Call for Papers: The 2006 Add Health Users Conference
ADD HEALTH
The National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health
(Add Health) was mandated by Congress to collect data for the purpose
of measuring the impact of social environment on adolescent health. It
examines the general health and well-being of adolescents in the United
States, including, with respect to these adolescents, (1) the behaviors
that promote health and the behaviors that are detrimental to health;
and (2) the influence on health of factors particular to the communities
in which adolescents reside. Sociometrics is responsible for distribution
of the public-use versions of Add Health.
- More information on Waves I & II.
- More information on Wave III
- More information on Wave III, Public Use Education Data.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Users of data from the National Longitudinal Study of
Adolescent Health (Add Health) are invited to submit abstracts for the
seventh Add Health Users Conference, to be held July 17-18, 2006, in Bethesda,
Maryland. The conference is being organized by Add Health at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and by the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development.
We welcome all papers using Add Health data but we especially encourage submissions that use Wave III data in a longitudinal or cross-sectional design and papers that use new educational data from high school transcripts. Research on the following topics are also encouraged:
- substance use
- reproductive health
- sexual behavior
- sexually transmitted diseases
- obesity and overweight
- health care and health services
- health and health behaviors of minority populations
- environmental stressors and health-related behaviors
- mental health (e.g., depression, suicidality)
- genetic and environmental influences on health and behavior
- effects of adolescent environments on health, family, educational, and work trajectories
- delinquency/ crime trajectories
- school achievement and higher education/labor force participation
- outcomes connected to adolescent exposure to violence/abuse
- parenting or union and family formation.
Abstracts are invited on both substantive and methodological topics. Please complete the Abstract Submission Form, http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/news, by April 14. For a substantive presentation, describe the outcomes you are examining, the hypotheses you are testing, the Add Health interview waves and data sets you are using, and your research plan, including key variables and analytic approach. For a methodological presentation, provide a similar level of detail in the context of your aims and analytic approach. In either case, please give a reasonable estimate of the results you will have to share in July.
Required summary abstracts are restricted to 250 words. We will review abstracts and inform presenters by May 15. If selected, the submitted abstract will be distributed during the conference.
On the Abstract Submission Form please indicate your preferences for didactic and/or breakout sessions on methodological issues in Add Health.
Although participants must generally provide for their own travel and expenses, NICHD will have available a limited number of travel stipends. Because of funding constraints, travel stipends are only available to individuals without other sources of funding to attend the conference. Eligibility for these is reserved for individuals currently enrolled in predoctoral or postdoctoral training and individuals who completed their doctoral training within the last five years at time of submission. Stipends will be awarded on the basis of scientific merit and research on an underrepresented topic. You must indicate your interest in being considered for a stipend on the abstract form.
We look forward to hearing from you and learning about your research based on the Add Health study.
Kathleen Mullan Harris, PhD
kathie_harris@unc.edu
Rosalind King, PhD
kingros@mail.nih.gov
Christine Bachrach, PhD
bachracc@exchange.nih.gov