The Community Context of Rural and Urban Child Neglect

描述(由申请人提供)：本研究的具体目的是 检查社区对疾病的发病率、识别和反应的影响 忽视儿童。重点放在农村和城市社区的差异上 以及在不同社会组织水平的社区之间。这项研究 将扩大目前关于为什么报告和调查的比率 不同社区的儿童忽视案例有所不同。这项研究的目的是 为儿童福利从业者、管理者、政策制定者和当地 拥有关于影响数字的因素的基本信息的社区 正式采取行动的儿童疏忽事件；社区因素 在CPS筛选过程中的影响力；以及正式和非正式的范围 对发生在农村和城市社区的忽视儿童问题的反应。这个 基础研究设计是分层次的，既涉及个人，也涉及社区 水平衡量，涉及定量和定性两种方法。 在内布拉斯加州50个社区中的每个社区进行的结构化电话调查 由10个儿童保护服务办公室提供的服务构成了基本数据集。 其他数据来自人口普查和其他关于社区的来源 内布拉斯加州卫生与公众服务系统的特点和数据 忽视儿童。将使用多层递阶线性模型来分析 量化数据。从社区居民和社区居民收集的定性数据 社区样本中的主要领导人提供了对 社区。关于CPS摄入量决策的数据收集自CPS摄入量 员工和主管通过调查、访谈和政策获取研究 在选定的10个CPS办事处中的每一个进行。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The specific aims of this research are to examine community effects on the incidence, identification and response to child neglect. The focus is on variations across rural and urban communities and between communities varying in levels of social organization. The research will expand the current knowledge of why the rates of reported and investigated child neglect cases differ across communities. The objective of the research is to provide child welfare practitioners, administrators, policy makers and local communities with essential information on the factors that influence the number of child neglect incidents formally acted upon; the community factors that are influential in the CPS screening process; and the range of formal and informal responses to child neglect which occur in rural and urban communities. The basic study design is hierarchical, involving both individual and community level measures, and involves both quantitative and qualitative methods. Structured telephone surveys conducted in each of 50 Nebraska communities served by 10 Child Protective Services offices form the base data set. Additional data included is from census and other sources on community characteristics and data from Nebraska Health and Human Services System on child neglect. Multi-level hierarchical linear models will be used to analyze the quantitative data. Qualitative data collected from community residents and key leaders in a sample of communities provides a more detailed view of the communities. Data on CPS decision making at intake is collected from CPS intake staff and supervisors through surveys, interviews, and a policy capturing study conducted in each of the 10 selected CPS offices.