CONSEQUENCES OF DISASTER ON CHILDREN--RESIDENTIAL FIRE

说明(改编自申请人的摘要)： 建议的研究是检查儿童的程度和进程， 青少年和他们的父母的心理困扰，因为 一场城市灾难，一场住宅火灾。不仅孩子们和孩子们 检查青少年的个性特征，他们的功能 还将对他们的父母和家庭环境进行相关检查。 父母对火灾和家庭环境的反应程度 影响其后代应对突发事件并从中恢复的能力 就会得到创伤。尽管父母、孩子和青少年会 被检查，这项研究的主要目标人群是儿童。 在受控、纵向、横截面设计的背景下，150 有8至17岁孩子的家庭经历了 住宅火灾将与来自同一地区的150户对照家庭进行比较 社区。控制组将允许调查人员确定 心理困扰的程度和以后的潜质 精神病理学被归因于这一创伤事件。这个目标将是 通过使用标准化的多模式策略来实现 评估工具。将使用理论模型(发展性的 创伤事件处理模型)来指导研究。结果是 这将增加稀少的文献关于 儿童/青少年和火灾相关灾害，并将提供启发式 对未来卓有成效的研究的启示。希望这一整合 将这些发现与现有的灾难文献进行比较将 加强这方面的知识。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant' abstract): The primary purpose of the proposed study is to examine the extent and course of childrens', adolescents', and their parents' psychological distress resulting from an urban disaster, a residential fire. Not only will childrens' and adolescents' individual characteristics be examined, their functioning relative to their parents and home environment will be examined as well. The extent to which parents' reactions to the fire and the home environment affect their offspring's ability to cope with and recover from the sudden trauma will be obtained. Although parents, children, and adolescents will be examined, the primary target population of this study is children. Within the context of a controlled, longitudinal, cross-section design, 150 families with children 8 to 17 years of age who have experienced a residential fire will be compared to 150 control families from the same community. The control group will allow the investigators to determine the extent to which levels of psychological distress and later potential psychopathology are attributed to the traumatic event. This goal will be accomplished through the use of a multimodal strategy using standardized assessment instruments. A theoretical model will be used (a developmental model for processing traumatic events) to guide the research. The results of this project will add to the sparse literature concerning children/adolescents and fire-related disasters and will provide heuristic implications for future fruitful research. It is hoped that the integration and comparison of these findings with the existing disaster literature will enhance knowledge in this area.