Adversity and Resilience after Hurricane Katrina

卡特里娜飓风后的逆境和恢复力

• 批准号: 7352922
• 负责人: CHRISTINA H PAXSON
• 金额: $ 55.27万
• 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/7352922
• 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; Health Status; 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; Pre-study; Psyche structure; Purpose; Randomized; Research; Resources; Respondent; Sampling; Scholarship; Schools; Site; Social Network; Socioeconomic Status; Surveys; Symptoms; Text; Time; Trauma; Traumatic Stress Disorders; United States; Woman; Work; college; coping; design; experience; follow-up; member; 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（其中大多数是单身非裔美国女性）如何应对卡特里娜飓风的影响。我们样本中的 1,019 名低收入家长是卡特里娜飓风之前开始的随机干预措施的一部分，该干预措施为随机选择的治疗组的成员提供当地社区大学的学费援助和学术建议。由于他们参与了这项研究，我们获得了有关治疗组和对照组成员的健康、社交网络和经济状况的飓风前信息。我们已经进行了一次飓风后跟踪调查和一组定性访谈，并提议在飓风三周年后不久收集另一波数据。我们的重点将是确定促进该群体复原力和脆弱性的因素。我们将研究飓风前的资源和能力（包括身心健康、社交网络和经济资源）如何影响成功适应重大生活创伤的能力。我们将研究影响飓风后三年内测量的一系列广泛结果的因素，包括心理困扰、创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 症状、创伤暴露、社交网络的重建以及就业和教育活动的恢复。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，我们将检查在飓风前接受过额外教育的治疗组中的人是否比对照组中的人在飓风后获得更好的结果。这项研究将有助于我们了解美国可能经历的最严重自然灾害的后果。定量和定性分析将为灾难对人口弱势群体（低收入父母及其子女）的健康、社会和经济状况的影响提供经验证据。我们的研究结果将与参与灾害规划的政策制定者以及治疗遭受灾害相关创伤的从业者相关。