DOI: 10.3886/icpsr39335
title: Katrina@10: Resilience in Survivors of Katrina Project (RISK) Subsample, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005-2019
title: Archival Version

description: The NIH-funded KATRINA@10 Program consists of an interrelated set of three primary data collection projects that focus on specific sub-populations who were uniquely affected by Hurricane Katrina: households along Louisiana and Mississippi's Gulf Coast, low-income parents from New Orleans, and 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, and three cores (Administrative, Data Collection, Data Management and Dissemination) to support the set of research projects. The following research questions represent the studies together 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?

This collection contains data from the Resilience in Survivors of Katrina (RISK) Project, which was a longitudinal study of low-income parents who lived in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina (August 2005). The initial study design was intended to increase educational attainment among college students, measuring economic status, social ties, and mental and physical health starting in 2003 (initial cohort n=1,019). However, with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the research design evolved to study the consequences of a disaster for the lives of vulnerable individuals and their families. Follow-up surveys and in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with participants at one year and five years post-Katrina, regardless of where participants lived.
The data in this collection is from the most recent survey follow-up with RISK Project participants (n=716), conducted between 2016 and 2018. A public-use version (DS1) and restricted-use version (DS2) are available. Open-ended responses and continuous variables for respondent age and total household income have been masked in the public-use version; these items are available in the restricted-use version.
description: The purpose of the Resilience in Survivors of Katrina (RISK) Project was to study the economic, social, and health impact of natural disasters, specifically Hurricane Katrina, on the lives of low-income parents and their families.
The purpose of the overall Katrina@10 project was to analyze three separate studies on sub-populations uniquely affected by Katrina under a single theoretical framework for disaster recovery.
description: <strong>Resilience in Survivors of Katrina (RISK) Project specific design.</strong> The initial study design was an experiment in which community college students in New Orleans (1 site of 10 total in the United States) were randomly assigned to receive a $1000 scholarship for maintaining passing grades or no scholarship (total n=1,019, 50/50 split by condition). The baseline data collection occurred in 2004. Hurricane Katrina disrupted telephone survey data collection at the one-year follow-up (2005), with about half (492) of the original participants surveyed prior to the storm. Post-Katrina, the RISK project staff were able to follow-up with 86 percent of the original participants, many of whom had moved away from New Orleans, and conduct two follow-up surveys plus two rounds of in-depth qualitative interviews (Wave 2: 2005-2006; Wave 3: 2010).
The current study followed up with participants at least 10 years post-Katrina (2016-2018). Surveys were conducted by phone, in-person, or online via Qualtrics.
description: Housing and residential mobility post-Katrina
Physical and mental health, including chronic health conditions, health insurance coverage, mobility limitations
Social capital and resources, including organizational memberships, racial/ethnic community ties, relationships with friends, family members, and mentors
Risk behaviors (smoking, consuming sugary drinks), other traumatic experiences over the lifetime (including sexual assault/rape, arrest, being charged with a crime, serious injuries or life-threatening illnesses)
Family dynamics
Financial constraints
Neighborhood conditions, specifically perceptions of safety, disorder, and cohesion
Child-specific items reported by the respondent (mental and physical health, chronic conditions, insurance coverage, risky behaviors, temperament)
Recovery and outlook, including sense of purpose, role of religion/spirituality, change of priorities, and other changes in behavior/beliefs as a result of Hurricane Katrina
Recent experiences (circa 2016) with natural disasters, such as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
Demographics, including household income, marital status, employment status, education level, social benefits receipt, race, and sex
description: Presence of Common Scales: 
General Self Efficacy Scale (GSE)
Flourishing Scale
Impact of Events Scale - Revised (IES-R)
Kessler-6 (K6)
Life Events Checklist
Perceived Social Support
Physical Neighborhood Disorder
Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI)
Sense of Community Index
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
Short Form Health Survey (SF-12v2)
Social Neighborhood Disorder
description: Resilience in Survivors of Katrina (RISK) started with a sample of 1,019 low-income parents from New Orleans enrolled in a study designed to increase educational attainment among community college students. To be eligible for the initial study, participants had to be single parents, aged between 18-34, earn less than 200 percent of poverty level, and enrolled at community college.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Public-Use Data
DS2: Restricted-Use Data
description: Low-income parents who lived in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina.
description: face-to-face interview; telephone interview; web-based surveyFor more information on the Katrina@10 Project, please visit the project website.
Additional information on the Resilience in Survivors of Katrina (RISK) Project, including consent forms and questionnaires from previous data collection waves, is available through the RISK Project website.