Chamberlain Patricia, Price Joe M, Reid John B, Landsverk John, Fisher Phillip A, Stoolmiller Mike
Oregon Social Learning Center and Center for Research to Practice, Eugene, OR, USA.
Child Abuse Negl. 2006 Apr;30(4):409-24. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2005.11.004. Epub 2006 Apr 5.
To identify reliable, inexpensive predictors of foster care placement disruption that could be used to assess risk of placement failure.
Using the Parent Daily Report Checklist (PDR), foster or kinship parents of 246 children (5-12 years old) in California were interviewed three times about whether or not their foster child engaged in any of the 30 problem behaviors during the previous 24 h. PDR was conducted during telephone contacts (5-10 min each) that occurred from 1 to 3 days apart at baseline. Disruptions were tracked for the subsequent 12 months. Other potential predictors of disruption were examined, including the child's age, gender, and ethnicity, the foster parent's ethnicity, the number of other children in the foster home, and the type of placement (kin or non-kin).
Foster/kin parents reported an average of 5.77 child problems per day on the PDR checklist. The number of problem behaviors was linearly related to the child's risk of placement disruption during the subsequent year. The threshold for the number of problem behaviors per day that foster and kinship parents tolerated without increased risk of placement disruption for these latency-aged children was 6 or fewer. Children in non-kin placements were more likely to disrupt than those in kinship placements. There was a trend for increased risk of disruption as the number of children in the home increased.
The PDR Checklist may be useful in predicting which placements are at most risk of future disruption, allowing for targeted services and supports.
确定可靠且成本低廉的寄养安置中断预测指标，以用于评估安置失败的风险。
使用家长每日报告清单（PDR），对加利福尼亚州246名5至12岁儿童的寄养或亲属父母进行了三次访谈，询问他们的寄养儿童在过去24小时内是否出现了30种问题行为中的任何一种。PDR是在基线时相隔1至3天进行的电话联系（每次5至10分钟）期间进行的。对随后12个月的安置中断情况进行了跟踪。还研究了其他可能的安置中断预测指标，包括儿童的年龄、性别、种族，寄养父母的种族，寄养家庭中其他儿童的数量，以及安置类型（亲属或非亲属）。
寄养/亲属父母在PDR清单上报告的儿童问题平均每天为5.77个。问题行为的数量与儿童在随后一年中安置中断的风险呈线性相关。对于这些潜伏期年龄的儿童，寄养和亲属父母在不增加安置中断风险的情况下容忍的每日问题行为数量阈值为6个或更少。非亲属安置的儿童比亲属安置的儿童更有可能出现安置中断。随着家庭中儿童数量的增加，安置中断风险有增加的趋势。
PDR清单可能有助于预测哪些安置未来中断风险最大，从而提供有针对性的服务和支持。
