Dopp Alex R, Schaeffer Cindy M, Swenson Cynthia Cupit, Powell Jennifer S
Department of Psychological Science, University of Arkansas, 216 Memorial Hall, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA.
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Adm Policy Ment Health. 2018 Nov;45(6):876-887. doi: 10.1007/s10488-018-0870-1.
This study evaluated the economics of Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) by applying the Washington State Institute for Public Policy (WSIPP) cost-benefit model to data from a randomized effectiveness trial with 86 families (Swenson et al. in JFP 24:497-507, 2010b). The net benefit of MST-CAN, versus enhanced outpatient treatment, was $26,655 per family at 16 months post-baseline. Stated differently, every dollar spent on MST-CAN recovered $3.31 in savings to participants, taxpayers, and society at large. Policymakers and public service agencies should consider these findings when making investments into interventions for high-need families involved with child protective services.
本研究通过将华盛顿州公共政策研究所（WSIPP）的成本效益模型应用于一项针对86个家庭的随机有效性试验数据，评估了针对虐待和忽视儿童的多系统治疗（MST-CAN）的经济性（斯文森等人，《家庭心理学杂志》24:497-507，2010b）。与强化门诊治疗相比，MST-CAN在基线后16个月时每个家庭的净收益为26,655美元。换言之，每投入1美元用于MST-CAN，可为参与者、纳税人及整个社会节省3.31美元。政策制定者和公共服务机构在对涉及儿童保护服务的高需求家庭的干预措施进行投资决策时，应考虑这些研究结果。
