Research Center for Child Well-Being

儿童福祉研究中心

• 批准号: 10361404
• 负责人: RONALD J PRINZ
• 金额: $ 222.44万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10361404
• 关键词: Address; Adolescence; Adolescent obesity; Adult; Affect; Age; Aggressive behavior; Area; Back; Behavior; Behavior Disorders; Behavioral; Cardiovascular Diseases; Centers of Research Excellence; Child; Child Behavior; Child Development; Child Mental Disorders; Child Welfare; Childhood; Clinical Trials; Communities; Core Facility; Depression and Suicide; Devices; Diabetes Mellitus; Discipline; Dropout; Emotional; Emotional disorder; Ensure; Environment; Faculty; Family; Fostering; Goals; Habits; Health; Health Promotion; High Prevalence; Impairment; Informal Social Control; Infrastructure; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Joints; Life Style; Link; Logistics; Low income; Mental Health; Mental disorders; Mentors; Mission; Obesity; Outcome; Phase; Physical activity; Population; Prevalence; Prevention; Prevention Research; Problem behavior; Psyche structure; Public Health; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Support; Risk; Risk Factors; Schools; Scientist; Seeds; Sleep; South Carolina; Stigmatization; Student Dropouts; Teenagers; Universities; Work; adult obesity; adverse outcome; community engagement; data management; dietary; emotion dysregulation; evidence base; implementation intervention; improved; infrastructure development; innovation; low socioeconomic status; mental development; middle childhood; next generation; obesity in children; obesogenic; physical inactivity; poor sleep; prevent; preventive intervention; programs; recruit; social; substance use; success; unhealthy lifestyle

The prevalence rates for children’s mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders, as well as for childhood obesity, are at alarmingly high levels and constitute major public health concerns. To address these critical problems in childhood, the University of South Carolina Research Center for Child Well-Being focuses on prevention and intervention research aimed at reducing risk for MEB and obesogenic problems in children ages 2-10. The two overall goals are: (1) to create and cultivate a high-impact research center composed of adept early-stage investigators supported by accomplished senior scientific adviser-mentors, committed to research on the prevention and reduction of mental, emotional, behavioral, and lifestyle-related risk factors in childhood; and (2) to strengthen the infrastructure that will facilitate greater contributions to scientific progress and innovation aimed at improving child well-being by reducing risk for MEB disorders, childhood obesity, and other adverse conditions. Accomplishment of the Center’s goals are being pursued through three specific aims. Aim 1 is to establish a strong infrastructure to buttress and advance the Center’s research and programmatic goals to develop capacity and to support early-stage investigators who will conduct preventive intervention outcome trials and associated studies. Aim 2 is to nurture and expand a critical mass of early-stage faculty researchers via: (a) thematically linked research projects by the promising scientists; (b) scientific mentoring from dedicated and expert senior advisers; (c) two research core facilities (Clinical Trials Logistics Core; Statistical and Data Management Core) integrally involved in supporting the research projects; (d) a local Community Advisory Board to enhance engagement of communities and schools; and (e) a Pilot Seed Project program. Aim 3 is to expand research capacity through targeted recruitment and cultivation of additional early- stage faculty researchers in multiple disciplines and areas central to the Center’s mission and focus, backed by cogent institutional support for targeted hiring of new faculty. Key cross-cutting themes of the research projects and the Center as a whole emphasize preventive intervention strategies to promote more nurturing environments for healthy child development, to strengthen children’s self-regulation, to ensure that the interventions benefit children from lower SES backgrounds without stigmatizing them, and to study and bolster quality of implementation for the interventions. The Research Center for Child Well-Being is poised to accelerate the trajectories of early-stage investigators to independent researcher status, adding to the nation’s workforce for the next generation of prevention scientists. The Center has considerable potential through innovative research to progress the scientific basis for joint prevention of mental/behavioral and obesogenic problems, leading to greater well-being of children.

儿童的心理，情感和行为（MEB）疾病以及童年的患病率 肥胖，处于令人震惊的高水平，构成了主要的公共卫生问题。解决这些关键 童年时期的问题，南卡罗来纳大学儿童福祉研究中心的重点是 预防和干预研究旨在降低儿童MEB和肥胖问题的风险 2-10岁。这两个总体目标是：（1）创建和培养一个由高影响力的研究中心组成的 熟练的早期调查员在有成就的高级科学顾问主持人的支持下，致力于 研究预防和减少与生活方式相关的心理，情感，行为和生活方式相关风险因素的研究 童年; （2）加强将促进科学进步贡献的基础设施 和创新旨在通过减少MEB疾病，儿童肥胖和 其他不利条件。实现中心目标的实现是通过三个特定目标实现的。 AIM 1是建立强大的基础设施，以支撑并推进该中心的研究和程序化 发展能力并支持将进行预防性干预的早期调查人员的目标 结果试验和相关研究。 AIM 2是护理和扩大临界阶段的临界教师 研究人员通过：（a）诺言科学家主题联系的研究项目； （b）科学心理 来自专业和专业的高级顾问； （c）两个研究核心设施（临床试验物流核心； 统计和数据管理核心）在支持研究项目的基本上涉及； （d）本地 社区咨询委员会，以加强社区和学校的参与； （e）试点种子项目 程序。目标3是通过针对性的招募和培养额外的早期招募和种植的研究能力 在多个学科和中心任务和重点的多个学科和领域的舞台教师研究人员，由 有针对性的机构支持新教师的目标。研究项目的关键跨切割主题 以及整个紧急预防性干预策略，以促进更多的养育 健康儿童发展的环境，加强儿童的自我调节，以确保 干预措施使SES背景较低的儿童受益，而不会污名化，并研究和支持 干预措施的实施质量。儿童福祉研究中心被中毒 加速早期研究人员的轨迹到独立研究人员的地位，增加了国家 下一代预防科学家的劳动力。该中心已经考虑了通过 创新的研究以促进联合预防精神/行为和肥胖的科学基础 问题，导致儿童的福祉。