Research Center for Child Well-Being

儿童福祉研究中心

• 批准号: 10361404
• 负责人: RONALD J PRINZ
• 金额: $ 222.44万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10361404
• 关键词: Address; Adolescence; Adolescent obesity; Adult; Affect; Age; Aggressive behavior; Area; Back; Behavior; Behavior Disorders; Behavioral; Cardiovascular Diseases; Centers of Research Excellence; Child; Child Behavior; Child Development; Child Mental Disorders; Child Welfare; Childhood; Clinical Trials; Communities; Core Facility; Depression and Suicide; Devices; Diabetes Mellitus; Discipline; Dropout; Emotional; Emotional disorder; Ensure; Environment; Faculty; Family; Fostering; Goals; Habits; Health; Health Promotion; High Prevalence; Impairment; Informal Social Control; Infrastructure; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Joints; Life Style; Link; Logistics; Low income; Mental Health; Mental disorders; Mentors; Mission; Obesity; Outcome; Phase; Physical activity; Population; Prevalence; Prevention; Prevention Research; Problem behavior; Psyche structure; Public Health; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Support; Risk; Risk Factors; Schools; Scientist; Seeds; Sleep; South Carolina; Stigmatization; Student Dropouts; Teenagers; Universities; Work; adult obesity; adverse outcome; community engagement; data management; dietary; emotion dysregulation; evidence base; implementation intervention; improved; infrastructure development; innovation; low socioeconomic status; mental development; middle childhood; next generation; obesity in children; obesogenic; physical inactivity; poor sleep; prevent; preventive intervention; programs; recruit; social; substance use; success; unhealthy lifestyle

The prevalence rates for children’s mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders, as well as for childhood obesity, are at alarmingly high levels and constitute major public health concerns. To address these critical problems in childhood, the University of South Carolina Research Center for Child Well-Being focuses on prevention and intervention research aimed at reducing risk for MEB and obesogenic problems in children ages 2-10. The two overall goals are: (1) to create and cultivate a high-impact research center composed of adept early-stage investigators supported by accomplished senior scientific adviser-mentors, committed to research on the prevention and reduction of mental, emotional, behavioral, and lifestyle-related risk factors in childhood; and (2) to strengthen the infrastructure that will facilitate greater contributions to scientific progress and innovation aimed at improving child well-being by reducing risk for MEB disorders, childhood obesity, and other adverse conditions. Accomplishment of the Center’s goals are being pursued through three specific aims. Aim 1 is to establish a strong infrastructure to buttress and advance the Center’s research and programmatic goals to develop capacity and to support early-stage investigators who will conduct preventive intervention outcome trials and associated studies. Aim 2 is to nurture and expand a critical mass of early-stage faculty researchers via: (a) thematically linked research projects by the promising scientists; (b) scientific mentoring from dedicated and expert senior advisers; (c) two research core facilities (Clinical Trials Logistics Core; Statistical and Data Management Core) integrally involved in supporting the research projects; (d) a local Community Advisory Board to enhance engagement of communities and schools; and (e) a Pilot Seed Project program. Aim 3 is to expand research capacity through targeted recruitment and cultivation of additional early- stage faculty researchers in multiple disciplines and areas central to the Center’s mission and focus, backed by cogent institutional support for targeted hiring of new faculty. Key cross-cutting themes of the research projects and the Center as a whole emphasize preventive intervention strategies to promote more nurturing environments for healthy child development, to strengthen children’s self-regulation, to ensure that the interventions benefit children from lower SES backgrounds without stigmatizing them, and to study and bolster quality of implementation for the interventions. The Research Center for Child Well-Being is poised to accelerate the trajectories of early-stage investigators to independent researcher status, adding to the nation’s workforce for the next generation of prevention scientists. The Center has considerable potential through innovative research to progress the scientific basis for joint prevention of mental/behavioral and obesogenic problems, leading to greater well-being of children.

儿童精神、情绪和行为 (MEB) 障碍以及儿童期的患病率 肥胖率达到惊人的高水平并构成主要的公共卫生问题。为了解决这些关键问题 南卡罗来纳大学儿童福祉研究中心关注儿童期问题 旨在降低儿童 MEB 和肥胖问题风险的预防和干预研究 2-10 岁。两个总体目标是：（1）创建和培育一个高影响力的研究中心，由以下人员组成： 熟练的早期研究人员在杰出的高级科学顾问导师的支持下，致力于 预防和减少精神、情绪、行为和生活方式相关危险因素的研究 童年; (2) 加强基础设施，为科学进步做出更大贡献 旨在通过降低 MEB 疾病、儿童肥胖症和儿童肥胖症的风险来改善儿童福祉的创新 其他不利条件。该中心的目标通过三个具体目标来实现。 目标 1 是建立强大的基础设施来支持和推进中心的研究和计划 发展能力并支持进行预防性干预的早期研究人员的目标 结果试验和相关研究。目标 2 是培养和扩大早期教师队伍的数量 研究人员通过： (a) 有前途的科学家开展主题相关的研究项目； (b) 科学指导 来自敬业的专家高级顾问； (c) 两个研究核心设施（临床试验后勤核心； 统计和数据管理核心）全面参与支持研究项目； (d) 本地人 社区咨询委员会，加强社区和学校的参与； (e) 试点种子项目 程序。目标 3 是通过有针对性地招募和培养更多的早期研究人员来扩大研究能力 在中心的使命和重点的支持下，在多个学科和领域培养教职研究人员 为有针对性地聘用新教师提供令人信服的机构支持。研究项目的关键交叉主题 整个中心强调预防性干预策略，以促进更多培育 营造有利于儿童健康发展的环境，加强儿童的自我调节，确保儿童 干预措施使社会经济地位较低背景的儿童受益，而不侮辱他们，并研究和支持 干预措施的实施质量。儿童福祉研究中心准备 加速早期研究人员向独立研究人员地位的发展，增加国家的 下一代预防科学家的劳动力。该中心具有巨大的潜力 创新研究，为联合预防精神/行为和肥胖奠定科学基础 问题，从而提高儿童的福祉。