in this study, we have pre- hurricane information on the health, social networks, and economic status of members of the treatment and control groups. We have already conducted one post-hurricane follow-up survey and set of qualitative interviews, and propose to collect another wave of data shortly after the three-year anniversary of the hurricane. Our focus will be on identifying factors that promote resilience and heighten vulnerability within this group. We will study how pre-hurricane resources and capacities defined to include mental and physical health, social networks, and economic resources affect the ability to successfully adjust to a major life trauma. We will study the factors that influence a broad set of outcomes measured over a three-year period following the hurricane, including psychological distress, symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma exposure, and the re-establishment of social networks and resumption of employment and educational activities. We will also examine how the children in these families are coping with the effects of the hurricane. Finally, we will examine whether those in the treatment group, who gained additional education prior to the hurricane, experience better post-hurricane outcomes than those in the control group. This study will contribute to our collective knowledge of the consequences of what may be the worst natural disaster experienced in the United States. The quantitative and qualitative analyses will provide empirical evidence on the effects of the disaster on the health, social and economic status of a vulnerable segment of the population: low income parents and their children. The findings of our research will be relevant to both policy-makers involved in disaster planning, and well as practitioners who treat those who have experienced disaster-related trauma.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的目的是研究来自新奥尔良的一群低收入父母如何应对卡特里娜飓风的影响。我们样本中的1,019名低收入父母是随机干预的一部分，始于卡特里娜飓风之前，该飓风为随机选择的治疗小组的成员提供了学费援助，并在当地社区学院提供了学术建议。由于他们参与了这项研究，我们提供了有关治疗和对照组成员的健康，社交网络和经济状况的飓风前信息。我们已经进行了一项赫鲁里奇后的后续调查和一系列定性访谈，并提议在飓风三周年后不久收集另一波数据。我们的重点将放在确定促进韧性并增强该组中脆弱性的因素上。我们将研究用于包括精神和身体健康，社交网络和经济资源包括成功适应重大生命创伤的能力的定义为包括精神和身体健康，社交网络和经济资源的定义。我们将研究影响飓风后三年内测得的一系列结果的因素，包括心理困扰，创伤后应激障碍症状（PTSD），创伤暴露以及社交网络的重新建立以及恢复就业和就业活动和教育活动。我们还将研究这些家庭中的孩子如何应对飓风的影响。最后，我们将研究治疗小组中接受飓风之前接受额外教育的人是否会比对照组中的后果更好。这项研究将有助于我们集体了解美国最糟糕的自然灾害的后果。定量和定性分析将提供有关灾难对人口脆弱部分健康，社会和经济状况的影响的经验证据：低收入的父母及其子女。我们的研究结果将与涉及灾难计划的决策者以及对待经历过灾难相关创伤的人的从业者有关。