Research Center for Child Well-Being

儿童精神、情绪和行为(MEB)障碍的患病率，以及儿童的患病率 肥胖，处于令人震惊的高水平，并构成主要的公共卫生问题。要解决这些关键问题 儿童问题，南卡罗来纳大学儿童福利研究中心专注于 旨在降低儿童MEB和肥胖问题风险的预防和干预研究 年龄在2-10岁之间。两个总体目标是：(1)创建和培育由以下人员组成的高影响力研究中心 熟练的早期调查人员在经验丰富的高级科学顾问-导师的支持下，致力于 预防和减少与精神、情绪、行为和生活方式相关的危险因素的研究 (2)加强基础设施，以促进对科学进步的更大贡献 和旨在通过降低MEB障碍、儿童肥胖症和 其他不良情况。目前正在通过三个具体目标实现中心的目标。 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 目标是发展能力并支持将进行预防性干预的早期调查人员 结果试验和相关研究。目标2是培养和扩大一大批处于早期阶段的教师 研究人员通过：(A)有前途的科学家的专题相关研究项目；(B)科学指导 来自专职和专家的高级顾问；(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)一个当地 社区咨询委员会，以加强社区和学校的参与；和(E)试点种子项目 程序。目标3是通过有针对性地招聘和培养更多的早期研究人员来扩大研究能力 对中心的使命和重点至关重要的多个学科和领域的教师研究人员的舞台，由 有说服力的机构支持有针对性地招聘新教师。研究项目的主要交叉主题 该中心作为一个整体，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环境，加强儿童的自我调节，确保 干预措施使来自较低社会经济地位背景的儿童受益，而不会使他们蒙受耻辱，并帮助他们学习和支持 干预措施的执行质量。儿童福祉研究中心准备 加快早期调查人员的发展轨迹，使其成为独立研究人员，增加国家的 为下一代预防科学家提供劳动力。该中心通过以下方式具有相当大的潜力 创新研究，为心理/行为和肥胖联合预防奠定科学基础 问题，为儿童带来更大的福祉。

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.