CHILD MALTREATMENT AND PARTNER VIOLENCE: BRIDGING THE MEDICAL/SOCIAL SCIENCE GAP

描述（由申请人提供）：在美国，虐待和忽视儿童以及亲密伴侣暴力是非常普遍和极其有害的公共卫生问题。其复杂的病因和对个体在多个层面上的影响需要多个学科的贡献来推进预防和干预。然而，在社会科学和行为科学之外，鼓励生物医学或经济学等其他学科的研究人员参与这一重要努力的培训很少。这个短期跨学科教育项目“儿童虐待和伴侣暴力：弥合医学/社会科学差距”结合了来自四所大学多个学科的教师的专业知识，为年轻学者创建和实施一个由三部分组成的教育培训方案，以促进他们开展关于儿童虐待和/或亲密伴侣暴力的研究。这个为期一年的R25由两个多学科疾病控制中心伤害控制研究中心的主任领导，华盛顿大学布朗暴力和伤害预防中心和北卡罗来纳大学伤害预防研究中心与威斯康星医学院伤害研究中心合作。该项目的目标是(1)创建并实施一个跨学科培训计划，旨在为博士后/青年科学家培训生提供基础知识，鼓励他们参与与儿童虐待和/或亲密伴侣暴力相关的行为和社会科学，包括关注道德和衡量问题；(2)为学员提供培训后的实地研究指导经验，帮助他们制定具体的研究计划；(3)协助受训者制定和完善他们自己的研究计划，将他们的生物医学、临床、经济和/或其他培训结合起来，重点放在预防或应对儿童虐待、亲密伴侣暴力或其交叉方面；(4)通过促进暴力和伤害研究协会（SAVIR）存档研讨会的演讲材料，为全国提供持续的培训材料。评估措施包括实施和满意度（过程），以及通过后测试和研究计划的质量和内容衡量的参与者结果。这一独特的多学科合作培训项目将有助于弥合在卫生、神经科学、遗传学、经济学、公共卫生、公共政策和其他学科方面受过培训的研究人员与在社会行为科学方面受过培训的研究人员之间的差距，使我们能够真正采取跨学科方法来预防和治疗虐待儿童和亲密伴侣暴力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Child abuse and neglect and intimate partner violence are prevalent and extremely harmful public health concerns in the United States. Their complex etiology and impacts on individuals at multiple levels necessitates contributions of multiple academic disciplines to advance prevention and intervention. Yet little training is available outside the social and behavioral sciences to encourage researchers in other disciplines such as biomedicine or economics to participate in this important effort. This short-term interdisciplinary education project "Child Maltreatment and Partner Violence: Bridging the Medical/Social Science Gap" combines the expertise of faculty from multiple disciplines across four universities to create and conduct a three-part educational training program for young scholars that will facilitate their development of research on child maltreatment and/or intimate partner violence. This one-year R25 is led by the directors of two multidisciplinary CDC Injury Control Research Centers, the Brown Center for Violence and Injury Prevention at Washington University and the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center in collaboration with the Injury Research Center at the Medical College in Wisconsin. The aims of the project are to (1) create and implement an interdisciplinary training program designed to provide post-doctoral/young scientist trainees with the foundational knowledge to encourage their participation in behavioral and social science related to child maltreatment and/or intimate partner violence, including attention to ethical and measurement issues; (2) provide mentored, field research experiences for trainees after their training to help them develop concrete research plans; (3) assist trainees in developing and refining their own research plan to integrate their biomedical, clinical, economic and/or other training to focus on the prevention of or response to child maltreatment, intimate partner violence or their intersection; and (4) provide ongoing nationwide access to training materials by archiving lecture material from the seminars via the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR). Evaluation measures include implementation and satisfaction (process) as well as participant outcomes measured through post-tests and the quality and content of their research plans. This unique multi-disciplinary collaborative training project will help bridge gaps between researchers trained in health, neuroscience, genetics, economics, public health, public policy and other disciplines with those trained in social behavioral sciences so we can truly move to a transdisciplinary approach to preventing and treating child maltreatment and intimate partner violence. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Child maltreatment and intimate partner violence are significant public health concerns that result in tremendous personal, social and economic costs. The multi-determined nature of these public health concerns and the impact on multiple outcomes requires we move beyond work in single disciplines. This unique multi-disciplinary collaborative training project, "Child Maltreatment and Partner Violence: Bridging the Medical/Social Science Gap" will help bridge gaps between researchers trained in health, neuroscience, genetics, economics, public health, public policy and other disciplines so we can truly move to a transdisciplinary approach to preventing and treating child maltreatment and intimate partner violence.