Name of Project: Impact of Maternal HIV on Early
& Middle Adolescents
Principal Investigator: Debra A. Murphy, Ph.
D.
Project Director: Dannie Hoffman
Funding Agency: National Institute of Mental
Health
Funding Period: April 1997-November 2007
Scope of Project: This study is an extension
and expansion of a longitudinal assessment study of mothers with
AIDS (MWAs) and their well children age 6 - 11. The cohort of
children will be transitioning to early and middle adolescence,
and the MWAs and children would continue to be followed, with
additional new measures to investigate behaviors associated with
this developmental period. We have little information about the
effects of maternal HIV on early and middle adolescents, particularly
minority youth. Early adolescence is a developmental period when
problem behaviors first emerge, and findings from our original
study suggest that having an MWA may increase negative outcomes.
For more information, contact Debra
A. Murphy.
Last updated - 07/23/2003
Last reviewed - 07/22/2003