Parenting Through Divorce: Low-Cost, Innovative Training

通过离婚养育子女：低成本、创新的培训

• 批准号: 7482513
• 负责人: Nell Caraway
• 金额: $ 48.47万
• 依托单位: IRIS MEDIA, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-10 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7482513
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Address; Affect; American; Attention; Behavioral; Buffers; Child; Classification; Communities; Condition; Conflict (Psychology); Consensus; Data; Development; Divorce; Dose; Economics; Educational Curriculum; Electronic Mail; Emotional; Evaluation; Exercise; Face; Family; Fathers; Feedback; Focus Groups; Goals; Home environment; Hour; Internet; Intervention; Iris; Knowledge; Learning; Left; Link; Maintenance; Marriage; Modeling; Mothers; Multimedia; Online Systems; Outcome; Outcome Measure; Parenting Education; Parenting behavior; Parents; Participant; Phase; Pilot Projects; Play; Prevalence; Program Acceptability; Psychological adjustment; Psychological reinforcement; Public Health; Randomized; Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials; Reporting; Resources; Risk Factors; Role; Sampling; Self Assessment; Self-Administered; Site; Stress; Testing; Time; Training; Training Programs; Work; base; cost; court; design; experience; improved; innovation; interactive multimedia; programs; resilience; self esteem; skills; social; sound; stressor; theories; tool; treatment program; usability

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Divorce is a serious public health problem. Over 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, generating family stressors that contribute to maladaptive child adjustment. The evidence is clear that providing parents with quality divorce parent education can mitigate the negative effects on children. Despite parents' key role in protecting children, many are ill-prepared for the task. Available divorce parent education programs are insufficient. Nearly 60 percent take place in one group session, leaving little opportunity for the development of lasting skills. Moreover, stressed divorcing parents face substantial barriers to attending group-based training. Most current programs do not target the variables known to buffer the negative effects of divorce and many are inaccessible to fathers. There is a need for accessible, skill-based theoretically sound, training for divorcing mothers and fathers. Self-instructional parenting programs offer a promising alternative for divorcing parents. They overcome barriers to attendance at parenting groups, and have shown promising effects in increasing parents' knowledge, efficacy, and skills. Little attention has been paid, however, to the potential value of low-cost, self-administered, interactive multimedia approaches for divorcing parents. The central aim of this project is to develop and evaluate an innovative program uniquely tailored to meet the needs of mothers and fathers during the divorce transition. If the aims are achieved, the program will provide a resilience resource to bolster parental factors known to moderate the effects of risk factors on child outcomes, thus filling a significant public health need. The program will be a self-instructional, menu-driven, online curriculum containing eight media-led lessons with engaging, realistic vignettes; exercises for self-reflection, goal-setting, and skill-building; and a managed web community for parents to share information and experiences, and access links to resources on the World Wide Web. In Phase I, we developed the first program and set up a web community room with input from divorcing mothers and fathers, the professionals who work with them, and our program consultants. We evaluated feasibility of the program by conducting a pilot study with mothers and fathers, and established the acceptability of the program with an advisory panel of professionals who specialize in the field of divorce parent education. The results of the evaluation were encouraging: parents reported significantly less conflict from pre to post and we found a significant increase in parents' sense of efficacy in using their newly learned skills and in their behavioral intentions to use them. Moreover, social validity data from parents and professionals indicate that participants found the website easy to access and navigate, the web content useful and easy to understand, and they expressed that they were able to complete tasks efficiently. We propose to expand and evaluate the program in Phase II and to conduct an experimental randomized trial of the theory-based intervention with 318 divorcing parents. PROJECT NARRATIVE Divorce is a serious public health problem. Over 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, generating family stressors that contribute to maladaptive child adjustment. This project addresses expert consensus that there is a need for accessible, theoretically sound, skill-based training for divorcing mothers and fathers.

描述（由申请人提供）：离婚是一个严重的公共卫生问题。超过50%的婚姻以离婚告终，产生家庭压力源，导致儿童适应不良。有证据表明，为父母提供高质量的离婚父母教育可以减轻对儿童的负面影响。尽管父母在保护儿童方面发挥着关键作用，但许多人对这项任务准备不足。现有的离婚父母教育方案不足。近60%的培训是在一次小组会议上进行的，几乎没有机会发展持久的技能。此外，有压力的离婚父母在参加团体培训方面面临很大障碍。大多数当前的计划都没有针对已知的可以缓冲离婚负面影响的变量，而且许多计划父亲无法获得。有必要为离婚的父母提供易于获得的、以技能为基础的理论上合理的培训。 自我指导的育儿计划为离婚父母提供了一个有希望的选择。它们克服了参加育儿小组的障碍，并在提高父母的知识、效能和技能方面显示出有希望的效果。然而，很少有人注意到离婚父母的低成本，自我管理，互动多媒体方法的潜在价值。该项目的中心目标是制定和评估一项创新方案，该方案专门针对离婚过渡期间母亲和父亲的需求。如果目标实现，该计划将提供一个弹性资源，以支持已知的父母因素，以缓和风险因素对儿童结果的影响，从而满足重大的公共卫生需求。该计划将是一个自我指导，菜单驱动，在线课程，包含八个媒体主导的教训与从事，现实的小插曲;自我反思，目标设定和技能建设的练习;和一个管理网络社区的父母分享信息和经验，并访问链接到万维网上的资源。 在第一阶段，我们开发了第一个项目，并建立了一个网络社区室，来自离婚父母的意见，与他们一起工作的专业人士，以及我们的项目顾问。我们通过与父母进行试点研究来评估该方案的可行性，并与专门从事离婚父母教育领域的专业人士组成的咨询小组建立了该方案的可接受性。评估的结果是令人鼓舞的：父母报告说，从前到后的冲突显着减少，我们发现，父母的效能感显着增加，在使用他们新学到的技能，并在他们的行为意图使用它们。此外，来自父母和专业人士的社会有效性数据表明，参与者发现网站易于访问和浏览，网站内容有用且易于理解，他们表示能够有效地完成任务。 我们建议在第二阶段扩展和评估该计划，并对318名离婚父母进行基于理论的干预的实验性随机试验。项目叙述 离婚是一个严重的公共卫生问题。超过50%的婚姻以离婚告终，产生家庭压力，导致儿童适应不良。该项目针对的是专家们的共识，即有必要为离婚的父母提供易于获得的、理论上合理的、基于技能的培训。