Poverty, stress, and American Indian child development

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目旨在探索贫困对北方平原部落的美国印第安婴儿和幼儿发展的影响。本研究在与该部落社区服务提供者持续合作的基础上，采用定量和定性的方法，在290个家庭的样本中，试图实现以下5个目标：1）使用纵向分析和发展评估描述该北方平原部落儿童在出生后3年内的4个时间点的婴幼儿发育;（2）使用民族志和定量方法探索该部落婴幼儿发展的背景的有意义的维度;（3）测试该保留地环境中父母养育和儿童发展的预测模型;四、将本研究中收集的数据与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人保留区社区幼儿干预措施的方式解释本研究的结果。

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.