"THOUGHTFUL PARENTING" FOR MOTHERS AND FATHERS: DOES GENDER MATTER?

为母亲和父亲提供“贴心的养育”：性别重要吗？

• 批准号: 7335543
• 负责人: Julie Lynn Crouch
• 金额: $ 29.89万
• 依托单位: NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7335543
• 关键词: THOUGHTFUL; PARENTING; MOTHERS; FATHERS; DOES

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this study is to extend evaluation of a theoretically and empirically-based prevention program (Thoughtful Parenting: Moment to Moment, TPMM), which was designed to reduce factors associated with problems in parenting (including verbal and physical assault of children). Preliminary data from a clinical trial with at-risk mothers indicate that TPMM is effective in reducing child physical abuse risk and depressive symptoms. The proposed study was designed to extend these findings, by examining whether gender moderates TPMM effectiveness, hence the target population will include both mothers and fathers at risk for problems in parenting (n = 192). This study will further extend findings beyond that of the clinical trial conducted with at-risk mothers (which used a treatment as usual control design) by employing a parent education program as the control condition. Use of the parent education control condition will standardize opportunities for contact with other parents and facilitators across treatment and control conditions, thus providing for a more stringent test of TPMM's effectiveness. In addition to the above goals, this project will provide additional data regarding the extent to which facilitator training (extensive versus nominal) moderates TPMM's effectiveness. Activities will include a multi-site evaluation using a randomized controlled design with pre-, post-, and six month follow-up assessments. The design includes two intervention conditions (extensively versus nominally trained TPMM facilitators) and a parent education control condition. Outcomes assessed will include self reports, behavioral assessments (in-home observations), and official child maltreatment reports. It is hypothesized that across pre-, post-, and follow-up assessments, TPMM groups, but not the control group, will demonstrate significant improvements (e.g., reductions in child physical abuse risk, depressive symptoms and increased ego-strength) and that these improvements will be maintained across time.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究的目的是扩展基于理论和经验的预防项目（Thoughtful Parenting: Moment to Moment， TPMM）的评估，该项目旨在减少与养育问题（包括儿童的言语和身体攻击）相关的因素。一项针对高危母亲的临床试验的初步数据表明，TPMM在减少儿童身体虐待风险和抑郁症状方面有效。本研究旨在通过研究性别是否会影响TPMM的有效性来扩展这些发现，因此目标人群将包括有育儿问题风险的母亲和父亲（n = 192）。本研究将通过采用家长教育计划作为对照条件，进一步扩展对高危母亲进行的临床试验（采用常规对照设计的治疗）的发现。家长教育控制条件的使用将使与其他家长和辅导员在治疗和控制条件下的接触机会标准化，从而为TPMM的有效性提供更严格的测试。除了上述目标之外，该项目还将提供关于引导者培训（广泛与名义）调节TPMM有效性的程度的额外数据。活动将包括采用随机对照设计的多地点评估，包括前、后和六个月的随访评估。设计包括两种干预条件（广泛的与名义上受过训练的TPMM促进者）和家长教育控制条件。评估结果将包括自我报告、行为评估（在家观察）和官方的儿童虐待报告。假设在前后和后续评估中，TPMM组，而不是对照组，将显示出显著的改善（例如，减少儿童身体虐待风险，抑郁症状和增强自我力量），并且这些改善将随着时间的推移而保持。