Center for Prevention of Problems in Early Adolescence

描述(由申请人提供)： 我们建议建立预防青春期早期多重问题中心。需要建立一个青春期早期预防中心，因为青春期早期是青春期最常见和最严重的问题开始的时期，缺乏减少青春期早期多种问题流行的综合理论和实践方法。该中心将汇集来自俄勒冈研究所、家庭和儿童中心、俄勒冈大学暴力和破坏性行为研究所、俄勒冈社会学习中心和帕克斯研究所等五个组织的科学家。我们为P30中心拨款申请资金，这将创建三个核心来整合和支持多达15个研究项目。这些基础和应用项目涵盖了证明预防青春期早期所需的一系列研究问题，包括家庭、学校、同龄人、邻居和社区对药物使用、反社会行为、抑郁症和高危性行为的影响。它们包括对经验支持的做法的传播的搜索，以及为分析复杂的、多水平的数据集而开发、改进和比较统计技术的工作。行政核心旨在通过正式和非正式机制促进整合和协同。一个理论发展委员会将试图阐明这些对青少年早期发展的影响的全面理论，以指导进一步的研究。研究发展委员会将确定中心将开发的最优先的研究项目。方法论核心将确定重要的方法学问题，阐明解决方案，并培训中心工作人员实施这些问题。它将对干预措施的分组效应以及忠诚度和坚持对结果的影响进行分析，并将测试发展模式在所有项目数据集上的可复制性。传播核心将把中心的研究成果提供给科学界和政策制定者和实践者。但它也将在帮助俄勒冈州政策制定者和实践者识别和传播经验支持的做法方面发挥领导作用。该中心将通过改进参与项目的理论、测量和分析来提高其生产率。并明确了青春期早期研究和实践的方向。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to create the Center for the Prevention of Multiple Problems in Early Adolescence. A center on early adolescent prevention is needed because early adolescence is the period in which the most common and serious problems of adolescence begin and a comprehensive theoretical and practical approach to reducing the prevalence of multiple problems in early adolescence is lacking. The Center will bring together scientists from five organizations, Oregon Research Institute, the Center for Families and Children and the Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior at the University of Oregon, Oregon Social Learning Center, and Paxis Institute. We request funds for a P30 Center grant, which would create three Cores to integrate and support as many as 15 research projects. These basic and applied projects span the range of research problems needed to prove prevention for early adolescence, including family, school, peer, neighborhood and community influences on substance use, antisocial behavior, depression, and high risk sexual behavior. They include search on the dissemination of empirically supported practices and work developing, refining, and comparing statistical techniques for the analysis of complex, multi-level data sets. The Administrative Core is designed to facilitate integration and synergy through formal and informal mechanisms. A Committee on Theory Development will attempt to articulate a comprehensive theory of the influences on early adolescent development that can guide further research. A Committee on Research Development will define the highest priority research projects to be developed by the Center. The Methodology Core will identify important methodological problems, articulate solutions to them, and train Center staff in implementing them. It will conduct analyses of subgroup effects of interventions and of the influence of fidelity and adherence on outcome and will test the replicability of models of development across project data sets. The Dissemination Core will make the results of Center research available to the scientific community and policy makers and practitioners. But it will also play a leadership role in helping Oregon policy makers and practitioners identify and disseminate empirically supported practices. The Center will enhance the productivity of participating projects by improving their theory, measurement, and analysis. And, it will define the direction of research and practice on early adolescence.