Poverty, stress, and American Indian child development

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目旨在探索贫困对北部平原部落美洲印第安人婴幼儿发展的影响。基于与该部落社区服务提供者正在进行的合作工作，并在290个家庭的样本中使用定量和定性方法，它寻求实现以下5个目标：1)使用纵向分析和发展评估来描述来自北部平原部落的儿童在生命的头三年的4个时间点的婴幼儿发展；2)利用民族志和定量方法，探索该部落中婴幼儿发展环境的有意义维度；3)检验保留地环境下父母教养和儿童发展的预测模型；4)将本研究收集的数据与来自同一社区的现有数据集联系起来，以便更充分地阐明农村贫困对父母及其子女的健康和发展的影响；5)与社区服务提供者和政策制定者合作，以能够有效地转化为美国印第安保留地社区早期儿童干预措施的方式解释这项研究的发现。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project seeks to explore the impact of poverty on the development of American Indian infants and toddlers in one northern plains tribe. Building on on-going collaborative work with community service providers in this tribe, and using both quantitative and qualitative methods in a sample of 290 families, it seeks to accomplish the following 5 aims: 1) to describe infant and toddler development using longitudinal analyses and developmental assessments at 4 time points over the first three years of life for children from this northern plains tribe; 2) to explore, using both ethnographic and quantitative methods, meaningful dimensions of the contexts in which infant and toddler development occurs in this tribe; 3) to test predictive models of parenting and child development in this reservation setting; 4) to link the data collected in this study with existing datasets from the same community in order to more fully articulate the impact of rural poverty on the health and development of parents and their children; and 5) to work with community service providers and policy makers to interpret the findings of this study in ways that can be efficiently translated into early childhood interventions in American Indian reservation communities.