Children at Risk: A County-Based Study of Interventions

处于危险中的儿童：基于县的干预措施研究

• 批准号: 6608911
• 负责人: ROBERT L LUDKE
• 金额: $ 22.54万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-08-03 至 2006-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6608911
• 关键词: aggression; antisocial personality; behavioral /social science research tag; child abuse; child behavior disorders; child welfare; clinical research; disease /disorder proneness /risk; family structure /dynamics; health care service utilization; health services research tag; high risk behavior /lifestyle; human subject; infant human (0-1 year); interview; mental disorder prevention; mental health information system; outcomes research; preschool child (1-5); social behavior disorders; social service evaluation; socioeconomics; violence

DESCRIPTION: (adapted from Investigator's abstract) This study is a 3-year longitudinal study to examine how two sequential, county-based interventions that focus on high-risk families with children from birth to 5 years of age-Early Start and Head Start-intervene in the development and stability of pre-violent behaviors among children within an effectiveness research model. The complementary effect of these intervention programs on the development of pre-violent behaviors are examined within the context of background socio-economic, prenatal and birth risk factors, and the family environment. The proposed project will employ a quasiexperimental design and will focus on approximately 400 families with eligible children residing in Butler County, Ohio who are at risk for future developmental delay, child abuse, or neglect. Approximately 260 families with children between 30 and 47 months of age are currently receiving Early Start services. These families will be compared initially to an age- and risk-matched group of families with eligible children who have never been referred to Early Start. This comparison group will be randomly selected from state birth certificate records. The project has both an outcomes component and a database component. Outcomes Component: This component will examine the effect that these interventions and their combination have on reducing pre-violent behaviors among children during their early developmental years. In addition, we will examine the processes that influence the relationships between these interventions and children's behavior within the conceptual framework of the control paradigm. This will permit us to investigate how these interventions mediate the effects of background structural and maternal/prenatal risk factors on children's behavior and how the family environment may, in turn, mediate the effects of the interventions. Database Component: This component will develop a county-wide longitudinal database infrastructure system. This database will allow for both the analysis of multi-level data for this project and the long-term multi-level tracking of these children across other county agencies and institutions during childhood and adolescence. The database will be comprised of service utilization data from Early Start and Head Start, as well as service utilization data from other community social service agencies and secondary administrative data from county institutions (e.g., public school system, juvenile justice) as these children age. The development of this database will provide an excellent opportunity to integrate individual and institutional data for the current research project as well as provide the vehicle to follow this sample across time.

描述：（改编自研究者摘要）本研究为期3年， 一项纵向研究，旨在研究两个连续的、以县为基础的干预措施 重点关注有从出生到5岁孩子的高风险家庭， 年龄-早期开始和领先-干预的发展和稳定 在一个有效性研究模型中对儿童的暴力前行为进行研究。 这些干预方案对发展的互补作用 暴力前的行为是在背景的背景下进行检查的， 社会经济、产前和分娩风险因素以及家庭环境。 拟议的项目将采用准实验设计，并将重点放在 大约有400个家庭有合格的孩子居住在巴特勒县， 俄亥俄州有可能出现未来发育迟缓、虐待儿童或忽视儿童的人。 大约有260个有30至47个月大的孩子的家庭， 目前正在接受早期服务。这些家庭将被比较 首先是年龄和风险相匹配的有合格子女的家庭 从来没有被提到过早期开始。这个对照组将是 从州出生证明记录中随机抽取 该项目既有成果部分，也有数据库部分。成果 组成部分：本组成部分将审查这些干预措施和 他们的组合在减少儿童的暴力前行为， 他们的早期发展阶段。此外，我们还将研究 影响这些干预措施和儿童 控制范式概念框架内的行为。这将 使我们能够研究这些干预措施如何介导 背景结构和母亲/产前风险因素对儿童的行为 以及家庭环境如何反过来介导 干预措施。数据库组件：该组件将开发一个全国范围的 纵向数据库基础设施系统。该数据库将允许 本项目多层次数据分析和长期多层次 跟踪这些儿童在其他县机构和机构， 儿童和青少年时期。该数据库将由服务 来自Early Start和Head Start的利用率数据，以及服务 其他社区社会服务机构的使用数据和二级 来自县机构的行政数据（例如，公立学校系统， 少年司法），因为这些孩子的年龄。该数据库的开发将 提供了一个整合个人和机构数据的绝佳机会 为当前的研究项目，以及提供车辆遵循这一点， 时间上的样本