Adversity and Resilience after Hurricane Katrina

卡特里娜飓风后的逆境和恢复力

• 批准号: 8244517
• 负责人: Mary C Waters
• 金额: $ 9.88万
• 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 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8244517
• 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; 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

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一群来自新城的低收入父母如何 奥尔良人——其中大多数是单身非洲裔美国女性——已经应对了这一问题 卡特里娜飓风的影响。我们样本中的 1,019 名低收入父母属于 在卡特里娜飓风之前开始的随机干预，为 随机选择的治疗组，提供学费援助和学术建议 当地的社区学院。由于他们参与了这项研究，我们预先 有关成员健康、社交网络和经济状况的飓风信息 治疗组和对照组。我们已经开展了一场飓风过后的活动 后续调查和一组定性访谈，并建议收集另一波 飓风三周年纪念日后不久的数据。我们的重点将是 确定促进该群体复原力和脆弱性的因素。 我们将研究如何定义飓风前的资源和能力，其中包括心理 以及身体健康、社交网络和经济资源——影响能力 成功地适应了重大的生活创伤。我们将研究影响广泛的因素 飓风发生后三年内衡量的一系列结果，包括 心理困扰、创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 症状、创伤 暴露、重建社交网络和恢复就业 和教育活动。我们也会检查这些家庭的孩子怎么样 应对飓风的影响。最后，我们将检查那些在 治疗组在飓风之前接受了额外的教育， 与对照组相比，飓风后的结果更好。这项研究将有助于我们了解可能发生的后果的集体知识 成为美国经历过的最严重的自然灾害。定量和 定性分析将为灾难对经济的影响提供经验证据 弱势群体的健康、社会和经济状况：低 有收入的父母及其子女。我们的研究结果将与两者相关 参与灾害规划的政策制定者以及治疗这些灾害的从业人员 经历过与灾难相关的创伤的人。