Locating the Parents of Add Health

描述（由申请人提供）：查找添加健康的父母。该项目将评估“增加健康父母研究”（Add Health- ps）创新设计特征的可行性，该研究将收集正在进行的“全国青少年健康纵向研究”（Add Health）成员父母的数据。Add Health- ps将补充“Add Health”中已经收集的丰富的生物、遗传、社会和行为数据，并为两代家庭创造一个独特的数据来源。Add Health- ps将支持丰富的代际研究，包括Add Health受访者的在世亲生父母的数据，无论这些父母中的任何一方是否与他们一起度过了整个童年，以及任何在世的非亲生父母或在他们的生活中扮演重要养育角色的监护人。这一试点项目将评估实施“增加健康- ps理想抽样计划”的可行性。对于随机选择的Add Health受访者家庭的子样本，我们将评估：(1)定位这些父母，特别是缺席父母的可行性；(2)寻找这些父母的替代策略的成本和效果；(3)联系和采访我们能够找到的家长的能力；(4)利用创新模式寻找、联系和访谈不同类型成年子女父母的总体有效性和最佳实践。以前没有一项全国性的调查或数据收集工作是针对孩子成年后的亲生父母和非亲生父母进行定位和招募的。这项初步研究的结果将为今后发展关于家庭成员的代际数据的工作提供信息，以研究诸如离婚和单身母亲对不在家的父亲日后的健康和福祉的影响、疾病或健康状况的遗传传播以及利用两代人、基于家庭的设计的统计优势的基因-环境相互作用等问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Locating the Parents of Add Health. This project will evaluate the feasibility of an innovative design feature of the Add Health Parent Study (Add Health-PS), a study that will collect data on parents of members of the on-going National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The Add Health-PS will complement the rich biological, genetic, social and behavioral data already collected in Add Health and create a unique source of data for two generations of families. Add Health-PS will support a rich intergenerational study by including data on both living biological parents of the Add Health respondents, regardless of whether either of these parents lived with them through-out their childhood, and any living non-biological parents or guardians who played a significant parenting role in their lives. This pilot project will assess the feasibility of implementing this Ideal Samping Plan for Add Health-PS. For a randomly selected subsample of the households of the Add Health respondents, we will evaluate: (1) the feasibility of locating these parents, especially absent parents; (2) the costs and effectiveness of alternative strategies for locating these parents; (3) the ability to contact and interview the parents we are able to locate; (4) overall effectiveness and best practices using innovative models for locating, contacting and interviewing different types of parents of adult children. No previous national survey or data collection effort has targeted locating and recruiting into a study biological and non-biological parents when their children are adults. Findings from this pilot study will inform future efforts t develop intergenerational data on family members to study such issues as the consequences of divorce and single motherhood for the health and well-being of absent fathers later in life, and the genetic transmission of diseases or health conditions and gene- environment interactions that exploit the statistical advantages of two-generation, family-based designs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Locating the Parents of Add Health This project will evaluate an innovative design feature of the Add Health Parent Study (Add Health-PS), a study that will collect biological, genetic, social and behavioral data on parents of members of the on-going National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). In particular, this pilot project wil determine the feasibility of locating and interviewing parents of adult children, especially absent biological parents and non-biological parents and guardians. The results of this feasibility projec will inform the design of Add Health-PS and those of future studies that seek to improve our understanding of the intergenerational interplay in which parents and children affect each others' health and well-being across the life course.