Marriage Education and Risk Reduction for Army Families

军队家庭的婚姻教育和降低风险

基本信息

批准号：
7798503
负责人：
SCOTT M STANLEY
金额：
$ 56.54万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (COLORADO SEMINARY)
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2006-05-01 至 2011-05-22
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7798503
关键词：
Adult Affect American Attention Child Child Abuse Child Abuse and Neglect Child Behavior Clergy Communication Communities Conflict (Psychology)Control Groups Counseling Couples Data Development Dimensions Distress Divorce Domestic Violence Education Effectiveness Empirical Research Ethnic Origin Evaluation Exposure to Family Family Relationship Government Health Health Professional Individual Intervention Investigation Knowledge Link Literature Long-Term Effects Low income Marital Therapy Marriage Measures Medical center Mental Depression Mental Health Mental Health Services Methods Military Personnel Movement Occupational Outcome Parenting behavior Participant Patient Self-Report Physical aggression Population Population Heterogeneity Prevention Prevention Research Prevention program Preventive Process Provider Race Randomized Religion and Spirituality Reporting Research Research Design Resources Risk Risk Factors Risk Reduction Sampling Services Source Staging Substance abuse problem Suicide attempt System Testing Theoretical model Time Training Universities Work base child depression combat cost depressive symptoms design education evaluation efficacy trial follow-up improved indexing intervention effect intervention program longitudinal design prevent prevention evaluation programs psychologic racial and ethnic response satisfaction skills social stressor trend

项目摘要

Marital distress and divorce is of great concern in the U.S., as the divorce rate for first marriages is around 40 to 45%, and marital problems are a risk factor for a variety of child and adult problems. To combat disturbing trends of marital dissolution and distress, as well as the associated problems and costs, there is increasing government support for the wide spread implementation of marriage education. Although this movement is supported by existing empirical research, we still need to know much about marital processes over time and the effects of marriage education, particularly across diverse samples and outcomes. We propose to implement a community level, controlled, longitudinal, randomized investigation of an ongoing marriage education program for Army couples delivered by Army chaplains. The intervention is an Army adaptation of the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) for young married Army couples. This adaptation is entitled Building Strong and Ready Families (BSRF). BSRF is designed to target empirically identified risk and protective factors for marital conflict and distress, which are also strongly associated with a range of individual and family functioning problems. We seek to test the impact of BSRF on a range of relationship risk and protective factors, and the effects of intervening with these factors on a wide range of outcomes which have not been studied in the marriage education literature, including depression, substance abuse, parenting, and child behavior outcomes. We will also evaluate a uniquely wide range of important, yet understudied, relationship constructs. We also have access to a uniquely diverse population, one not typically reached by traditional mental health services, due to the demographic make up of the Army and the use of Army chaplains as service providers (hence, a less stigmatizing resource for prevention and counseling for many people who will not seek services from a mental health professional). Our longitudinal design will allow tests of bi-directional effects of variables such as mental health and relationship health over time, enabling us to test and refine our theoretical model of relationship risk and protective factors. Thus, the proposed research investigates underlying factors of healthy marriage, processes of marital distress and dissolution, bidirectional effects of marital conflict and individual and family functioning, and the immediate and long term effects of marital education.

婚姻困境和离婚在美国备受关注，因为初婚离婚率约为 40% 到 45%，婚姻问题是各种儿童和成人问题的危险因素。去战斗婚姻破裂和痛苦的令人不安的趋势，以及相关的问题和成本，加大政府支持力度，广泛开展婚姻教育。虽然这运动得到了现有实证研究的支持，我们仍然需要更多地了解婚姻过程随着时间的推移以及婚姻教育的影响，特别是在不同的样本和结果中。我们提议对正在进行的一项社区一级的、受控的、纵向的、随机的调查由陆军牧师为陆军夫妇提供的婚姻教育计划。干预是军队为年轻已婚军人调整预防和关系增强计划（PREP）情侣。这部改编作品的标题是《建立坚强和准备好的家庭》(BSRF)。 BSRF 旨在针对根据经验确定了婚姻冲突和困扰的风险和保护因素，这些因素也强烈与一系列个人和家庭功能问题有关。我们试图测试 BSRF 的影响一系列关系风险和保护因素，以及干预这些因素对关系的影响婚姻教育文献中尚未研究过的广泛结果，包括抑郁症、药物滥用、养育子女和儿童行为结果。我们还将评估一个独特的广泛一系列重要但尚未得到充分研究的关系结构。我们还可以获得独特的多元化由于人口构成，传统精神卫生服务通常无法覆盖的人群陆军牧师以及使用陆军牧师作为服务提供者（因此，这是一种不那么侮辱性的资源为许多不会寻求心理健康专业人士服务的人提供预防和咨询）。我们的纵向设计将允许测试变量的双向影响，例如心理健康和随着时间的推移，关系的健康状况使我们能够测试和完善关系风险的理论模型，保护因素。因此，拟议的研究调查了健康婚姻的潜在因素，婚姻困扰和解体的过程、婚姻冲突以及个人和家庭的双向影响功能，以及婚姻教育的近期和长期影响。