IDENTIFYING AND EXPLORING PROFILES OF HOME-BASED CHILD CARE PROVIDERS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY OF LICENSED AND UNLICENSED PROVIDERS

识别和探索家庭托儿服务提供者的概况：针对有执照和无执照的提供者的混合方法研究

• 批准号: 100182
• 负责人: RENA HALLAM
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-29 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/100182
• 关键词: IDENTIFYING; EXPLORING; PROFILES; HOME; BASED

This project seeks to broaden the understanding of home- based child care providers who receive child care subsidy and the quality of care they provide. It is a mixed methods examination of licensed and unlicensed home-based child care providers. The study will use a national sample of home-based providers from the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE; NSECE Project Team, 2013) to explore national trends, as well as a sample of providers in Delaware to garner a deeper understanding of the results of the analysis of the national data. Connecting the state-specific sample to the national sample will allow a more in-depth exploration of the practices and beliefs of home- based providers and provide insight into how to better tailor quality improvement efforts to meet their needs. Using data on listed and unlisted paid home-based providers from the NSECE, latent profile analysis will be employed to identify profiles of providers based on their caregiving beliefs and practices, perceived social support, professional engagement, and family support. The analysis will also explore how these profiles may differ based on providers' licensing status and subsidy use. The research questions for the project are as follows: To what extent do home-based providers group into profiles based on key characteristics related to their beliefs, practices, and professional engagement? How do these profiles align with licensing status? b. How do these profiles align with subsidy receipt? What is the predicted profile membership of home-based providers in Delaware? How do home-based providers in each profile perceive their role and what is the quality of care they provide to children? What is the relationship between providers' role perceptions and quality of care provided?

该项目旨在扩大接受儿童保育补贴的家庭儿童保育提供者及其所提供的保育质量的了解。这是对有执照和无执照的家庭托儿服务提供者的混合方法检查。该研究将使用全国早期护理和教育调查（NSECE；NSECE 项目团队，2013）中的全国家庭提供者样本来探索全国趋势，并使用特拉华州的提供者样本来更深入地了解国家数据分析结果。将州特定样本与国家样本联系起来将有助于更深入地探索家庭提供者的实践和信念，并深入了解如何更好地调整质量改进工作以满足他们的需求。使用 NSECE 列出的和未列出的付费家庭提供者的数据，将采用潜在概况分析来根据提供者的护理信念和实践、感知的社会支持、专业参与和家庭支持来识别提供者的概况。该分析还将探讨这些概况如何根据提供商的许可状态和补贴使用情况而有所不同。该项目的研究问题如下：家庭服务提供者在多大程度上根据与其信仰、实践和专业参与相关的关键特征进行分组？这些配置文件如何与许可状态保持一致？ b.这些资料如何与补贴收据保持一致？特拉华州家庭医疗服务提供者的预计会员资格是什么？每种情况下的家庭提供者如何看待他们的角色以及他们为儿童提供的护理质量如何？ 提供者的角色认知与所提供的护理质量之间有什么关系？