RAPID: Exploring the Effects of Parent-Child Interactions on Children’s Learning about Handwashing Behavior and Disease Prevention

RAPID：探索亲子互动对儿童学习洗手行为和疾病预防的影响

• 批准号: 2033368
• 负责人: David Sobel
• 金额: $ 10.36万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2033368&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Exploring; Effects; Parent; Child

This RAPID project will study connections between children's hygiene habits and learning about science, such as the science of disease transmission. It builds upon findings from the investigator’s prior research of parent-child interactions observed in children’s museums and will extend this research to home settings. This research will focus on understanding how goal-setting, whether it is parent-directed, child-directed, or jointly-directed, affects children’s engagement with a handwashing activity and their subsequent learning about handwashing behavior and preventing the spread of disease. More specifically, the intent is to examine how goal-setting during an interactive demonstration between parents and children relates to children’s recollection of the activity and their handwashing behavior afterwards. This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. During a pandemic, it is vital that children establish good hygiene habits and understand the importance of handwashing for the prevention of disease transmission. What is most important is that young children wash their hands frequently and follow good hygiene habits, such as using soap, when doing so. This study examines the role parents might play in engaging children to wash their hands. The project team has developed a short 10 minute intervention that parents and children can participate in while using everyday household items. Utilizing remote technology, parents and children will be guided through this intervention while video recording their behavior. Families will be presented with a structured activity for parents and children to participate in together. This activity will be focused on how handwashing, and particularly the use of soap during handwashing, helps prevent the spread of germs. Parent-child interactions will be coded using schemes for goal setting that the investigator developed in prior work. Directly after their participation and one week later, children will be asked to reflect on the activity to understand what they remember about it, and to understand whether they have encoded the importance of handwashing for preventing the transmission of disease. Parents will also be asked to track their children’s handwashing to see whether aspects of these reflections, as well as individual differences in how parents and children interact during the activity, promote better engagement with handwashing. The data generated will allow researchers to develop best practices for interventions centered on children’s handwashing and the prevention of disease transmission. Knowing such practices is critical for reintegrating children into social settings such as schools and children's museums.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个快速项目将研究儿童的卫生习惯与学习科学知识之间的联系，例如疾病传播学。它建立在调查者之前对儿童博物馆中观察到的亲子互动的研究结果的基础上，并将把这项研究扩展到家庭环境。这项研究将集中于了解目标设置，无论是父母指导、儿童指导还是共同指导，如何影响儿童参与洗手活动，以及他们随后对洗手行为和预防疾病传播的学习。更具体地说，目的是研究父母和孩子互动演示期间的目标设置与孩子对活动的回忆和之后的洗手行为之间的关系。该项目由推进非正式STEM学习计划(AISL)资助，该计划旨在促进对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。在大流行期间，至关重要的是儿童建立良好的卫生习惯，并了解洗手对预防疾病传播的重要性。最重要的是，幼儿经常洗手，并遵循良好的卫生习惯，如使用肥皂，这样做的时候。这项研究调查了父母在鼓励孩子洗手方面可能扮演的角色。该项目团队开发了一种简短的10分钟干预，父母和孩子可以在使用日常家居用品的同时参与其中。利用远程技术，父母和孩子将在视频记录他们的行为的同时，通过这种干预进行指导。将为家庭提供一个有组织的活动，让家长和孩子一起参与。这项活动将侧重于洗手，特别是洗手时使用肥皂，如何帮助防止细菌传播。亲子互动将使用研究人员在先前工作中开发的目标设置方案进行编码。在参与活动后和一周后，儿童将被要求反思该活动，以了解他们对该活动的记忆，并了解他们是否已将洗手对预防疾病传播的重要性编码。家长还将被要求跟踪孩子的洗手情况，看看这些反思的各个方面，以及父母和孩子在活动中如何互动的个体差异，是否有助于更好地参与洗手。产生的数据将使研究人员能够制定以儿童洗手和预防疾病传播为中心的干预措施的最佳做法。了解这些做法对于让儿童重新融入学校和儿童博物馆等社会环境至关重要。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。