CHILD MALTREATMENT AND PARTNER VIOLENCE: BRIDGING THE MEDICAL/SOCIAL SCIENCE GAP

描述(由申请人提供)：虐待儿童、忽视儿童和亲密伴侣暴力是美国普遍存在的、极其有害的公共卫生问题。其复杂的病因和在多个层面上对个人的影响需要多个学科的贡献，以推进预防和干预。然而，除了社会和行为科学之外，几乎没有什么培训可以鼓励生物医学或经济学等其他学科的研究人员参与这项重要的努力。这一名为“虐待儿童和伴侣暴力：弥合医学/社会科学鸿沟”的短期跨学科教育项目结合了四所大学多个学科的教师的专业知识，为年轻学者创建并实施了一个由三部分组成的教育培训计划，以促进他们对虐待儿童和/或亲密伴侣暴力的研究的发展。这项为期一年的R25由华盛顿大学布朗暴力和伤害预防研究中心和北卡罗来纳大学伤害预防研究中心与威斯康星州医学院伤害研究中心合作的两个多学科CDC伤害控制研究中心的主任领导。该项目的目标是(1)创建和实施跨学科培训方案，旨在为博士后/青年科学家学员提供基础知识，鼓励他们参与与虐待儿童和/或亲密伴侣暴力有关的行为和社会科学，包括关注伦理和测量问题；(2)为学员在培训后提供有指导的实地研究经验，帮助他们制定具体的研究计划；(3)协助学员制定和完善自己的研究计划，将他们的生物医学、临床、经济和/或其他培训结合起来，重点预防或应对虐待儿童、亲密伴侣暴力或其交叉问题；以及(4)通过促进暴力和伤害研究协会(SAVIR)将研讨会的讲座材料存档，从而在全国范围内不断提供培训材料。评价措施包括执行情况和满意度(过程)以及通过后测衡量的参与者结果及其研究计划的质量和内容。这一独特的多学科协作培训项目将有助于弥合受过健康、神经科学、遗传学、经济学、公共卫生、公共政策和其他学科培训的研究人员与受过社会行为科学培训的研究人员之间的差距，这样我们才能真正转向预防和治疗虐待儿童和亲密伴侣暴力的跨学科方法。 公共卫生相关性：虐待儿童和亲密伴侣暴力是重大的公共卫生问题，导致巨大的个人、社会和经济代价。这些公共卫生问题的多重决定性质及其对多重结果的影响要求我们超越单一学科的工作。这一独特的多学科协作培训项目“儿童虐待和伴侣暴力：弥合医学/社会科学鸿沟”将有助于弥合受过健康、神经科学、遗传学、经济学、公共卫生、公共政策和其他学科培训的研究人员之间的差距，这样我们才能真正转向跨学科的方法来预防和治疗虐待儿童和亲密伴侣暴力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Child abuse and neglect and intimate partner violence are prevalent and extremely harmful public health concerns in the United States. Their complex etiology and impacts on individuals at multiple levels necessitates contributions of multiple academic disciplines to advance prevention and intervention. Yet little training is available outside the social and behavioral sciences to encourage researchers in other disciplines such as biomedicine or economics to participate in this important effort. This short-term interdisciplinary education project "Child Maltreatment and Partner Violence: Bridging the Medical/Social Science Gap" combines the expertise of faculty from multiple disciplines across four universities to create and conduct a three-part educational training program for young scholars that will facilitate their development of research on child maltreatment and/or intimate partner violence. This one-year R25 is led by the directors of two multidisciplinary CDC Injury Control Research Centers, the Brown Center for Violence and Injury Prevention at Washington University and the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center in collaboration with the Injury Research Center at the Medical College in Wisconsin. The aims of the project are to (1) create and implement an interdisciplinary training program designed to provide post-doctoral/young scientist trainees with the foundational knowledge to encourage their participation in behavioral and social science related to child maltreatment and/or intimate partner violence, including attention to ethical and measurement issues; (2) provide mentored, field research experiences for trainees after their training to help them develop concrete research plans; (3) assist trainees in developing and refining their own research plan to integrate their biomedical, clinical, economic and/or other training to focus on the prevention of or response to child maltreatment, intimate partner violence or their intersection; and (4) provide ongoing nationwide access to training materials by archiving lecture material from the seminars via the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR). Evaluation measures include implementation and satisfaction (process) as well as participant outcomes measured through post-tests and the quality and content of their research plans. This unique multi-disciplinary collaborative training project will help bridge gaps between researchers trained in health, neuroscience, genetics, economics, public health, public policy and other disciplines with those trained in social behavioral sciences so we can truly move to a transdisciplinary approach to preventing and treating child maltreatment and intimate partner violence. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Child maltreatment and intimate partner violence are significant public health concerns that result in tremendous personal, social and economic costs. The multi-determined nature of these public health concerns and the impact on multiple outcomes requires we move beyond work in single disciplines. This unique multi-disciplinary collaborative training project, "Child Maltreatment and Partner Violence: Bridging the Medical/Social Science Gap" will help bridge gaps between researchers trained in health, neuroscience, genetics, economics, public health, public policy and other disciplines so we can truly move to a transdisciplinary approach to preventing and treating child maltreatment and intimate partner violence.