The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) follows a nationally representative sample of US adolescents who were in grades 7-12 in 1994-95 through adolescence and the transition to adulthood with three in-home interviews. The goal of the research is to understand how adolescent and early adulthood experiences, behaviors, and social contexts influence well-being in young adulthood using an integrative approach that combines social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences in its research design, objectives, questions, data collection, and analysis. Current funding supports data management, data dissemination, and user support for the ongoing work being conducted by more than 2500 active Add Health researchers. Investigators propose to conduct a fourth follow-up interview with the Add Health cohort in 2007-08 when survey respondents will be aged 24-32. The combination of longitudinal social, behavioral, and environmental data with new biological data will expand the breadth of research questions that can be addressed in Add Health. Investigators have proposed significant new research on predisease pathways, gene-environment interactions, the relationship between personal ties and health, factors that contribute to resilience and wellness, the development of healthy relationships, and environmental sources of health disparities. Add Health aims to provide the research community with a broad new set of opportunities to pursue interdisciplinary science, influence social and health policy, and improve the health and well-being of young people.
Principal Investigator: Kathleen Mullan Harris
CPC Fellow Investigator: Carolyn Tucker Halpern , Jon M. Hussey , J. Richard Udry
Funding Source: NIH NICHD
Grant Number: P01-HD031921
Funding Period: 3/1/1997 - 6/30/2012
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