Katrina@10 Series
The Katrina@10 Program, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, comprises three interrelated primary data collection projects. Each project focuses on a specific subpopulation uniquely affected by Hurricane Katrina:
- Households along the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast
- Low-income parents from New Orleans
- Vietnamese families living in New Orleans.
In addition, the program contains two secondary analyses of data that are more broadly representative of the overall affected population. To support and coordinate these research projects, Katrina@10 was organized around three cores: Administrative, Data Collection, and Data Management and Dissemination. The following research questions represent the studies as a whole:
- How well does the socio-ecological model of disaster recovery developed by the research team (Abramson et al. 2010) predict recovery across the three cohort studies?
- How do trajectories of long-term recovery differ among and within these sub-populations?
- How do the trajectories of recovery compare to those of mainstream populations?
- How do the effects of predisposing factors (such as poverty) and degree-of-impact (such as flooding depth) vary among the three sub-populations?
- How do interpretations of the disaster, resilience, and recovery differ among respondents?
- What are the determinants of long-term recovery in domains such as mental and physical health, socio-economic status, and community and social roles? How are these domains related to each other across individuals and across sub-populations?
Additional information about the Katrina@10 Research Projects is available on the program website.