Housing instability in child welfare-involved families: Impact on emotional, beh

涉及儿童福利的家庭的住房不稳定：对情绪的影响

• 批准号: 7979487
• 负责人: Patrick J Fowler
• 金额: $ 7.23万
• 依托单位: DE PAUL UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-02 至 2012-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7979487
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Adolescent; Behavioral; Build-it; Caregivers; Child; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Development; Child Welfare; Complex; Data; Data Analyses; Development; Ecology; Effectiveness; Emotional; Face; Family; Family Study; Future; General Population; Growth; Homelessness; Housing; Individual; Intervention; Left; Life; Longitudinal Studies; Modeling; Movement; NIH Program Announcements; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Nature; Outcome; Personal Satisfaction; Policies; Population; Poverty; Prevalence; Preventive Intervention; Probability Samples; Problem behavior; Procedures; Process; Randomized Controlled Trials; Recommendation; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Risk; Role; Sampling; Science; Secure; Selection Bias; Services; Shelter facility; Social Policies; Surveys; System; Testing; Time; Work; effective intervention; foster care; housing instability; intervention effect; member; prevent; public health relevance; supported housing; voucher

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study proposes to conduct secondary data analyses of the National Survey of Children and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), a nationally representative longitudinal study of families investigated for child abuse and neglect. The aim of this project is to inform service provision targeted at families in contact with child welfare services primarily due to the inability to secure safe and affordable housing. Findings will inform the development of an R01 proposal to use a natural randomized-controlled trial to test the effects of housing voucher provision compared to services-as-usual. The present study intends to test the hypothesis that housing instability disrupts the development of emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes in children. Analyses will, first, examine within-individual changes on housing instability and associated growth in developmental outcomes over time. By explicitly modeling housing changes, analyses directly estimate the effects of moving into and out of housing stability on developmental growth trajectories. Analyses also propose to examine whether child developmental problems are mitigated or prevented when caregivers receive housing vouchers (formerly known as Section 8). If housing instability predicts outcomes, then the receipt of assistance to find and pay for housing should relate to better outcomes. In the absence of experimental data, this study proposes to use propensity score matching (PSM) procedures to minimize selection bias and test the effects of housing vouchers on child welfare-involved families. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The aim of this project is to inform service provision targeted at families in contact with child welfare services due to the inability to secure safe and affordable housing. Findings will inform the understanding of risk for housing instability and the development of housing interventions.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究拟对全国儿童和青少年福祉调查 (NSCAW) 进行二次数据分析，这是一项全国代表性的纵向研究，针对受虐待和忽视儿童的家庭进行调查。该项目的目的是向主要由于无法获得安全和负担得起的住房而接触儿童福利服务的家庭提供服务。研究结果将为 R01 提案的制定提供信息，该提案将使用自然随机对照试验来测试住房券提供与常规服务相比的效果。 本研究旨在检验以下假设：住房不稳定会扰乱儿童情绪、行为和学业成绩的发展。首先，分析将检查个人内部住房不稳定的变化以及随着时间的推移发展成果的相关增长。通过对住房变化进行明确建模，分析可以直接估计进入和退出住房稳定对发展增长轨迹的影响。分析还建议检查当照顾者获得住房券（以前称为第 8 节）时，儿童发育问题是否得到缓解或预防。如果住房不稳定预示着结果，那么获得寻找和支付住房的援助应该会带来更好的结果。在缺乏实验数据的情况下，本研究建议使用倾向评分匹配（PSM）程序来最大限度地减少选择偏差，并测试住房券对涉及儿童福利的家庭的影响。 公共卫生相关性：该项目的目的是为因无法获得安全且负担得起的住房而需要接触儿童福利服务的家庭提供服务。研究结果将有助于了解住房不稳定风险和制定住房干预措施。