Dogs and Children's Development in a Northern Plains Tribe

北部平原部落的狗和儿童的发展

• 批准号: 8207487
• 负责人: PAUL G SPICER
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8207487
• 关键词: Address; Advocate; American Indians; Animal Welfare; Animals; Canis familiaris; Capital; Child; Child Development; Child Welfare; Communities; Control Animal; Dog Bite; Economics; Emotional; European; Faculty; Family; Family Practice; Fright; Future; Goals; Grant; Human; Indian reservation; Intervention; Knowledge; Leadership; Letters; Life; Literature; Modeling; Montana; Moral Development; North America; Northern Plains Tribe; Oklahoma; Outcome; Ownership; Police; Positioning Attribute; Public Health; Recording of previous events; Reporting; Research; Reservations; Rural; Safety; Societies; Thinking; Universities; Work; animal care; animal-assisted therapy; base; community setting; design; ethnographic method; experience; improved; member; multidisciplinary; news; overpopulation; preference; social; social capital; therapy development; tribal member

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): While the field of human-animal interaction (HAI) has made important advances in recent years, engagement with the full range of children's experiences with animals in community settings has yet to occur, and work in rural American Indian reservations is an especially notable gap. Given the extent of roaming dogs in many of these communities, there are significant questions about the extent to which models of HAI based on pet ownership may be applicable to thinking about how dogs can address children's needs. This project builds upon a partnership between faculty and staff from the University of Oklahoma's Center for Applied Social Research and members of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana, who are leading an effort to restore respectful relationships between their children and their dogs. The project has three specific aims: 1) to explore the meaning of dogs to contemporary Blackfeet families; 2) to describe interactions between dogs and children in contemporary Blackfeet communities; and 3) to articulate a model for improving interactions with dogs with the goal of improving children's outcomes. As a small grant, with the primary aim of generating knowledge to support intervention development, the project utilizes participatory and ethnographic methods, but does so with the express goal of supporting larger multidisciplinary efforts in the future. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project seeks to address two potentially related public health problems in American Indian communities: large numbers of roaming dogs, which threaten children's safety and compromise social capital in reservation communities, and poor socioemotional outcomes for American Indian children. Recent research by the PI suggests that these two dynamics may well be related, and therefore amenable to coordinated intervention seeking to improve animal control and children's outcomes. If successful, the project has important implications for American Indian communities as well as the field of human-animal interaction, which has not, to date, engaged issues related to dogs in American Indian communities.

描述(申请人提供)：尽管人与动物互动(HAI)领域近年来取得了重要进展，但在社区环境中参与儿童与动物的全面体验尚未发生，在美洲印第安人保留地农村地区工作是一个特别显著的差距。考虑到这些社区中许多流浪狗的数量，基于宠物饲养的HAI模型在多大程度上适用于思考狗如何满足儿童的需求，这是一个重大的问题。该项目建立在俄克拉荷马大学应用社会研究中心的教职员工和蒙大拿州黑脚族成员之间的合作基础上，他们正在领导一项努力，以恢复他们孩子和他们的狗之间的尊重关系。该项目有三个具体目标：1)探索狗对当代黑脚家庭的意义；2)描述当代黑脚社区中狗与儿童之间的互动；3)阐明一个改善与狗互动的模式，目标是改善儿童的结果。作为一笔小额赠款，该项目的主要目的是产生支持干预措施发展的知识，利用参与性和人种学方法，但这样做的明确目标是支持未来更大规模的多学科努力。 公共卫生相关性：该项目旨在解决美国印第安人社区中两个潜在的相关公共卫生问题：大量流浪狗，它们威胁到保留社区的儿童安全并损害社会资本，以及美国印第安人儿童不良的社会情感结果。PI最近的研究表明，这两个动态很可能是相关的，因此可以进行协调干预，以寻求改善动物控制和儿童结果。如果成功，该项目将对美国印第安人社区以及人与动物互动领域产生重要影响，到目前为止，该领域尚未涉及美国印第安人社区中与狗有关的问题。