Violence Exposure Outcomes in Children with Disabilities

残疾儿童遭受暴力的后果

基本信息

批准号：
6781479
负责人：
Patricia Maureen Sullivan
金额：
$ 52.54万
依托单位：
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2004
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2004-07-01 至 2009-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed project is designed to fill a gap in the existing knowledge about the consequences of violence exposure in childhood by studying a prospectively derived sample of adults with records of a disability, exposure to domestic violence, and residing in a census tract associated with high rates of community violence in childhood and a comparable non-exposed sample drawn from the same population. The purpose of the project is to determine whether there are specific and general adverse long-term mental health, posttraumatic stress, and antisocial consequences to childhood violence exposure among adults with an identified childhood disability. Resiliency to violence exposure in childhood will also be studied. Project objectives include determining the moderating role of age at exposure, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and childhood disability status in the occurrence of adverse long-term outcomes. Violence characteristics, community characteristics, family of origin characteristics, and out-of-home placement will be evaluated as outcome mediators. The researchers have access to an extensive database, dating from the early 1980's, that includes the Nebraska Central Child Abuse Register, the Foster Care Review Board, which includes records of all children placed in foster care due to adverse home environments, as well juvenile and adult law enforcement databases. Cohorts of adults with and without childhood records of diagnosed disabilities, domestic violence in the home, childhood residence in violent neighborhoods, and child maltreatment will be recruited from 40,211 public school records in Douglas County, Nebraska during the 1994-95 school year. Some 79 percent are now 19 years of age or older, 20% have a record of domestic violence in the home, and 32 percent resided in a high violence neighborhood during childhood. A total of 500 subjects comprised of 250 disabled and 250 non-disabled adults will be recruited throughout the five years of the project from eight subject pools obtained from electronic data mergers between the total school population and the violence exposure and disability databases. Subjects will be given a battery of interviews and tests to obtain self-report data on childhood violence exposure, violence victimization, and current adulthood psychopathology, posttraumatic stress, and antisocial status. This will allow the identification of both risk and protective factors for the violence exposure outcomes in a disabled population and identify targets to guide prevention and intervention efforts.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的项目旨在通过研究具有残疾记录，家庭暴力暴露的成年人样本，居住在家庭暴力的记录中，并居住在与童年中的高度社区暴力相关的人口普查率和从童年中造成的可比性非暴露样本相关的人口普查，并居住在童年的现有知识中存在空白。该项目的目的是确定是否存在特定的不良心理健康，创伤后压力以及对儿童残疾儿童残疾的儿童暴力暴露的反社会后果。还将研究对童年暴力暴露的弹性。项目目标包括确定年龄在暴露，性别，种族，社会经济地位和儿童残疾状况中的调节作用。暴力特征，社区特征，起源家族和户外安置将被评估为结果介体。研究人员可以使用1980年代初期的广泛数据库，其中包括内布拉斯加州中央儿童虐待登记册，寄养审查委员会，其中包括由于不利的家庭环境而置于寄养的儿童的记录，以及少年和成人执法数据库。在1994-95学年期间，将从内布拉斯加州道格拉斯县的40,211个公立学校记录中招募，将招募有或没有童年记录的有或没有儿童记录的成年人，有或没有童年的残疾记录，家庭暴力，暴力社区的童年住所和虐待儿童。现在约有79％的年龄在19岁以上，有20％的房屋记录了家庭暴力的记录，而在童年时期，有32％的人居住在高暴力社区。在该项目的五年中，总共将招募500名由250名残疾人和250名非贫困成年人组成的受试者，这些受试者将从八个主题库中招募，这些受试者是从总学校人口与暴力暴露和残疾数据库之间的电子数据合并中获得的八个受试者。将向受试者提供一系列访谈和测试，以获取有关儿童暴力暴露，暴力受害以及当前的成年心理病理学，创伤后压力和反社会状态的自我报告数据。这将允许识别残疾人人口暴力暴露成果的风险和保护因素，并确定指导预防和干预工作的目标。