Locating the Parents of Add Health

描述(申请人提供)：寻找Add Health的父母。该项目将评估Add Health Parent Study(Add Health-PS)创新设计特色的可行性，该研究将收集正在进行的国家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，并为两代家庭创建一个独特的数据源。ADD Health-PS将支持丰富的代际研究，包括ADD Health受访者在世的亲生父母的数据，无论这些父母是否与他们一起度过童年，以及在他们的生活中发挥重要育儿作用的在世的非亲生父母或监护人的数据。该试点项目将评估为Add Health-PS实施这一理想抽样计划的可行性。对于随机抽取的Add Health受访者家庭中的一部分，我们将评估：(1)寻找这些父母，特别是不在身边的父母的可行性；(2)寻找这些父母的替代策略的成本和有效性；(3)联系和采访我们能够找到的父母的能力；(4)使用创新模式寻找、联系和访问不同类型的成年子女父母的整体效果和最佳做法。以前的国家调查或数据收集工作都没有针对子女成年后的亲生父母和非亲生父母进行定位和招募。这项试点研究的结果将为今后开发关于家庭成员的代际数据的努力提供信息，以研究离婚和单身母亲对晚年缺席父亲的健康和福祉的影响，以及疾病或健康状况的遗传传播，以及利用两代家庭设计的统计优势的基因-环境相互作用。

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.