Parenting Response with Offline Technology to End COVID-associated Trauma ("PROTECT")

利用离线技术结束与新冠病毒相关的创伤的育儿响应（“保护”）

• 批准号: EP/X039307/1
• 负责人: Lucie Cluver
• 金额: $ 16.47万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX039307%2F1
• 关键词: Parenting; Response; Offline; Technology; End

COVID-associated child abuse has become a chronic crisis through the intense stressors of economic upheaval, school closure, lockdown and mental health distress, alongside the inaccessibility of in-person support services. The objective of this work is to deliver proven-effective evidence-based child abuse prevention resources, to the world's most vulnerable populations during COVID-19, through a uniquely accessible and context-customised digital parenting app. This Proof of Concept project will conduct pre-post testing and qualitative piloting of our beta version "ParentApp" digital programme in South Africa and Tanzania: two countries with surging COVID rates and low vaccination coverage. If successful, the WHO and UNICEF have committed to scaling up the programme with national governments across the Global South. Remote delivery is a cost-effective feasible alternative, and ParentApp is the world's first offline-accessible, low-data parenting app; the only open-source digital parenting programme; and the only digital programme designed for low-resource settings.This project will test the feasibility and initial effectiveness of ParentApp in Tanzania and South Africa, to make improvements based on findings, and to involve national and global stakeholders to support the translation of research into innovation at scale. We will do this by: gathering feedback from users and implementers on the relevance, acceptability, satisfaction and usability of ParentApp; engaging with international and government strategic partners and implementing NGOs to understand how ParentApp can be implemented, delivered and used in their activities; generating quantitative and qualitative data to test initial effectiveness on target outcomes by evaluating at immediate post-test the effect of the programme on primary and secondary outcomes.This proposal offers ground-breaking potential for massive societal impact through building a new evidence-base in digital violence prevention.

由于经济动荡、学校关闭、封锁和心理健康困扰等强烈压力因素，加上无法获得面对面的支助服务，与新冠肺炎相关的虐待儿童已成为一种慢性危机。这项工作的目标是在COVID-19期间，通过一个独特的可访问和情境定制的数字育儿应用程序，为世界上最脆弱的人群提供经证明有效的循证儿童虐待预防资源。这个概念验证项目将在南非和坦桑尼亚对我们的测试版“ParentApp”数字计划进行前后测试和定性试点：这两个国家的新冠肺炎发病率飙升，疫苗接种覆盖率较低。如果成功，世卫组织和联合国儿童基金会承诺与全球南方各国政府一起扩大该计划。远程分娩是一种具有成本效益的可行替代方案，ParentApp是世界上第一个离线访问、低数据育儿应用程序;唯一的开源数字育儿方案;也是唯一一个为低资源环境设计的数字项目。该项目将在坦桑尼亚和南非测试ParentApp的可行性和初步效果，并根据调查结果进行改进，让国家和全球利益相关者参与进来，支持将研究转化为大规模创新。为此，我们将：收集用户和实施者对ParentApp的相关性、可接受性、满意度和可用性的反馈意见;与国际和政府战略伙伴以及实施工作的非政府组织合作，了解如何在其活动中实施、交付和使用ParentApp;生成定量和定性数据，以通过评估后立即测试目标结果的初始有效性，该提案通过在数字暴力预防方面建立新的证据基础，为产生巨大的社会影响提供了突破性的潜力。