Full Award: Health and Psychosocial Need: The Ascenze Study of Risk and Protection in Adolescence
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Funding Fogarty Program
Global Brain Disorders Research
Project Information in NIH RePORTER
Health and Psychosocial Need: The Ascenze Study of Risk and Protection in Adolescence
Principal Institution
Columbia University Health Sciences
Principal Investigator(s) (PI)
Davidson, Leslie L., Desmond, Chris
Project Contact Information
Email: lld1@columbia.edu
Year(s) Awarded
2018-2023
Country
South Africa
Collaborators
Human Sciences Research Council
NIH Partners
NIH Office Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), NIH Office of Disease Prevention (ODP)
Project Description
The Asenze study of adolescent risk and protection will investigate how early and current family and social strengths and difficulties impact the adoption by South African teenagers of risky behaviors (drug use, binge drinking, unprotected sex), behaviors that will sharply increase their chances of HIV infection and other negative outcomes such as school failure or adolescent pregnancy. We will measure their ability to think things through, to plan and to resist impulses, abilities that will affect whether or not they engage in risky behaviors. Because we will follow-up 1581 children whom we have already assessed twice in childhood, we know a great deal about them, their childhood experiences and family life and this information will be extremely useful in developing interventions to prevent harmful behaviors and to protect adolescents from becoming part of an ongoing HIV epidemic.
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