| Research Projects: On-going |
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| Healthy Passages | |
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Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Tortolero (Houston site-team) |
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Funding support: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
Dr. Wiesner's role: Co-Investigator (external) |
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Study goals: The major objective of this multi-site study, Healthy Passages™, is to investigate etiological factors related to multiple health behaviors (e.g., alcohol and other substance use, violence, mental health, physical activity, nutrition) of children. The study involves three sites (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and University of California at Los Angeles). Each site will enroll 1,750 fifth grade children across a two year period. The children will be studied biannually to age 20 and then every decade thereafter. Wave 3 data collection is currently in preparation. |
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| Childhood Risk Factors and Alcohol Use Trajectories During Adolescence | |
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Principal Investigator: Dr. Rainer K. Silbereisen |
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Funding support: German National Science Foundation (DFG) |
Dr. Wiesner's role: Co-Investigator |
| Study goals: Secondary data analysis of longitudinal data on the linkage between childhood risk factors, concurrent negative circumstances, and alcohol consumption trajectories among German adolescent boys and girls. Reanalysis of the Leipzig Schüler-Intervall Study which includes 9 waves of data collection from childhood through adolescence. | |
| Oregon Youth Study | |
| Principal Investigator:
Dr. Deborah M. Capaldi |
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| Funding support:
National Institute of Mental Health |
Dr. Wiesner's role:
N/A (external collaborator) |
| Study goals: Multi-method, multi-agent longitudinal study on Life-Course Antisocial Behavior in Males, beginning at age 9/10 and continuing until age 32-33 during the current funding period. Annual assessments of a sample of 206 at-risk boys, their parents, and other informants. | |
| Understanding Health-Risk Behaviors Among Contemporary Adolescents | |
| Principal Investigator:
Dr. Margit Wiesner |
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| Funding support:
University of Houston |
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| Study goals: One-year study on factors related to health-risk behaviors and violence exposure among high school students in the Greater Houston area. It is planned to enroll 500 11th-grade students in Fall 2009. | |
| Learning More About Intellectual Functioning and Health-Risk Behaviors in Adolescence | |
| Principal Investigator:
Dr. Margit Wiesner |
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| Funding support:
University of Houston (Small Grants Program) |
Graduate Student Research Assistants: Danya Corkin, Bobbie Koen, Ronda Reyna, Ting-Ling Sha, John Spoede |
| Study goals: One-year study on the linkage between intellectual functioning and health-risk behaviors among male high school students in the Greater Houston area. It is planned to enroll 120 male 11th-grade students in Summer 2009 | |
| Latino Youth and the Future (LYF): A Study of Health-Risking Behaviors | |
| Principal Investigators:
Dr. Margit Wiesner (UH) & Dr. Hyoun K. Kim (OSLC) |
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Co-Investigators: Dr. Consuelo Arbona (UH), Dr. Charles Kaplan (UH), Dr. Deborah Capaldi (OSLC), Dr. Josh Snodgrass (Univ. of Oregon) |
Graduate Student Research Assistants: Bretton Talbot, Sol-Angel Garcia Undergraduate Student Research Assistants: TBA |
| Funding support:
Center for Drug and Social Policy Research, University of Houston/COE, Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) |
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| Study goals: One-year study on sexual health-risking behaviors, drug use, and related problem behaviors among Latino 8th-Graders in the Greater Houston area. It is planned to enroll 30 mother-child dyads in Fall 2009. Assessment methods include structured interviews, questionnaires, videotaped discussion tasks between mother and child, and biological markers of stress (Epstein-Barr Virus antibodies, C-reactive protein, alpha-amylase). | |