Fathers, Child Mental Health, and Maltreatment in the Child Welfare System

父亲、儿童心理健康和儿童福利系统中的虐待

• 批准号: 8693430
• 负责人: Lynsay Ayer
• 金额: $ 8.92万
• 依托单位: RAND CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-04-01 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8693430
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Affect; Age; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Attention; Biological; Caregivers; Characteristics; Child; Child Abuse; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Mental Health; Child Welfare; Data; Development; Family; Fathers; Female; Funding; Gender; Goals; Health Services Needs; Home environment; Intervention; Investigation; Knowledge; Lead; Life; Literature; Medical; Men' s Role; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Mothers; National Institute of Mental Health; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Personal Satisfaction; Policy Maker; Population; Prevention; Prevention program; Principal Investigator; Probability; Public Health; Relative (related person); Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Risk; Risk Factors; Role; Safety; Sampling; Surveys; System; Training Programs; Weight; Woman; Youth; base; career; caregiving; depressive symptoms; design; direct application; father role; follow-up; high risk; improved; intervention program; intimate partner violence; investigator training; male; maltreated children; maltreatment; men; modifiable risk; perpetrators; prevent; programs; public health relevance; skills; stem

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Youth in the child welfare system (CWS) are at very high risk for mental health problems and re-reports of maltreatment, and have greater mental health service needs compared to their peers.1,2 Parental characteristics such as depression, substance use, and parenting behaviors have been shown to predict child mental health and re-reports of maltreatment.3-7 However, the vast majority of this research has focused on mothers rather than fathers. Research on fathers' influences on youth in the CWS is needed to inform development of strategies to successfully engage fathers in intervention efforts. The proposed study will fill this major gap in the literature by identifying father-related risk factors for chid mental health and maltreatment using existing data from a longitudinal, national probability study of children and families investigated for child maltreatment (NSCAW-II). The specific aims of the study are to: (1) Describe the men who are primary in-home caregivers for children in the child welfare system and compare them to female in-home caregivers and men who are secondary caregivers; (2) Determine whether fathers' mental health and parenting predict child mental health outcomes and re-reports of maltreatment at 18 month follow up, and whether these associations differ by child age and gender; and (3) Compare fathers and a weighted sample of mothers on how parental risk factors (e.g., ineffective parenting, mental health problems) relate to child outcomes (mental health, maltreatment). Study findings will help to tailor existing prevention and intervention programs, which have been generally designed to target mothers, to better engage and address fathers who are caregivers for youth in the child welfare system. Given the high rates of medical and mental health problems of this population, these findings may have significant positive impacts on public health.

说明(申请人提供)：儿童福利系统(CWS)中的青少年精神健康问题和再次报告虐待的风险非常高，与他们的同龄人相比，他们有更大的精神健康服务需求。1、2父母的特征，如抑郁、药物使用和育儿行为，已被证明可以预测儿童的心理健康和再次报告虐待。3-7然而，这项研究的绝大多数集中在母亲而不是父亲。需要对儿童福利委员会中父亲对青年的影响进行研究，以便制定成功地让父亲参与干预努力的战略。这项拟议的研究将填补文献中的这一主要空白，方法是利用纵向的全国性虐待儿童和家庭概率研究(NSCAW-II)的现有数据，确定与父亲有关的儿童心理健康和虐待的风险因素。这项研究的具体目的是：(1)描述在儿童福利系统中作为儿童的主要家庭照料者的男性，并将他们与女性家庭照料者和作为次要照料者的男性进行比较；(2)确定父亲的精神健康和养育方式是否可以预测儿童的心理健康结果和在18个月后再次报告虐待行为，以及这些关系是否因儿童年龄和性别而不同；以及(3)比较父亲和母亲的加权样本，了解父母的风险因素(例如，父母教养不力、精神健康问题)与儿童结果(精神健康、虐待)的关系。研究结果将有助于调整现有的预防和干预计划，这些计划通常是针对母亲设计的，以更好地吸引和解决在儿童福利系统中照顾青少年的父亲的问题。鉴于这一人群的医疗和精神健康问题发生率很高，这些发现可能会对公众健康产生重大的积极影响。