ASU Prevention Research Center for Families in Stress

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是为了资助亚利桑那州立大学的一个高级干预和服务研究中心。该中心的重点是预防干预儿童谁是在发展心理健康问题的风险，因为暴露于父母离婚，父母死亡和内城，墨西哥裔美国儿童过渡到高中的高压力的情况下。这些压力因素增加了发展严重心理健康问题的风险，如抑郁症、行为问题、药物滥用和社会适应问题。该提案建立在对这些人群进行的9年生产性研究的基础上，这些研究已证明对减少心理健康问题、精神障碍诊断、物质使用和提高学业成绩具有功效。该提案的总体目标是从基于大学的预防干预措施的有效性研究过渡到社区机构实施的方案的有效性评估。指导这一转变的是一个创新的模式，将疗效试验的结果与营销和质量功能部署的概念和方法相结合。由此产生的系统过程中，积极主动地预测和解决障碍，高质量的实施预防计划，在社区机构可以作为一个模式，以加快运输有效的干预措施到设置，他们可以影响公共卫生。该中心由四个核心组成。主要研究核心利用跨学科的方法来准备在社区机构交付的干预措施。从服务行销、品质管理与教育设计的概念与方法，被用来重新设计社区机构执行前的计画。跨文化适应问题专家开展合作，以采取既具有文化敏感性又具有文化广泛性的干预措施。多学科小组与家庭法院的主要利益攸关方以及与丧亲儿童和经验丰富的有效性研究人员合作的机构合作。研究方法核心开发方法学家和实质性研究人员的协作工作组，专注于五个方法问题;测量，结果的变化，实施和遵守干预措施，多层次数据和经济分析。研究网络发展核心与家庭法院、提供机构和丧亲救济机构合作，在社区环境中实施循证预防方案。运营核心为中心的决策和管理、基于网络的数据收集、数据管理、统计分析、道德问题分析和培训提供关键基础设施。 运营核心

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is to fund an Advanced Center for Intervention and Services Research at Arizona State University. The Center focuses on preventive interventions for children who are at risk for developing mental health problems because of exposure to the high stress situations of parental divorce, parental death and inner-city, Mexican American children in transition to high school. These stressors increase risk for development of serious mental health problems such as depression, conduct problems, substance abuse and social adaptation problems. The proposal builds on a 9-year history of productive research with these populations, which has demonstrated efficacy to reduce mental health problems, diagnosis of mental disorder, substance use and to improve academic achievement. The overall objective of the proposal is transition from University-based studies of the efficacy of preventive interventions to the evaluation of effectiveness of programs implemented in community agencies. Guiding this transition is an innovative model that integrates findings from efficacy trials with marketing and quality function deployment concepts and methods. The resulting systematic process of proactively anticipating and resolving barriers to high quality implementation of prevention programs in community agencies can serve as a model to speed the transportation of efficacious interventions into settings where they can affect public health. The Center consists of four Cores. The Principal Research Core utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to prepare the interventions for delivery in community agencies. Concepts and methods from service marketing, and quality management and educational design are used to redesign the programs fore implementation in community agencies. Experts on cross-cultural adaptation collaborate to make interventions that are culturally sensitive yet culturally broad. The multidisciplinary teams work with key stakeholders in Family Courts and agencies that work with bereaved children and experienced effectiveness researchers. The Research Methods Core develops collaborative workgroups of methodologists and substantive researchers to focus on five methodological issues; measurement, variability in outcomes, implementation and compliance with interventions, multilevel data, and economic analysis. The Research Network Development Core develops collaborations with Family Courts, provider agencies and Bereavement Agencies to implement evidence based prevention programs in community settings. The Operations Core provides critical infrastructure for Center decision making and management, web-based data collection, data management, statistical analysis, analysis of ethical issues and training. OPERATIONS CORE