Research Center for Child Well-Being

儿童精神、情绪和行为（MEB）障碍的患病率以及儿童期 肥胖症的发病率高得惊人，构成了重大的公共卫生问题。以应对这些严峻的 南卡罗来纳州大学儿童福利研究中心的重点是 预防和干预研究，旨在降低儿童MEB和致肥胖问题的风险 2-10岁。两个总体目标是：（1）创建和培育一个由 熟练的早期研究人员，由成就卓著的高级科学顾问-导师支持，致力于 研究预防和减少精神、情感、行为和生活方式相关的危险因素， （2）加强基础设施，为科学进步做出更大贡献 和创新，旨在通过降低MEB疾病、儿童肥胖和 其他不利条件。中心通过三个具体目标实现其目标。 目标1是建立一个强大的基础设施，以支持和推进中心的研究和方案 目标是发展能力和支持将进行预防性干预的早期研究人员 结果试验和相关研究。目标2是培养和扩大早期师资的临界质量 研究人员通过：（a）由有前途的科学家开展主题相关的研究项目;（B）科学指导 （c）两个研究核心设施（临床试验后勤核心; 统计和数据管理核心）全面参与支持研究项目;（d）当地 社区咨询委员会，以加强社区和学校的参与;以及（e）种子试验计划 程序.目标3是通过有针对性的招聘和培养更多的早期研究人员， 舞台教师研究人员在多个学科和中心的使命和重点领域的核心，由 为有针对性地招聘新教师提供强有力的机构支持。研究项目的关键交叉主题 和中心作为一个整体强调预防性干预策略，以促进更多的培育 为儿童的健康发展创造良好的环境，加强儿童的自我调节， 干预措施使来自社会经济地位较低背景的儿童受益，而不会使他们蒙受耻辱， 干预措施的执行质量。儿童福利研究中心准备 加速早期研究人员的轨迹，以独立的研究人员的地位，增加了国家的 下一代预防科学家的劳动力。该中心具有相当大的潜力， 创新研究，以推进联合预防精神/行为和致肥胖的科学基础 解决问题，让孩子们更幸福。

The prevalence rates for children’s mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders, as well as for childhood obesity, are at alarmingly high levels and constitute major public health concerns. To address these critical problems in childhood, the University of South Carolina Research Center for Child Well-Being focuses on prevention and intervention research aimed at reducing risk for MEB and obesogenic problems in children ages 2-10. The two overall goals are: (1) to create and cultivate a high-impact research center composed of adept early-stage investigators supported by accomplished senior scientific adviser-mentors, committed to research on the prevention and reduction of mental, emotional, behavioral, and lifestyle-related risk factors in childhood; and (2) to strengthen the infrastructure that will facilitate greater contributions to scientific progress and innovation aimed at improving child well-being by reducing risk for MEB disorders, childhood obesity, and other adverse conditions. Accomplishment of the Center’s goals are being pursued through three specific aims. Aim 1 is to establish a strong infrastructure to buttress and advance the Center’s research and programmatic goals to develop capacity and to support early-stage investigators who will conduct preventive intervention outcome trials and associated studies. Aim 2 is to nurture and expand a critical mass of early-stage faculty researchers via: (a) thematically linked research projects by the promising scientists; (b) scientific mentoring from dedicated and expert senior advisers; (c) two research core facilities (Clinical Trials Logistics Core; Statistical and Data Management Core) integrally involved in supporting the research projects; (d) a local Community Advisory Board to enhance engagement of communities and schools; and (e) a Pilot Seed Project program. Aim 3 is to expand research capacity through targeted recruitment and cultivation of additional early- stage faculty researchers in multiple disciplines and areas central to the Center’s mission and focus, backed by cogent institutional support for targeted hiring of new faculty. Key cross-cutting themes of the research projects and the Center as a whole emphasize preventive intervention strategies to promote more nurturing environments for healthy child development, to strengthen children’s self-regulation, to ensure that the interventions benefit children from lower SES backgrounds without stigmatizing them, and to study and bolster quality of implementation for the interventions. The Research Center for Child Well-Being is poised to accelerate the trajectories of early-stage investigators to independent researcher status, adding to the nation’s workforce for the next generation of prevention scientists. The Center has considerable potential through innovative research to progress the scientific basis for joint prevention of mental/behavioral and obesogenic problems, leading to greater well-being of children.