Early Prevention of Youth Violence Among Foster Children

早期预防寄养儿童中的青少年暴力

• 批准号: 7019653
• 负责人: LOURDES ORIANA LINARES
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2008-08-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7019653
• 关键词: African American; Hispanic Americans; aggression; behavior modification; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; child abuse; child behavior disorders; child foster care /adoption; child psychology; child rearing; clinical research; cooperative study; data collection methodology /evaluation; early experience; field study; human subject; human therapy evaluation; interview; longitudinal human study; middle childhood (6-11); outcomes research; social behavior disorders; social psychology; socializations; violence prevention

DESCRIPTION (adapted from applicant's abstract): Little attention has been given to the promotion and dissemination of effective childhood violence prevention for young (< 10 years of age) urban African American and Latino maltreated children raised in foster homes, despite the strong linkages between early childhood aggression and later youth violence. Promising findings with 128 biological and foster families in New York City demonstrated improvement in positive parenting, supportive co-parenting, and trends for lower child behavior problems for caregivers receiving a newly developed two-component (parenting and co-parenting) family intervention. Preliminary studies support the feasibility of training foster care staff in manualized interventions delivered in their agency, retaining families through the duration of the intervention, and obtaining high ratings of consumer satisfaction. The PI proposes to adapt, integrate, and experimentally evaluate a child-centered intervention of two existing, protocol-driven, empirically-supported child programs (The Dina Dinosaur's Curriculum for Young Children Social Skills and Problem Solving and the Kids Club: An Intervention Group for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence). The project will: (1) examine the short-term impact of the 12-week child intervention on the reduction of early physical aggression and its correlates (problems in social competence, emotional regulation, and social cognitions about violence) in the foster home, and classroom; and the reduction of foster placement instability; and (2) explore the impact of quality of implementation (dosage and adherence), and initial level of child aggression on intervention effects. Strong community networks are established with volunteering foster care agencies in New York City to accomplish the aims of this project. The sample consists of 102 foster children (ages 5-8 years) with substantiated neglect, exposure to domestic violence or physical abuse nested within six agencies. A randomized field trial will be used to assign children to the intervention (n=62) or a 'usual care' comparison (n=40) condition. Primary outcomes include measures of early physical aggression and behavior correlates, and the stability of the placement assessed by multiple agents (the child, foster parent, trained observer, and teacher) and across settings (foster home, classroom) at pre-test, post-test, and 3 months follow-up.

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：很少有人关注促进和传播有效的儿童暴力预防年轻（< 10岁）城市非洲裔美国人和拉丁美洲受虐待的儿童在寄养家庭长大，尽管幼儿期的攻击和后来的青年暴力之间有很强的联系。在纽约市的128个生物和寄养家庭的研究结果表明，积极的养育，支持性的共同养育，以及接受新开发的两个组成部分（养育和共同养育）家庭干预的照顾者的儿童行为问题的趋势有所改善。初步研究支持培训寄养工作人员在他们的机构提供手动干预的可行性，通过干预的持续时间保留家庭，并获得消费者满意度的高评级。PI建议调整，整合和实验性地评估两个现有的，协议驱动的，以儿童为中心的干预措施，医疗支持的儿童计划（Dina Dinosaur的幼儿社会技能和解决问题的课程和儿童俱乐部：暴露于家庭暴力的儿童干预小组）。该项目将：（1）研究12周儿童干预对减少早期身体攻击及其相关因素的短期影响（社会能力、情绪调节和对暴力的社会认知方面的问题）;减少寄养安置的不稳定性;（2）探讨实施质量（剂量和依从性）和儿童初始攻击水平对干预效果的影响。与纽约市的志愿寄养机构建立了强大的社区网络，以实现该项目的目标。样本包括102寄养儿童（年龄5-8岁）与证实忽视，暴露于家庭暴力或身体虐待嵌套在六个机构。将使用随机现场试验将儿童分配到干预（n=62）或“常规护理”比较（n=40）条件。主要结果包括早期身体攻击和行为相关性的措施，以及由多个代理人（儿童，养父母，受过训练的观察员和教师）和跨设置（寄养家庭，教室）在测试前，测试后和3个月随访评估的安置的稳定性。