Effects of Early and Prolonged Parent-Child Separation: Understanding Mental Health among Separated-Reunited Chinese American Children

早期和长期亲子分离的影响：了解失散重聚的华裔美国儿童的心理健康

• 批准号: 10591139
• 负责人: Shaobing Su
• 金额: $ 10.7万
• 依托单位: BOSTON COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-25 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10591139
• 关键词: Adolescence; Adult; Affect; Age; Area; Asian; Asian Americans; Award; Back; Biological; Boston; COVID-19 pandemic effects; Caregivers; Child; Child Development; Child Mental Health; Child Rearing; Childhood; China; Chinese; Chinese American; Communities; Country; Data; Development; Discrimination; Extended Family; Face; Family; Family Research; Foundations; Gender; Goals; Grant; High Prevalence; Home; Immigrant; Immigration; Individual; Infant; Interpersonal Relations; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Interview; Knowledge; Literature; Low income; Measures; Mediating; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Methodology; Methods; Migrant; Modeling; New York; Outcome; Parents; Participant; Phase; Policies; Positioning Attribute; Process; Psychological Stress; Recording of previous events; Reporting; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Risk Factors; Role; Sampling; School-Age Population; Seeds; Services; Shapes; Specific qualifier value; Stress; Structure; Subgroup; Surveys; Testing; Theory of Change; Time; Training; United States; Variant; Writing; Youth; aged; base; cohort; college; community based participatory research; design; ethnic identity; ethnic minority; experience; health disparity; improved; informant; lens; lower income families; meetings; mental development; mental function; migration; modifiable risk; negative affect; preservation; primary caregiver; protective factors; psychosocial; racial minority; resilience; skills; theories; therapy development

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The goal of this K99/R00 proposal is to facilitate Dr. Shaobing Su's transition into the role of independent investigator focused on understanding how early and prolonged parent-child separation (i.e., separated at ages 0-6 for at least 6 months per year) shapes the mental health of separated-reunited children in the United States (US). This proposal builds on Dr. Su's strong foundation in quantitative and intervention research through a risk and resilience lens and her prior research on mental health and development of vulnerable children, especially children born to immigrants or migrants. Dr. Su seeks to expand her knowledge of the literature related to child development and parent-child separation as well as her repertoire of methodological skills, including cultural adaptation of theories, measures, and interventions for racial and ethnic minorities, qualitative and mixed- method research, Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approaches, and grant writing. This CBPR-based exploratory sequential mixed-methods research comprises 3 aims and 3 studies: Study 1 (Aim 1) will elucidate the mental health challenges that arise in Chinese American children with a history of early and prolonged parent-child separation; and identify potential processes that might influence mental health. Study 1 involves semi-structured interviews with Chinese separated-reunited children (N=48, aged 12-17) and their parents (N=48 primary caregiver parents). Study 2 (Aim 2) will examine mental health disparities and risks and resources between separated-reunited children and non-separated children; and explore the relationships among separation, risk, and protective factors at multiple levels, and affected children's mental health outcomes. Study 2 is a quantitative study among 200 Chinese American separated-reunited children and 200 non-separated children (aged 12-17). Study 3 (Aim 3) will identify focal areas and potential “active ingredients” to prioritize as components for development of a targeted intervention for affected children and families. Study 3 will use mixed-methods analyses to integrate qualitative (Study 1, Community Advisory Board recorded discussions) and quantitative findings (Study 2, Boston College seed grant) to seek convergence and divergence as the basis for a model of change and integrate it into existing family strengthening models for mental health interventions. The CBPR-based, mixed-methods research may deepen understanding of the impact of parent-child separation on child development and effects of multilevel risk and protective factors. Findings may inform intervention, policy, and practices for separated-reunited Chinese American children as well as other children affected by other forms of separation (e.g., children in institutional settings, children separated at the border). This award will support Dr. Su's transition to independent research in parent-child separation and mental health; and enable her to develop R01 proposals to adapt and evaluate family-strengthening interventions for affected children or to expand the research to other child cohorts with a longitudinal sequential design.

项目摘要/摘要 这项K99/R00提案的目标是促进苏少兵博士过渡到独立人士的角色 调查人员侧重于了解早期和长期的亲子分离(即年龄分离)是如何 每年至少6个月)塑造美国失散团聚儿童的心理健康 (美国)。这一建议建立在苏博士在通过风险进行定量和干预研究方面的坚实基础上 和Resilience Lens以及她之前对弱势儿童心理健康和发展的研究，特别是 移民或移民所生的子女。苏博士试图扩大她对儿童文学的了解 发展和亲子分离以及她的方法论技能，包括文化技能 对种族和少数民族的理论、措施和干预措施的适应，定性的和混合的- 方法研究、基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)方法和赠款撰写。 这项基于CBPR的探索性序贯混合方法研究包括3个目标和3个研究： 研究1(目标1)将阐明华裔美国儿童中出现的心理健康挑战 早期和长期亲子分离的历史；并确定可能影响 心理健康。研究1采用半结构式访谈，访谈对象为中国失散团聚儿童(N=48， 12-17岁)及其父母(N=48名主要照顾者父母)。 研究2(目标2)将检查分开和团聚之间的精神健康差距以及风险和资源 儿童和未分离的儿童；并探索分离、风险和保护之间的关系 多个层面的因素，并影响儿童的心理健康结果。研究2是一项定量研究 在200名华裔美国失散儿童和200名未失散儿童(12-17岁)中。 研究3(目标3)将确定重点领域和潜在的“活性成分”，将其作为优先考虑的组成部分 为受影响的儿童和家庭制定有针对性的干预措施。研究3将采用混合方法 将定性(研究1，社区咨询委员会记录的讨论)和定量相结合的分析 研究结果(研究2，波士顿学院种子基金)寻求趋同和发散作为模型的基础 改变并将其纳入现有的加强家庭心理健康干预模式。 基于CBPR的混合方法研究可能会加深对亲子关系影响的理解 隔离对儿童发展的影响以及多层次风险和保护因素的影响。调查结果可能会为 对失散的华裔美国儿童以及其他儿童的干预、政策和做法 受其他形式的分离的影响(例如，在机构中的儿童、在边境分离的儿童)。 该奖项将支持苏博士过渡到亲子分离和心理健康方面的独立研究 健康；并使她能够制定R01建议，以适应和评估加强家庭的干预措施 或采用纵向序贯设计将研究扩大到其他儿童队列。