Family Based Prevention for Childhood Anxiety

候选人提议将五年的指导支持期限用于 发展儿童预防干预研究方面的专门知识。这笔赠款将支持 培训、课程工作、指导关系、实证研究等 职业发展活动。大部分培训将在JHU进行 医学院和公共卫生学院。以下目标将是 取得的成果：1)制定理论、概念和方法 了解儿童心理健康预防干预措施；2)了解 分析和解释纵向数据所需的生物统计学技能 预防研究，3)分析流行病学纵向数据集，4) 设计、实施和评估基于家庭的预防干预措施 儿童焦虑症，以及5)传播上述研究和开发的结果 一份干预拨款提案。 实现这些目标的主要研究工具包括两个相关的 预防研究。研究1的具体目的是检查并发的 父母焦虑对儿童发展的长期影响 使用现有的七年纵向数据集从 青年流行病学样本。研究2的具体目的是进行一项 以家庭为基础的预防干预措施的受控试点评估 降低目前的焦虑水平，预防焦虑的发生 焦虑的父母的后代中的疾病。

The candidate proposes to use a mentored support period of five years for developing an expertise in child prevention intervention research. The grant will support training, course work, mentored relationships, empirical research, and other career development activities. The majority of this training will occur at JHU Schools of Medicine and Public Health. The following objectives will be achieved: 1) develop a theoretical, conceptual, and methodological understanding of child mental health preventive interventions; 2) learn biostatistical skills needed to analyze and interpret data from longitudinal prevention studies, 3) analyze an epidemiological longitudinal data set, 4) design, implement, and evaluate a family-based prevention intervention for child anxiety, and 5) disseminate findings from above research and develop an intervention grant proposal. The primary research vehicle for achieving these objectives involve two related prevention studies. The specific aim of Study 1 is to examine the concurrent and long term impact of parental anxiety on children's development and functioning using an existing seven year longitudinal data set from an epidemiological sample of youth. The specific aim of Study 2 is to conduct a controlled pilot evaluation of a family-based prevention intervention for reducing current levels of anxiety and preventing the onset of anxiety disorders in the offspring of anxious parents.