[StBernard] Long-term study will follow lives of Katrina survivors

Westley Annis westley at da-parish.com
Thu Jan 5 23:06:48 EST 2006


Long-term study will follow lives of Katrina survivors

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The struggles and stories of some two-thousand Hurricane
Katrina survivors across the country will be documented regularly over the
next two years in a project that aims to track their recovery. Researchers
say their tales will be published and their advice sought for government
policy makers.

Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medical School, director of the project, says the
first results are expected to be posted online by the end of February.

Participants will be interviewed every three months about such topics as
their mental and physical health, hardships in getting treatment and how
good it is, their financial and housing situations and practical problems
they face like getting a child into a new school.

They'll also be asked what they'd do about their plight if they were the
president, and what should be done differently in aid efforts. The project
will also assess their faith and trust in local, state and federal officials
as well as private relief agencies. More than one million people were
displaced from their homes by Katrina.






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