Impact of WTC on Young Children and Their Parents

世贸中心对幼儿及其父母的影响

• 批准号: 6550967
• 负责人: ELLEN R DEVOE
• 金额: $ 24.36万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-01 至 2004-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6550967
• 关键词: attitude; behavioral /social science research tag; bereavement; caregivers; child psychology; child rearing; clinical research; coping; day care center; disasters; employment /unemployment; experience; housing; human subject; interview; parents; perception; posttraumatic stress disorder; preschool child (1-5); psychological adaptation; questionnaires; social support network; urban area; violence; war /peace

The unprecendented horror of the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster is likely to result in unique and subtle effects in both parents and young children (under 5 years). Thus, the proposed study will document the complexities of young children's responses to the events of 9-11-01, with an emphasis on social- emotional and behavioral functioning, and traumatic stress reactions. The responses of caregivers, including parents and day care providers, also will be explored. With parents, we will focus specifically on describing parenting attitudes and behaviors, and perceptions of role changes since 9-11-01. With day care providers, we seek to examine day care providers' perceptions of ongoing needs for training and support as they develop long-term approaches to the disaster in their professional roles with young children. A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches will illuminate the accumulated effects of the various WTC-types of trauma (i.e., death of loved one, evacuation status, level of current dislocation from home or work, loss of employment) on parents and young children, changes in parenting attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions of parenting role, and the relationship between these presumed changes in parenting and child outcomes since 9-11-01. The proposed study will be conducted through a network of day care and early childhood centers identified through Day Care Council of New York, Inc., in New York City. A sample of 200 families will be recruited through early childhood programs. It is expected that the sample will be diverse both in terms of socio-demographic characteristics and proximity to the site of the former WTC site. The design of the proposed research includes four components: 1) Focus groups with parents (n=50); 2) In-depth interviews with parents (n=150); 3) Brief interviews with children ages 3-5 years old; and 4) Focus groups with day care providers (n=20). Given the time-sensitive nature of this project, implementation of all aspects of the research will proceed simultaneously. Based on communication with children's mental health researchers across the city, a majority of proposals developed in response to the WTC disaster are focused on school-based screening and mental health initiatives for older children and adolescents. Thus, the proposed research addresses this gap in knowledge regarding young children's responses to trauma. Findings from this preliminary research will provide critical knowledge regarding post-disaster adaptation in parents and young children in the New York City area and will inform the development of a full proposal for submission to NIMH for a longitudinal investigation of children's responses to the disaster. The proposed research will be conducted by a team of investigators from Columbia University School of Social Work and Barnard College Department of Psychology in collaboration with the Day Care Council of New York.

世界贸易中心（WTC）前所未有的恐怖灾难可能会对父母和年幼的孩子（5岁以下）产生独特而微妙的影响。因此，本研究将记录幼儿对911事件反应的复杂性，重点是社会情感和行为功能，以及创伤应激反应。还将探讨包括父母和日托提供者在内的照顾者的反应。对于父母，我们将特别关注描述父母的态度和行为，以及自911以来对角色变化的看法。与日托提供者一起，我们试图检查日托提供者对培训和支持的持续需求的看法，因为他们在与幼儿的专业角色中制定了长期的灾难处理方法。定性和定量方法的结合将阐明各种wtc类型的创伤（即亲人的死亡、撤离状态、当前离家或工作的错位程度、失业）对父母和幼儿的累积影响，父母态度、行为和对父母角色的看法的变化，以及自911以来这些假设的父母变化与儿童结局之间的关系。拟议的研究将通过纽约市纽约日托委员会确定的日托和幼儿中心网络进行。将通过早期儿童项目招募200个家庭作为样本。预计样本在社会人口特征和与世贸中心旧址的接近程度方面将是多种多样的。本研究的设计包括四个部分：1)家长焦点小组（n=50）；2)深度访谈家长（n=150）；3)对3-5岁儿童进行简短访谈；4)与日托提供者的焦点小组（n=20）。考虑到这个项目的时效性，研究的各个方面将同时进行。根据与全市儿童心理健康研究人员的沟通，为应对世贸中心灾难而制定的大多数建议都集中在以学校为基础的筛查和针对年龄较大的儿童和青少年的心理健康倡议。因此，拟议的研究解决了关于幼儿对创伤反应的知识差距。这项初步研究的结果将提供有关纽约市地区父母和幼儿灾后适应的关键知识，并将为提交给NIMH的完整提案提供信息，以便对儿童对灾难的反应进行纵向调查。这项拟议中的研究将由哥伦比亚大学社会工作学院和巴纳德学院心理学系的一组调查人员与纽约日托委员会合作进行。