Alcohol Availability, Alcohol Use and Child Maltreatment

酒精供应、酒精使用和虐待儿童

基本信息

批准号：
7046851
负责人：
Bridget J Freisthler
金额：
$ 17.56万
依托单位：
PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RES AND EVALUATION
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：
2005-04-01 至 2008-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7046851
关键词：
alcoholic beverage consumption alcoholic beverages alcoholism /alcohol abuse behavioral /social science research tag child abuse clinical research disease /disorder etiology environment human data human ecology interview mathematical model parents substance abuse related behavior young adult human (21-34)

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The importance and role of alcohol in the etiology of child maltreatment is still not well understood. Findings of studies on the effect of parental alcoholism on child maltreatment are mixed and inconclusive. Moreover, researchers have not examined through what mechanism(s) physical availability of alcohol may affect child maltreatment. By investigating how the physical availability of alcohol affects child maltreatment, findings of the proposed study will provide new information on the importance and role of alcohol in the etiology of child maltreatment that moves away from solely focusing on individual behaviors to environmental conditions that may place children at elevated risk for physical abuse and neglect. This proposed study will go beyond previous research by (1) investigating how level of alcohol use, not just alcohol abuse or alcoholism, is related to committing child physical abuse and neglect; (2) testing a conceptual model that examines how alcohol use and the physical availability of alcohol may be two pathways that lead to committing child physical abuse and/or neglect; and (3) examining these relationships in a nationally representative probability sample of young adult parents. Thus, this study reduces the biases introduced when specialized populations such as parents already in the child welfare system and alcoholic parents are used. This study will use interview data from young adult parents (n~ 2,427) who participated in the third wave of National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health) in 2002. Findings from this study will improve our understanding of the importance and role of alcohol in the etiology of child maltreatment, and will provide a theoretical and empirical basis for designing effective prevention programs to reduce child maltreatment and the individual and societal costs related to maltreatment. This study also will yield a dataset with contextual factors from the 2000 census and alcohol outlet density variables that can be analyzed with Add Health interview data by other investigators.

描述（由申请人提供）：酒精在虐待儿童的病因学中的重要性和作用尚不清楚。关于父母酗酒对虐待儿童的影响的研究结果好坏参半且尚无定论。此外，研究人员尚未研究酒精的物理可用性可能通过何种机制影响儿童虐待。通过调查酒精的物理可用性如何影响儿童虐待，拟议研究的结果将提供关于酒精在儿童虐待病因学中的重要性和作用的新信息，该研究不再仅仅关注个人行为，而是可能使儿童遭受虐待的环境条件遭受身体虐待和忽视的风险较高。这项拟议的研究将超越之前的研究，通过以下方式：（1）调查饮酒水平（而不仅仅是酗酒或酗酒）与儿童身体虐待和忽视之间的关系； (2) 测试一个概念模型，该模型检查酒精使用和酒精的实际可用性如何成为导致儿童身体虐待和/或忽视的两个途径； (3) 在年轻成年父母的全国代表性概率样本中检验这些关系。因此，这项研究减少了使用特殊人群（例如已经在儿童福利系统中的父母和酗酒的父母）时引入的偏见。本研究将使用参加 2002 年第三波全国青少年健康纵向调查 (Add Health) 的年轻成年父母 (n~ 2,427) 的访谈数据。本研究的结果将提高我们对酒精的重要性和作用的理解并将为设计有效的预防方案提供理论和经验基础，以减少虐待儿童以及与虐待相关的个人和社会成本。这项研究还将产生一个数据集，其中包含 2000 年人口普查的背景因素和酒精出口密度变量，可以使用其他研究人员的 Add Health 访谈数据进行分析。