RAPID: How parenting practices influence child safety thoughts and behaviors in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

父母的做法可以从两个关键方面帮助限制COVID-19的影响。首先，家长可以支持孩子采取减少病毒传播的行为（如洗手、保持社交距离和自我隔离）。其次，父母可以帮助限制孩子的焦虑（例如，监督和讨论媒体曝光，提供事实和适合年龄的信息）。通过了解导致这些育儿行为差异的因素，这项研究可以帮助确定如何在这个充满挑战的时期最好地支持儿童和家庭健康。父母养育方式的差异可能与父母对病毒对其家庭的威胁的不同看法以及他们认为自己可以采取措施限制这种威胁的程度有关。本研究还将评估家庭社会经济特征（如收入、教育、职业和健康素养）与威胁和应对感知、父母行为和儿童结局的关系。一项针对6-17岁儿童的英语和西班牙语父母的全国代表性调查将满足这一需求，其目标如下：(1)描述与COVID-19相关的父母行为；(2)确定这些父母行为与父母威胁和应对感知差异的相关程度；(3)探索和描述家庭社会经济特征与威胁和应对感知、儿童焦虑和儿童健康行为的关系，以减少病毒传播。这项研究的结果将提供关于如何在当前大流行背景下针对和优化卫生传播的关键信息，并可以确定可能需要在何处进行结构性干预以解决健康社会决定因素的根本差异。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Parenting practices can help limit the impact of COVID-19 in two key ways. First, parents can support children’s implementation of behaviors to reduce virus spread (e.g., hand washing, social distancing, and self-quarantine). Second, parents can help limit child anxiety (e.g., overseeing and discussing media exposure and providing factual and age appropriate information). By understanding the factors that drive differences in these parenting behaviors, this research can help determine how best to support child and family wellness at a population-level during this challenging time. Differences in parenting are likely related to differences in parent perceptions of the threat of the virus to their family and the extent to which they believe they can take steps to limit this threat. This study will also assess how family socioeconomic characteristics such as income, education, occupation, and health literacy relate to threat and coping perceptions, parenting behaviors, and child outcomes. A nationally representative survey of English and Spanish speaking parents of children aged 6-17 years will address this need with the following aims: (1) describe parenting practices related to COVID-19, (2) determine the extent to which these parenting behaviors are related to differences in parent threat and coping perceptions, and (3) explore and describe the relationship of family socioeconomic characteristics to threat and coping perceptions, child anxiety, and child health behaviors to reduce virus transmission. Results of this study will provide key information about how to target and optimize health communication in the current pandemic context and can identify where structural interventions to address fundamental disparities in social determinants of health may be needed.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.