Childhood After Preterm Birth: The Preschool Years

早产后的童年：学前阶段

• 批准号: 7221561
• 负责人: LISA A MCELANEY
• 金额: $ 12.76万
• 依托单位: VIDA HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7221561
• 关键词: Address; Age; Area; Brain; Build-it; CD-ROM; Caregivers; Caring; Certification; Child; Child Development; Childhood; Cognition; Companions; Continuing Education; Curriculum Management System; Data; Data Analyses; Development; Early Intervention; Education; Educational Curriculum; Electronic library; Family; Focus Groups; Health Communication; Home environment; Hospitals; Individual; Infant; Internet; Knowledge; Language; Left; Library Materials; Life; Monitor; Motor Skills; Neonatal Intensive Care Units; Newborn Infant; Nursery Schools; Nursing Faculty; Occupations; Online Systems; Parenting Education; Parents; Phase; Pregnancy; Premature Birth; Premature Infant; Preschool Child; Printed Media; Printing; Provider; Range; Research; Research Design; Resources; Sampling; Schools; Site; Small Business Funding Mechanisms; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Social Workers; Specialist; Speech; Survival Rate; Techniques; Technology; Testing; Time; Toddler; Training; Training Programs; Variant; Videotape; Week; Work; early childhood; executive function; improved; literacy; parental monitoring; pediatrician; programs; prototype; visual motor

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the past decade, there has been dramatic improvement in the survival rate of infants born preterm - i.e., after a pregnancy of less than 37 weeks. As more of these infants leave the neonatal intensive care unit for home, we are just beginning to recognize the special needs of these young children as infants and toddlers. Parents and early childhood providers (early intervention specialists, daycare providers and early childhood educators, nurses, pediatricians, social workers) can all do a better job if they know what to expect and how to help. In this SBIR project, Vida Health Communications, Inc. will produce, evaluate and distribute a multi-media package, Childhood After Preterm Birth: The First Three Years. The multi-media package will draw on the proven and specific advantages of DVD and web technologies, and will use videotaped encounters with real families. It will consist of three components: (1) A provider training program on DVD will convey information about the likely needs of infants and toddlers who were born preterm in areas such as cognition, visual and motor skills, speech and language, and executive function. It will provide and illustrate effective strategies for providers to use to guide and support the parents. A web-based component will include a test unit offering continuing education credits. (2) A companion DVD program, in Spanish and English, for parents of young children born preterm will explain in lay terms the developmental course of infants and toddlers, and types of special needs that potentially challenge children born preterm. It will also provide and illustrate effective strategies for parents to monitor and enhance their child's development, and to garner appropriate resources for the child's preschool years. (3) An electronic library of materials on CD-ROM and Vida's web site for providers to print and distribute to parents will be suitable for widely varying literacy levels. In Phase I, the producers will develop the content for both the provider and parent programs, and produce prototypes of the media and print materials, which will then be evaluated using focus groups representative of the target audiences. Evaluators will use well-documented qualitative techniques to analyze focus group data. This project will advance the training of early childhood providers serving children with special needs and their families. It will also provide much needed education, at appropriate literacy levels, for parents about ways to prepare for the child's school years. In the past decade, there has been dramatic improvement in the survival rate of infants born well before term - i.e., after a pregnancy of less than 37 weeks. As more of these infants leave the neonatal intensive care unit for home, we are just beginning to recognize the special needs of these young children as infants and toddlers. Parents and early childhood providers (early intervention specialists, daycare providers and early childhood educators, nurses, pediatricians, social workers) can all do a better job if they know what to expect and how to help. This research will contribute to knowledge of how early childhood providers can work with parents of children born preterm, so together they can improve the child's chance of healthy, normal development.

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去十年中，早产儿（即妊娠少于 37 周后）的存活率有了显着提高。随着越来越多的婴儿离开新生儿重症监护室回家，我们才刚刚开始认识到这些幼儿作为婴儿和幼儿的特殊需求。如果父母和幼儿提供者（早期干预专家、日托提供者和幼儿教育者、护士、儿科医生、社会工作者）知道会发生什么以及如何提供帮助，他们都可以做得更好。在这个 SBIR 项目中，Vida Health Communications, Inc. 将制作、评估和分发多媒体包《早产后的童年：前三年》。多媒体包将利用 DVD 和网络技术经过验证的具体优势，并将使用与真实家庭的遭遇的录像。它将由三个部分组成：(1) DVD 上的提供者培训计划将传达有关早产婴儿和幼儿在认知、视觉和运动技能、言语和语言以及执行功能等领域可能需求的信息。它将提供并说明提供者用来指导和支持父母的有效策略。基于网络的组件将包括提供继续教育学分的测试单元。 (2) 为早产儿父母准备的西班牙语和英语配套 DVD 节目，将以通俗易懂的方式解释婴儿和幼儿的发育过程，以及可能对早产儿提出挑战的特殊需求类型。它还将为家长提供并说明有效的策略，以监测和促进孩子的发展，并为孩子的学前阶段获取适当的资源。 (3) CD-ROM 上的电子资料库和 Vida 网站供提供者打印并分发给家长，该资料库将适用于各种不同的识字水平。在第一阶段，制作人将为提供商和家长项目开发内容，并制作媒体和印刷材料的原型，然后由代表目标受众的焦点小组对其进行评估。评估人员将使用有据可查的定性技术来分析焦点小组数据。该项目将促进为有特殊需要的儿童及其家庭提供服务的幼儿服务提供者的培训。它还将在适当的识字水平上为家长提供急需的教育，帮助他们为孩子的学年做好准备。在过去的十年中，足月前出生的婴儿（即怀孕不足 37 周后出生的婴儿）的存活率有了显着提高。随着越来越多的婴儿离开新生儿重症监护室回家，我们才刚刚开始认识到这些幼儿作为婴儿和幼儿的特殊需求。如果父母和幼儿提供者（早期干预专家、日托提供者和幼儿教育者、护士、儿科医生、社会工作者）知道会发生什么以及如何提供帮助，他们都可以做得更好。这项研究将有助于了解幼儿教育提供者如何与早产儿的父母合作，从而共同提高孩子健康、正常发育的机会。