Trauma, Loss, and Grief in African American Adolescents

非裔美国青少年的创伤、失落和悲伤

• 批准号: 6925059
• 负责人: ESTHER Jean JENKINS
• 金额: $ 7.45万
• 依托单位: CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-04-01 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6925059
• 关键词: African American; adolescence (12-20); anxiety; behavioral /social science research tag; child behavior; clinical research; depression; early experience; gender difference; grief; human subject; patient oriented research; posttraumatic stress disorder; psychological shock; questionnaires; violence

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is ample evidence that many African American teens are exposed to considerable violence as victims, witnesses and close others of victims. Health disparities literature suggests that black youth also will experience the loss of close others through non-violent means and are themselves at risk for illness and accident. However, the role of these types of events, particularly the loss of close others from violence and non-violence, has not been adequately investigated as a factor in behavior problems or mental health difficulties for these high risk youth. The specific aims of the study are to examine: 1) the occurrence of loss and trauma involving close others in a sample of urban adolescents; 2) the extent to which trauma involving close others, and grief, are related to mental health outcomes (PTSD, anxiety, depression) and problem behaviors (internalizing and externalizing) relative to other sources of trauma (witnessing of violence, victimization, and non-violent trauma), and; 3) gender differences in the pattern of trauma exposure and its impact. The current study will screen a sample of 260 black adolescents, in grades 6-8, at a local elementary school located in a moderately high violence, but typical, neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. Students will complete a series of standard outcome measures and a packet of instruments that have been used with similar populations to screen for trauma, loss, grief, and PTSD symptoms. The immediate goal of the study is to understand how loss and trauma associated with death and injury of close others contribute to negative outcomes for these at-risk youth. The findings will help to identify those factors that influence the well-being of black youth, and provide a clearer framework for intervention. This work is seen as a preliminary study of relationships that should be examined in a more representative sample of black youth and their caregivers using multiple methods and sources of data.

描述（由申请人提供）：有足够的证据表明，许多非裔美国青少年作为受害者，证人和其他受害者的暴力暴力。健康差异文献表明，黑人青年还将通过非暴力手段遭受亲密的丧失，并且自己有疾病和意外的风险。但是，这些类型的事件的作用，尤其是因暴力和非暴力而丧失其他人的作用，尚未被充分研究为这些高风险青年的行为问题或心理健康困难的因素。该研究的具体目的是检查：1）在城市青少年样本中，损失和创伤的发生； 2）相对于其他创伤来源（见证暴力，受害和非暴力创伤），与心理健康成果（PTSD，焦虑，抑郁）和问题行为（内部化和外部化）有关的程度与心理健康成果（PTSD，焦虑，抑郁和外部化）有关； 3）创伤暴露模式及其影响的性别差异。当前的研究将在6 - 8年级的260名黑人青少年中筛选出位于芝加哥南侧的中等高暴力但典型的当地小学。学生将完成一系列标准结果指标和一包与类似人群一起使用的乐器，以筛选创伤，损失，悲伤和PTSD症状。该研究的直接目的是了解与这些高危青年有关的损失和创伤如何导致负面结果。这些发现将有助于确定影响黑人青年福祉的因素，并为干预提供更清晰的框架。这项工作被视为对关系的初步研究，应使用多种方法和数据源在更具代表性的黑人青年及其护理人员的样本中进行研究。