Daro Deborah, McCurdy Karen, Falconnier Lydia, Winje Carolyn, Anisfeld Elizabeth, Katzev Aphra, Keim Ann, LeCroy Craig W, McGuigan William, Nelson Carnot
Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
J Prev Interv Community. 2007;34(1-2):181-204. doi: 10.1300/J005v34n01_09.
Guided by an integrated theory of parent participation, this study examines the role community characteristics play in influencing a parent's decision to use voluntary child abuse prevention programs. Multiple regression techniques were used to determine if different community characteristics, such as neighborhood distress and the community's ratio of caregivers to those in need of care, predict service utilization levels in a widely available home visiting program. Our findings suggest that certain community characteristics are significant predictors of the extent to which families utilize voluntary family supports over and above the proportion of variance explained by personal characteristics and program experiences. Contrary to our initial assumptions, however, new parents living in the most disorganized communities received more home visits than program participants living in more organized communities. The article concludes with recommendations on how community capacity building might be used to improve participant retention.
在家长参与的综合理论指导下，本研究考察了社区特征在影响家长决定使用自愿性儿童虐待预防项目方面所起的作用。运用多元回归技术来确定不同的社区特征，如邻里困境以及社区中照顾者与需要照顾者的比例，是否能预测一个广泛实施的家访项目中的服务利用率。我们的研究结果表明，某些社区特征是家庭使用自愿性家庭支持程度的重要预测因素，其超出了个人特征和项目经历所能解释的方差比例。然而，与我们最初的假设相反，生活在最混乱社区的新父母比生活在更有序社区的项目参与者接受了更多的家访。文章最后就如何利用社区能力建设来提高参与者留存率提出了建议。
