TABLE 1—

Descriptive Statistics for a Sample of Young, Low-Income Mothers Who Lived in New Orleans, LA, When Hurricane Katrina Occurred: United States, 2003–2018

	Mean (SD) or %
Years since the Pre-1 survey
Pre-2	1.1 (0.1)
Post-1	2.4 (0.3)
Post-2	5.1 (0.3)
Post-3	13.6 (0.7)
Age at Pre-1, y	25.6 (4.5)
Non-Hispanic Black	84.3
No. of children at Pre-1	1.8 (1.0)
Married or cohabiting at Pre-1	26.9
Received food stamps at Pre-1	67.4
Social support at Pre-1 (Social Provisions Scale, 1–4)	3.3 (0.5)
Psychological distress at Pre-1 (Kessler-6 Scale, 0–24)	5.0 (4.2)
No. of Hurricane Katrina traumas (0–10)	3.4 (2.6)
Neighborhood flooded	40.2
Relative or friend died	25.2
Lacked sufficient food	34.8
Lacked sufficient water	25.7
Could not access medications	32.6
Could not access medical care	26.8
Believed life was in danger	31.5
Did not know whether child was safe	21.7
Did not know whether another relative was safe	78.6
A relative could not access medical care	32.5

Note. Sample size n = 276. All respondents participated in 5 surveys. Pre-1, the first pre-Katrina survey, was conducted November 2003 to February 2005; Pre-2 was conducted December 2004 to August 2005. Post-Katrina surveys were conducted approximately 1 (Post-1, March 2006–March 2007), 4 (Post-2, March 2009–April 2010), and 12 years (Post-3, November 2016–December 2018) after the hurricane.