The CVFS Young Adult Study: Methods and Findings from a 30 Month, Frequent Interview, Study of Private Topics

Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (ET)

Presenter: William Axinn

Description

Join us for the first webinar of the academic year, which will commence with a brief overview of the CVFS. Following this, we will shift our focus to the new CVFS Young Adult Study (YAS), highlighting the benefits of a mixed-mode design for longitudinal research. The CVFS-YAS uses a web-phone mixed mode design to conduct six rounds of interviews across two and half years to create a record of changes in young adult sex, contraceptive use, and substance use behaviors during early adulthood. The design allows young adults to participate no matter where they move and to switch modes to whatever is more convenient at each round. Analyses demonstrate that allowing responses by multiple modes changes both key outcome measures and substantive interpretations from multivariable models of those outcomes. Discussion will focus on potential uses of the CVFS-YAS data. All of these new measures can be linked to previous measures of these same young people, their parents and siblings, and their households and neighborhoods. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).