Interactions between Childhood Illness and the Family

儿童疾病与家庭之间的相互作用

• 批准号: 6905973
• 负责人: WHITNEY P WITT
• 金额: $ 12.03万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-06-01 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6905973
• 关键词: asthma; behavioral /social science research tag; biomarker; caregivers; children; chronic disease /disorder; clinical research; coping; data collection methodology /evaluation; family structure /dynamics; health care service utilization; health economics; human subject; longitudinal human study; low socioeconomic status; mathematical model; mental health; outcomes research; psychological stressor; quality of life; racial /ethnic difference; social psychology; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Whitney P. Witt, PhD, MPH is a child health services researcher and a new faculty member at Northwestern University. This proposed NICHD KOI Mentored Research Scientist Development Award will provide the necessary support to facilitate Dr. Witt's successful transition from a junior to independent investigator in the field of child and family population health research. Her long-term goal is to develop an interdisciplinary research program dedicated to improving the health and mental health of children with chronic conditions and their families through better understanding how childhood chronic illness affects family members over time. This goal will be achieved through a 5-year program of didactic training and mentored research with two objectives: 1) to acquire new skills in behavioral biology, econometric and sociological research, and child and family demography and 2) to develop a framework of preliminary results to support an independent research proposal at the end of the award. The objectives of the award will be addressed through three specific aims corresponding to three phases of progress in Dr. Witt's career development. Aim 1 seeks to determine the relationships among child illness level, family burden, and child healthcare use and costs. Aim 2 seeks to characterize the pathways through which changes in family burden impact the health and mental health of children with chronic illness. Aim 3 seeks to determine the feasibility, performance, and comparability of biological markers of psychological stress in caregivers and caregiver-reported survey measures of stress and how such measures are related to child health outcomes. The aims of this award are designed to provide the additional experience and resources necessary to support the development of an independent R01 research proposal at the end of the award for a longitudinal study of parents and their children with chronic conditions to document the impact, both perceived and biological, of stress among caregivers, and likewise the impact of caregiver stress on the outcomes of the children they care for.

描述（由申请人提供）：Whitney P. Witt博士，MPH是儿童健康服务研究人员，也是西北大学的新教师。这项提议的NICHD KOI指导了研究科学家发展奖，将提供必要的支持，以促进Witt博士从初级调查员到儿童和家庭人口健康研究领域的独立研究人员的成功过渡。她的长期目标是制定一项跨学科研究计划，致力于通过更好地了解童年慢性疾病会随着时间的推移如何影响家庭成员，以改善患有慢性病的儿童及其家人的健康和心理健康。 这一目标将通过为期5年的教学培训计划实现，并通过两个目标进行了指导研究：1）获得行为生物学，计量经济学和社会学研究的新技能，以及儿童和家庭人口统计学以及2）制定初步结果框架，以支持该奖项结束的独立研究建议。 该奖项的目标将通过与Witt博士职业发展相对的三个阶段相对应的三个特定目标来解决。 AIM 1试图确定儿童疾病水平，家庭负担以及儿童医疗保健使用和成本之间的关系。 AIM 2试图表征家庭负担变化影响慢性病儿童健康和心理健康的途径。 AIM 3旨在确定护理人员和护理人员报告的压力调查测量的心理压力生物学标记的可行性，性能和可比性以及这些措施与儿童健康结果的相关性。该奖项的目的旨在为在奖项结束时提供支持独立R01研究建议的额外经验和资源，以对父母及其具有慢性条件的孩子进行纵向研究，以记录看护人和生物学的影响，以及照料者之间的压力，以及照顾者对孩子的影响的影响。