Adversity and Resilience after Hurricane Katrina

卡特里娜飓风后的逆境和恢复力

• 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
• 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

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.

这个项目的目的是研究一群来自纽约的低收入父母如何 新奥尔良的大多数人都是单身的非洲裔美国妇女， 卡特里娜飓风的影响。我们样本中的1,019名低收入父母是一个 在卡特里娜飓风之前开始的随机干预， 随机选择的治疗组，学费援助和学术咨询， 地方社区学院由于他们参与了这项研究，我们已经预先- 有关成员的健康、社交网络和经济状况的信息 治疗组和对照组。我们已经进行了一次飓风后 跟踪调查和定性访谈集，并提出收集另一波 飓风三周年后不久的数据。我们的重点将放在 查明促进这一群体的复原力和增加其脆弱性的因素。 我们将研究飓风前的资源和能力是如何定义的， 身体健康、社交网络和经济资源影响着 成功地适应了重大的生活创伤我们将研究影响广泛的 飓风过后三年期间衡量的一系列成果，包括 心理困扰，创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）的症状，创伤 暴露，以及重新建立社交网络和恢复就业 和教育活动。我们还将研究这些家庭的孩子是如何 应对飓风的影响最后，我们将研究那些在 治疗组，在飓风之前接受了额外的教育， 飓风过后的结果要比对照组好。这项研究将有助于我们对可能造成的后果的集体认识。 这是美国经历过的最严重的自然灾害。定量和 定性分析将提供经验证据，说明灾害对 人口中弱势群体的健康、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这两方面有关。 参与灾害规划的政策制定者，以及治疗这些疾病的从业人员， 经历过与灾难有关的创伤。