Adversity and Resilience after Hurricane Katrina

卡特里娜飓风后的逆境和恢复力

基本信息

批准号：
7934991
负责人：
CHRISTINA H PAXSON
金额：
$ 18.63万
依托单位：
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2009-09-30 至 2011-09-29
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7934991
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

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

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项目摘要

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 Hurrican 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 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.

该项目的目的是研究新的一群低收入父母奥尔良大多数是单身非洲裔美国妇女卡特里娜飓风的影响。我们样本中的1,019个低收入父母是随机干预措施始于卡特里娜飓风之前，为成员提供了随机选择的治疗组，学费协助和学术咨询当地社区大学。由于他们参与了这项研究，我们有有关成员的健康，社交网络和经济状况的飓风信息治疗和对照组。我们已经进行了一个后urricane 后续调查和一系列定性访谈，并提议收集另一波飓风三周年后不久，数据。我们的重点会放在确定促进弹性并增强该组中脆弱性的因素。我们将研究赫鲁里奇前资源和能力如何定义以包括精神以及身体健康，社交网络和经济资源。成功地适应重大的生命创伤。我们将研究影响广泛的因素在飓风后三年内测得的一组结果，包括心理困扰，创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）的症状，创伤曝光以及社交网络的重新建立和恢复就业和教育活动。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，我们将研究是否在治疗小组，在飓风之前获得了额外的教育教育，与对照组相比，体验后脑后果更好。这项研究将有助于我们集体了解可能的后果是美国遇到的最糟糕的自然灾害。定量和定性分析将为灾难的影响提供经验证据脆弱人群的健康，社会和经济状况：低收入的父母及其子女。我们研究的发现将与两者相关参与灾难计划的政策制定者以及对待这些人的从业者经历了与灾难有关的创伤。