Predictors of Aggression In Institutionalized Youth

机构化青少年的攻击性预测因素

基本信息

批准号：
7284469
负责人：
Paul Boxer
金额：
$ 4.97万
依托单位：
RUTGERS THE STATE UNIV OF NJ NEWARK
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2005
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2005-01-01 至 2007-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7284469
关键词：
adolescence (12-20)aggression behavior prediction behavior test behavior therapy behavioral /social science research tag child behavior clinical research data collection high risk behavior /lifestyle human subject institutional care facility longitudinal human study mental health epidemiology psychobiology psychopathology

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this R03 proposed investigation is to identify prospectively the individual and contextual factors that predict and can ultimately prevent extreme aggression exhibited by youth during institutional treatment. The proposed study uses existing data archives to address this broad goal by 1) Accessing and coding individual, contextual, and behavioral data from archived sources (intake/treatment records and a critical incident database) in an inpatient youth psychiatric facility; and 2) Testing a model of aggressive behavior occurring during institutionalized care by examining the prediction of self- and other-directed aggressive behaviors and related critical incidents (i.e., seclusions and restraints) from individual and contextual variables. This investigation is guided by several specific aims. First, to identify the individual biopsychological characteristics and contextual socializing influences that are associated with the occurrence of self-directed and other-directed aggression during institutional treatment. This involves identifying factors in a very high-risk sample of youth that discriminate those who engage in serious aggression during institutional treatment from those who do not. Second, to examine the extent to which individual and contextual factors predict the patterns and persistence of aggression throughout institutional treatment. This involves the study of how individual-contextual factors lead to increases, decreases, or non-linear trends in aggression during treatment. Information about individual-contextual predictors of self- and other-directed aggressive behaviors derived through the two sets of analyses will be used to develop assessment measures suitable for research and practice on the development and treatment of aggression in very high-risk youth. This instrument will be designed to serve as the basis for a larger scale longitudinal study of aggression in that population, and also will be directly applicable to treatment planning for individual youth. A critical focus of this investigation also is to specify a model of aggression in very high-risk youth that can be used to facilitate the dissemination of findings and spur additional research. Results from the proposed study will have implications for the host facility as well as to the larger audience of scientists and practitioners invested in the reduction and prevention of assaultive and self-injurious behaviors among high-risk children and adolescents.

描述（由申请人提供）：该R03提出的调查的目的是确定预测并最终可以防止青年在机构治疗期间表现出的极端侵略的个人和背景因素。拟议的研究使用现有的数据档案来解决这一广泛目标，通过1）在住院青年精神病学院中访问和编码来自存档来源（进气/治疗记录和关键事件数据库）的个人，上下文和行为数据； 2）通过检查自我和其他指导的攻击行为以及相关的关键事件（即，隔离和限制因素）从个人和上下文变量中测试制度化护理期间发生的攻击行为模型。这项调查以几个具体目标指导。首先，要确定与机构治疗期间自我指导和其他指导侵略有关的个人生物心理学特征和上下文社会化影响。这涉及在非常高风险的青年样本中识别因素，这些因素会歧视那些在机构治疗期间与那些没有认真侵略的人。其次，要检查个人和情境因素在整个机构治疗中预测侵略的模式和持久性的程度。这涉及研究在治疗过程中侵略性侵略性侵略性的增加，减少或非线性趋势的研究。有关通过两组分析得出的自我和其他指导攻击行为的个人上调和其他指导攻击行为的信息将用于制定适用于非常高风险青年的侵略性发展和治疗侵略性的研究和实践的评估措施。该工具将设计为对该人群进行更大范围的侵略纵向研究的基础，并且还将直接适用于个人青年的治疗计划。这项调查的一个关键重点也是指定非常高风险青年的侵略模型，该模型可用于促进发现结果并刺激其他研究。拟议的研究的结果将对主机设施以及对高危儿童和青少年的攻击和自我伤害行为的投资进行投资的更大的科学家和从业者的影响。