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.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358). Click the link below to register.
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvcu-ppzMqGNal4R5ewdcE3m5UIzA3Urtm

About the CVFS Webinar Series:
Attend the webinars to learn more about the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS), other research happening at the Institute for Social and Environmental Research – Nepal (ISER-N), and data creation for global and comparative population research. Visit the CVFS website to register for upcoming webinars or view past webinars. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).