Parenting Response with Offline Technology to End COVID-associated Trauma ("PROTECT")

利用离线技术结束与新冠病毒相关的创伤的育儿响应（“保护”）

• 批准号: EP/X039307/1
• 负责人: Lucie Cluver
• 金额: $ 16.47万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX039307%2F1
• 关键词: Parenting; Response; Offline; Technology; End

COVID-associated child abuse has become a chronic crisis through the intense stressors of economic upheaval, school closure, lockdown and mental health distress, alongside the inaccessibility of in-person support services. The objective of this work is to deliver proven-effective evidence-based child abuse prevention resources, to the world's most vulnerable populations during COVID-19, through a uniquely accessible and context-customised digital parenting app. This Proof of Concept project will conduct pre-post testing and qualitative piloting of our beta version "ParentApp" digital programme in South Africa and Tanzania: two countries with surging COVID rates and low vaccination coverage. If successful, the WHO and UNICEF have committed to scaling up the programme with national governments across the Global South. Remote delivery is a cost-effective feasible alternative, and ParentApp is the world's first offline-accessible, low-data parenting app; the only open-source digital parenting programme; and the only digital programme designed for low-resource settings.This project will test the feasibility and initial effectiveness of ParentApp in Tanzania and South Africa, to make improvements based on findings, and to involve national and global stakeholders to support the translation of research into innovation at scale. We will do this by: gathering feedback from users and implementers on the relevance, acceptability, satisfaction and usability of ParentApp; engaging with international and government strategic partners and implementing NGOs to understand how ParentApp can be implemented, delivered and used in their activities; generating quantitative and qualitative data to test initial effectiveness on target outcomes by evaluating at immediate post-test the effect of the programme on primary and secondary outcomes.This proposal offers ground-breaking potential for massive societal impact through building a new evidence-base in digital violence prevention.

通过经济动荡，学校关闭，锁定和心理健康困扰的强烈压力，与共同相关的儿童虐待与亲人支持服务的无法访问相同，已成为慢性危机。这项工作的目的是通过一个唯一可访问的上下文定制的数字育儿应用程序，在Covid-19期间为世界上最脆弱的人群提供可靠的循证儿童预防资源。该概念验证项目将对我们在南非和坦桑尼亚的Beta版本“ ParentApp”数字计划进行验证前测试和定性试验：两个国家有飙升的率和低疫苗接种覆盖率的国家。如果成功，世界卫生组织和联合国儿童基金会已致力于与全球南部的国家政府一起扩大该计划。远程交付是一种具有成本效益的可行替代方案，而ParentApp是世界上第一个可访问，低DATA育儿应用程序；唯一的开源数字育儿计划；这是为低资源设置设计的唯一数字计划。该项目将测试ParentApp在坦桑尼亚和南非的可行性和初始有效性，以根据发现进行改进，并参与国家和全球利益相关者，以支持按大规模研究研究对创新的翻译。我们将通过：收集用户和实施者的反馈，以了解父级的相关性，可接受性，满意度和可用性；与国际和政府战略合作伙伴交往并实施非政府组织，以了解如何在其活动中实施，交付和使用父母；通过立即在测试后评估该计划对主要和次要结果的影响，生成定量和定性数据，以测试目标结果的初始有效性。该提案通过在数字暴力预防中建立新的循证循证基础，为大规模社会影响提供了突破性的潜力。