FAMILY FUNCTIONING IN STRESSED AND MALTREATING FAMILIES

这项研究的总体目标是促进合作， 在调查家庭因素如何影响儿童福祉方面， 以及某些社会干预措施如何与这些 影响儿童发展的因素， 虐待儿童和孤儿纵向研究的现有数据集 （长扫描）。 LONGSCAN项目是一个队列研究联盟 研究虐待和社会服务干预对 儿童的功能水平随着时间的推移。 LONGSCAN的参与将 为NICHD联盟带来一个数据库和研究视角， 该地区最大和最雄心勃勃的纵向努力是什么 虐待儿童。 LONGSCAN项目正在确定 受到虐待或有可能受到虐待的幼儿。 关注这些高风险家庭将允许更密集的 检查许多潜在的风险因素和中介变量 影响儿童的心理和社会结果。 这项研究的具体目标是：1）审查家庭的影响 结构，贫困，父母态度，家庭满意度，配偶 儿童福利的社会服务干预措施 一组被确定为虐待儿童的高风险家庭， 2)在家庭功能的更广泛范围内界定哪些领域 是最重要的调解人的儿童福祉在高风险 虐待家庭，3）验证所选领域的重要性 在家庭通过有选择的 调查来自其他数据集的数据，4）从 NICHD联盟挑战并协助个人LONGSCAN 调查人员在各自的网站，以检查社会的影响， 通过纵向数据分析进行服务干预，以及5） 确定家庭的最佳衡量标准或衡量标准组合 用于未来的研究和数据点 在LONGSCAN 这项研究将涉及三个阶段的方法，我们的合作， 财团。 在第1阶段，来自LONGSCAN的现有横截面数据 将以病例对照的方式进行分析，以确定 与儿童福祉指标最相关的领域。 同相 2.本研究将寻求其他NICHD领域的验证 财团成员。 在第三阶段，该研究小组将建立这样的 LONGSCAN用于捕获的措施中的适当变更 这些领域被确定为与随后的儿童福祉最相关。 最后，由于正在进行的数据收集工作， 在我们参与NICHD联盟期间，这项研究 将能够检查新工具之间的关系， LONGSCAN以前用于评估家庭的领域和工具 功能 这最后一步可能在完成后进行。 建议的五年参与NICHD联盟。

This study's overall objective is to contribute to a collaborative network in investigating how family factors influence child-well being, and in turn how certain societal interventions can interact with these factors in influencing a child's development, by capitalizing on an existing dataset of The Longitudinal Studies in Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN). the LONGSCAN project is a consortium of cohort studies examining the impact of maltreatment and social service intervention on children's level of functioning over time. LONGSCAN's involvement would bring to the NICHD consortium a database and research perspective from what is the largest and most ambitious longitudinal effort in the area of child maltreatment. The LONGSCAN project is identifying families of young children who have been maltreated or are at risk for maltreatment. Focusing on these high risk families will allow for a more intensive examination of many of the potential risk factors and mediating variables that influence the psychological and social outcomes in children. The study's specific aims are to: 1) examine the impact of family structure, poverty, parenting attitudes, family satisfaction, spousal relationships and social service interventions on child well-being among a group of families identified as at high risk for child maltreatment, 2) define which domains within the broader context of family functioning are most important as mediators of child well-being in high risk maltreating families, 3) validate the importance of the selected domains within the concept of family functioning through the selective investigation of data from other datasets, 4) obtain guidance from the NICHD consortium to challenge and assist individual LONGSCAN investigators at their respective sites to examine the impact of social service interventions through longitudinal data analysis, and 5) determine the best measure or conglomeration of measures of family functioning to be used in future research studies and later data points within LONGSCAN. This study will involve a three phased approach to our cooperation with the Consortium. In phase 1 existing cross-sectional data from LONGSCAN will be analyzed in a case-control manner to identify the functioning domains most associated with indicators of child well-being. In phase 2 the study will seek validation of the domains from other NICHD consortium members. In phase 3 this study group will institute such changes as are appropriate in the measures used by LONGSCAN to capture the domains determined most relevant to subsequent child well-being. Finally, because of the ongoing data collection proceeding a part of LONGSCAN during our involvement with the NICHD Consortium, this study will be able to examine the relationships between new instruments or domains and instruments previously used by LONGSCAN to assess family functioning. This final step is likely to proceed after completion of the proposed five year involvement with the NICHD Consortium.