Evaluation of Intervention for Siblings in Foster Care

对寄养兄弟姐妹的干预评价

• 批准号: 7752724
• 负责人: LEWIS I BANK
• 金额: $ 66.31万
• 依托单位: PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-18 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7752724
• 关键词: 15 year old; 2 year old; 4 year old; Academic achievement; Adherence; Adolescent; Adult; African American; Age; Area; Behavioral; Biological; Brothers; Caring; Caucasians; Caucasoid Race; Characteristics; Child; Cognitive; Collaborations; Communities; Control Groups; County; Data; Data Sources; Development; Educational Curriculum; Educational Intervention; Elements; Emotional; Enrollment; Evaluation; Family; Focus Groups; Fostering; Friends; Gender; Growth; Home environment; Intervention; Interview; Leadership; Learning; Life; Linear Models; Measures; Mental Health; Modeling; Neighborhoods; Not Hispanic or Latino; Oregon; Outcome; Parents; Participant; Procedures; Process; Protocols documentation; Quality of life; Race; Randomized; Randomized Clinical Trials; Records; Recruitment Activity; Regression Analysis; Research; Risk; Schools; Series; Services; Siblings; Sister; Stressful Event; System; Telephone; Testing; Theoretical model; Time; Training; Treatment Efficacy; Work; Youth; aged; base; care systems; child protective service; cohort; disability; externalizing behavior; foster care; foster child; foster home; foster parent; grandparent; improved; interest; maltreatment; peer; post intervention; programs; public health relevance; response; service utilization; skills; statistics; success; teacher; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): National estimates indicate that roughly 70% of children in foster care have one or more siblings also in care. Exact percentages vary by state, but several data sources suggest that about 50% of early adolescent foster youth are placed apart from one or more of their siblings. Relationships between these siblings may be critical in providing them a sense of connection and emotional continuity as they are removed from much that is familiar (e.g. their home, parents, and friends). Historically, efforts to strengthen ties of foster children with their families have focused on adults (e.g., biological parents, grandparents). Limited research exists on the relationships of siblings in foster care. The central aim of the proposed study is to evaluate the impact of the Sibling plus Parent Management Training (SPMT) intervention as compared to Parent Management Training only (PMT) on key constructs of sibling relationship quality, mental health, academic success, and quality of life for youth in foster care. Conducted in partnership with the Oregon DHS Foster Care program, 240 sibling dyads and their foster parents will be enrolled in six cohorts. Siblings may live together or in separate placements. Dyads will consist of (1) a target youth in care that is 11-15 years of age, and (2) a younger sibling in care who is 7-15 years of age and within 4 years of age of the target youth. Sibling dyads will be matched as living together or living apart; the matched dyads will be randomly assigned to either the SPMT or PMT-only group, with all study-enrolled foster parents receiving PMT intervention components. The SPMT intervention includes a sibling component as well as foster parent PMT. The sibling intervention component includes eight cognitive behavioral sessions of skills learning/practice, and four community activities planned by siblings with their interventionist coaches. For foster parents, there is a 4-session PMT curriculum emphasizing skills learning and practice with their study-enrolled foster child. Additional sessions are available to foster parents on request. Foster parents will also be able to access and troubleshoot PMT materials and strategies via weekly staff check-in calls, and the project website. Major wave assessments will be conducted at baseline, intervention termination (6 months), follow-along1 (6-month post-intervention) and follow-along2 (12-month post-intervention). Brief, bi-monthly phone interviews for youth and foster parents will collect service utilization data and global ratings of outcome constructs for use in growth-modeling analyses. Hierarchical Linear Models (HLM) and multiple regression analyses will be used to test (1) the prediction that SPMT siblings will improve more than PMT siblings on key outcomes, and (2) whether intervention efficacy varies by sibling placement (together vs. apart) and participant characteristics such as race, gender, and disability.

描述（由申请人提供）：国家估计表明，大约70％的寄养儿童也有一个或多个兄弟姐妹。确切的百分比因州而异，但有几个数据来源表明，大约50％的青少年寄养青年与他们的一个或多个兄弟姐妹分开。这些兄弟姐妹之间的关系可能至关重要，因为它们从许多熟悉的人（例如他们的家，父母和朋友）中删除了他们的联系和情感连续性。从历史上看，加强寄养儿童与家人的关系的努力集中在成年人（例如亲生父母，祖父母）上。关于兄弟姐妹在寄养方面的关系的研究有限。拟议研究的核心目的是评估同胞和父母管理培训（SPMT）干预措施的影响，而仅父母管理培训（PMT）对同胞关系质量，心理健康，学术成就和质量的关键结构（PMT）青年的生活在寄养中。与俄勒冈州国土安全部寄养计划合作进行，240个兄弟姐妹Dyads及其寄养父母将入学六个同伙。兄弟姐妹可以一起生活或在单独的位置中生活。二元组将包括（1）一个11-15岁的目标青年，以及（2）年轻的兄弟姐妹，他年满7-15岁，在目标青年4岁之内。兄弟姐妹的二元组将与生活在一起或分开生活。匹配的二元组将随机分配给SPMT或仅PMT组，所有研究注册的寄养父母都接受PMT干预组件。 SPMT干预包括兄弟姐妹组件以及寄养父母PMT。兄弟姐妹干预部分包括八个认知能力学习/练习的认知行为，以及由兄弟姐妹及其干预主义教练计划的四项社区活动。对于寄养父母来说，有一个4会议的PMT课程强调技能学习和练习，他们的学习成绩为寄养孩子。可应要求提供其他会议以培养父母。寄养父母还将能够通过每周的员工入住电话和项目网站访问和解决PMT材料和策略。重大波浪评估将在基线，干预终止（6个月），后续1（干预后6个月）和后续2（干预后12个月）进行。简短的，每两个月的电话面试对青年和寄养父母的访谈将收集服务利用数据以及结果构建的全球评级，以用于增长模型分析。分层线性模型（HLM）和多元回归分析将用于测试（1）SPMT兄弟姐妹将改善比PMT兄弟姐妹对关键结果的预测更多，并且（2）干预效率是否因兄弟姐妹的放置而有所不同（一起）以及种族，性别和残疾等参与者特征。