The African American Non-Resident Fatherhood Program

非裔美国人非居民父亲计划

• 批准号: 7922135
• 负责人: Wrenetha A Julion
• 金额: $ 46.71万
• 依托单位: RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-27 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7922135
• 关键词: 3 year old; 5 year old; Address; African American; Age; American; Behavior; Biological; Birth; Characteristics; Chicago; Child; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Behavior; Child Development; Cognitive; Communication; Communities; Competence; Conflict (Psychology); Control Groups; Development; Effectiveness; Emotional; Evaluation; Experimental Designs; Family; Fathers; Frequencies; Gender; Goals; Health; Health Promotion; Home environment; Hospitals; Hour; Household; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Life; Measures; Mental Depression; Modeling; Modification; Mothers; Nature; Newborn Infant; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Perception; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Population; Principal Investigator; Prisons; Problem Solving; Process; Public Health; Recording of previous events; Reporting; Request for Proposals; Research; Research Design; Research Support; Rights; Self Efficacy; Social Development; Social Well-Being; Socioeconomic Status; Stress; Subgroup; Surveys; System; Target Populations; Testing; Time; Time Study; Training; United States; Unmarried; Unmarried Father; Violence; Visit; Well in self; Work; base; child well being; correctional system; demographics; design; early childhood; efficacy testing; ethnic minority population; father child interaction; father role; fatherhood; follow-up; improved; innovation; interest; men; phase 1 study; post intervention; preference; programs; psychologic; public health relevance; role model; satisfaction; self esteem; skills; social

The number of children living in homes without their fathers has grown nationally and the greatest percentage of children living apart from their fathers is found among African American (AA) families. Two thirds of all African American children in the United States live in households without their biological father. Research supports the importance of positive fathering in the lives of children. However, in order for children to benefit from their fathers¿ involvement, their relationship needs to begin early and be sustained. Research on unmarried parents reveals that over 90% of fathers are present at the child¿s birth or visit while the mother and newborn are in the hospital. Nonetheless, paternal involvement among unmarried fathers tends to decline over time. There are multiple reasons for this decline. Interviews with AANR fathers reveal that they are highly dissatisfied with the amount of involvement they have with their children. Even so, their sense of inadequacy, lack of parenting knowledge and skills, difficulty maintaining harmonious relationships with their child¿s mother, involvement in the corrections system that separates them from their children, and lack of fathering role models constrain their involvement. Dissatisfaction and disaffection among AANR fathers have been reinforced by programs designed for them but without regard to their needs, interests, and abilities as non-resident fathers. Few existing fatherhood programs have been developed with the guidance of AANR fathers. Even fewer have been empirically evaluated for their efficacy. This proposal requests support for a NINR funded study on paternal involvement in African American non-resident fathers. The purpose of this project is to develop an innovative fatherhood program for increasing and sustaining paternal involvement among AA fathers and their young children (2-5 years). AANR fathers will be convened into an advisory council and serve as key designers in the development of a video-based fatherhood program called the Chicago Fatherhood Program (CFP). This proposal builds on our prior research by (1) refining an effective and culturally relevant parent training model so that it has enhanced social and contextual validity for African American non-resident fathers in community and corrections settings, and (2) provides a real-world intervention for fathers that has as its primary aim to facilitate and sustain father involvement before father estrangement becomes entrenched and intractable. Based on extensive preliminary work with this population, it is expected that this program will include components related to child development and parenting skills; communication and problem-solving strategies; parenting self-efficacy and father self-esteem; and strategies for reducing stress. This study is consistent with the NINR¿s goal for the 21st century to address cultural and ethnic disparities in health promotion and intervention activities.

全国范围内，生活在没有父亲的家庭中的儿童数量有所增加，而与父亲分开生活的儿童所占比例最大的是非裔美国人 (AA) 家庭。美国三分之二的非裔美国儿童生活在没有亲生父亲的家庭中。研究支持积极的父亲对孩子生活的重要性。然而，为了让孩子从父亲的参与中受益，他们的关系需要尽早开始并持续下去。对未婚父母的研究表明，超过 90% 的父亲在孩子出生或探望时在场，而母亲和新生儿则在医院。尽管如此，未婚父亲中父亲的参与往往会随着时间的推移而减少。这种下降有多种原因。对 AANR 父亲的采访显示，他们对自己对孩子的参与程度非常不满意。即便如此，他们的不足感、缺乏养育知识和技能、难以与孩子母亲维持和谐关系、参与将他们与孩子分开的管教系统以及缺乏父亲榜样都限制了他们的参与。 AANR 父亲们的不满和不满因专为他们设计的计划而加剧，但没有考虑到他们作为非居民父亲的需求、兴趣和能力。现有的父亲计划很少是在 AANR 父亲的指导下制定的。对其功效进行实证评估的就更少了。该提案请求支持 NINR 资助的一项关于非裔美国非居民父亲父亲参与的研究。该项目的目的是制定一项创新的父亲计划，以增加和维持 AA 父亲及其幼儿（2-5 岁）的父亲参与。 AANR 的父亲们将被召集到一个咨询委员会中，并作为关键设计者，开发名为“芝加哥父亲计划”(CFP) 的基于视频的父亲计划。该提案建立在我们之前的研究基础上，通过以下方式：（1）完善有效且与文化相关的家长培训模型，以提高非裔美国非居民父亲在社区和惩教环境中的社会和情境有效性；（2）为父亲提供现实世界的干预，其主要目标是在父亲疏远变得根深蒂固和棘手之前促进和维持父亲的参与。基于针对这一人群的广泛初步工作，预计该计划将包括与儿童发展和养育技能相关的内容；沟通和解决问题的策略；养育自我效能和父亲自尊；以及减轻压力的策略。这项研究符合 NINR 在 21 世纪解决健康促进和干预活动中的文化和种族差异的目标。