Padres Preparados: A Cultural Adaption of an Evidence-Based Parenting Interventio

描述(申请人提供)：拉美裔青年目前占美国青年人口的五分之一以上(Mather&Foxen，2010)，但这一相当大的群体未来的成年人S在学业成就上远远落后于非拉丁裔青年。拟议的计划名为Padres Prepaados：针对拉美裔家庭的循证父母干预的文化适应(准备好的父母)，旨在通过旨在提高学龄前儿童入学准备技能的父母干预计划，在早期和关键阶段解决拉美裔成就差距问题。该计划的内容将基于基于证据的俄勒冈州家长管理培训模式(PMTO)指定的育儿技能，该模式强调五种积极的育儿技能：技能培养、有效的纪律、监督、解决问题和积极参与。Padres Prepreados还基于对幼儿教育的好处和家长积极参与培养入学准备技能的研究。家长的参与被证明对孩子S的学业成功起到了至关重要的作用，但拉丁裔家长可能会犹豫是否参加家长活动，因为学校和家庭的联合项目在文化上并不敏感。为了让拉丁裔父母充分参与他们的孩子S的教育，干预措施必须以一种考虑到他们的文化、语言和背景的方式进行调整。事实上，干预措施越适应特定的文化背景，效果就越好。Padres Prepreados将专门为讲西班牙语的拉丁裔父母开发，改编基于PMTO的内容，以使用文化适应过程模型和生态有效性模型解决这一群体的语言、文化价值观和独特背景。将为学龄前儿童的拉丁裔家长制作一种互动的、方便用户的多媒体介绍，介绍适应文化的PMTO家长培训；该产品将在网上或DVD上提供给家长。社会有效性数据将通过与拉丁裔父母和学前班工作人员的焦点小组、在学前班环境中的观察以及与拉丁裔社区领导人的会议来收集。这些数据将为预备教士模块1的开发提供信息，该模块将侧重于家长积极参与培养儿童S识字前技能。这个互动的、用户友好的方案的其余五个模块将在第二阶段开发，以及为幼儿园工作人员编写的专业发展材料，这些材料将使他们能够担任家长导师。在产品开发之后，将使用准试验性的岗位前设计来评估这种干预措施的可用性和可行性，抽样对象为50名讲西班牙语的拉丁裔父母，他们目前至少有一个孩子参加了Pre-K项目。我们将评估父母的压力、父母的自我效能和满意度、关于程序可用性和功能性的知识和信念。 与公共卫生相关：这项提议的目的是开发一种技能培养多媒体西班牙语干预措施--Padres Prepaados：针对拉丁裔家庭(准备好的父母)的循证育儿干预的文化适应，拉丁裔父母可以通过Head Start和其他学前教育设施获得。该计划由学龄前工作人员提供，将提供育儿和入学准备技能，这是缩小目前成绩差距的早期和关键步骤。该计划的可行性测试将在俄勒冈州和犹他州的Head Start计划中与儿童的父母进行。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Latino youth currently comprise more than one-fifth of the US youth population (Mather & Foxen, 2010), yet this sizeable group of the nation s future adults lags alarmingly behind non-Latino youth in academic achievement. The proposed program, Padres Preparados: A Cultural Adaptation of an Evidence-Based Parenting Intervention for Latino Families (Prepared Parents) aims to address the Latino achievement gap at an early and critical stage through a parent intervention program designed to increase school readiness skills in preschool age children. The content of the program will be based on parenting skills specified by the evidenced-based Oregon Model of Parent Management Training (PMTO), which emphasizes five positive parenting skills: skill building; effective discipline; monitoring; problem-solving; and positive involvement. Padres Preparados is also based on research on the benefits of early childhood education and positive parent involvement in building school readiness skills. Parent involvement has been shown to play a crucial role in children s academic success, but Latino parents may hesitate to participate in parent activities because joint school-home programs are not culturally sensitive. To fully engage Latino parents in their children s education, interventions must be adapted in a way that takes into account their culture, language, and context. In fact, the more closely an intervention is adapted to a particular cultural background, the more effective it is. Padres Preparados will be developed specifically for Spanish-speaking Latino parents, adapting PMTO-based content to address the language, cultural values, and unique contexts of this population using the Cultural Adaptation Process model and the Ecological Validity Model. An interactive, user-friendly, multimedia presentation of culturally adapted PMTO-based parent training will be developed for Latino parents of preschool-age children; the product will be available to parents online or on DVD. Social validity data will be collected via focus groups with Latino parents and preschool staff members, observations at preschool settings, and meetings with Latino community leaders. These data will inform the development of Module 1 of Padres Preparados, which will focus on positive parent involvement in building children s pre-literacy skills. The remaining five modules of this interactive, user-friendly program will be developed in Phase II, along with professional development materials for preschool staff members that will allow them to serve as parent mentors. Following product development, a quasi-experimental pre-post design will be used to assess the usability and feasibility of this intervention with a sample of 50 Spanish-speaking Latino parents who have at least one child currently enrolled in a pre-K program. We will evaluate parental stress, parental self-efficacy and satisfaction, knowledge, and beliefs about the usability and functionality of the program. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The aim of this proposal is to develop a skill-building multimedia Spanish-language intervention, Padres Preparados: A Cultural Adaptation of an Evidence Based Parenting Intervention for Latino Families (Prepared Parents), accessible to Latino parents through Head Start and other preschool facilities. The program, designed to be delivered by preschool staff, will provide parenting and school-readiness skills, which are early and crucial steps toward closing the current achievement gap. A feasibility test of the program will be conducted with parents of children in Head Start programs in Oregon and Utah.