BABIES CANT WAIT--PROGRAM EVALUATION

宝宝们已经等不及了——项目评估

• 批准号: 2036178
• 负责人: Marie Louise Lobo
• 金额: $ 10.8万
• 依托单位: MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-07-01 至 2001-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2036178
• 关键词: African American; behavioral /social science research tag; child rearing; clinical research; communication behavior; community health services; education evaluation /planning; family nursing; female; health education; human subject; infant human (0-1 year); longitudinal human study; low socioeconomic status; mother /infant health care; mother child interaction; nursing intervention; outcomes research

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Investigator's Abstract): The goal of the project is the evaluate the effectiveness of a community based educational intervention, Babies Can't Wait, in effecting mothers' behaviors and improving infant outcomes when the infants are 18 months old. The home visits focus on activities specific to the age of the infant and needs of the family, including: 1) teaching mothers to interact with and stimulate her infant, with a strong emphasis on verbal stimulation; 2) teach mother about normal infant development; 3) teach parenting skills to mother by the role modeling of the visitor; 4) review childhood safety issues; 5) review immunization schedules and the importance of well child care; and, 6) provide age appropriate books and toys. The intent of the program is to reduce infant mortality and morbidity and improve readiness for school. A case control design that includes 80 infants whose mothers enrolled in Babies Can't Wait and 80 controls, recruited from the same community, matched on maternal education and Medicaid status, and infant gender and age is used. The investigators will assess 1) qualities of parent infant interaction of maternal infant dyads; 2) cognitive and social, language and physical development of infants; and, 3) qualities of the home environment of infants using standardized instruments commonly used in evaluating early intervention programs, NCATS, HOME, ELMS, BINS, along with demographic and anthropomorphic data. Using multivariate analysis, the investigators expect to find that participants in Babies Can't Wait will have better outcomes on these measures than the controls. In addition, beyond the scope the AREA grant the investigators plan to follow both groups of children and assess readiness for school at age 5. The knowledge obtained from the project will provide a base for further early intervention research and for improved programs that can be generalized to other U.S. communities.

描述（改编自研究者的摘要）： 项目是评估基于社区的教育的有效性 干预，婴儿不能等待，影响母亲的行为和 改善婴儿 18 个月大时的婴儿结局。 家 探视的重点是针对婴儿年龄和需求的特定活动 家庭，包括： 1）教导母亲与母亲互动并激励 她的婴儿，非常强调言语刺激； 2）教妈妈 关于婴儿的正常发育； 3）向母亲传授育儿技巧 访客的角色示范； 4）审查儿童安全问题； 5）审查 免疫接种计划和良好儿童保育的重要性；以及，6) 提供适合年龄的书籍和玩具。 该计划的目的是 降低婴儿死亡率和发病率并提高入学准备度。 一个 病例对照设计，包括 80 名婴儿，其母亲参加了 Babies Can't Wait 和 80 个对照，从同一社区招募， 匹配母亲教育和医疗补助状况以及婴儿性别和年龄 被使用。 研究者将评估 1) 父母婴儿的品质 母婴二元体的相互作用； 2）认知和社交、语言和 婴儿的身体发育； 3) 家庭环境质量 使用通常用于评估早期的标准化仪器的婴儿 干预计划、NCATS、HOME、ELMS、BINS 以及人口和 拟人化数据。 通过多变量分析，研究人员预计 发现《Babies Can't Wait》的参与者在以下方面会取得更好的结果 这些措施比控制措施更重要。 此外，超出 AREA 范围 批准研究人员计划跟踪两组儿童并评估 5 岁时为上学做好准备。从该项目中获得的知识将 为进一步的早期干预研究和改进提供基础 可以推广到美国其他社区的计划。