谁可以获得CASA? 儿童的选择性特征任命了一个CASA倡导者
Cynthia Osborne1, Hilary Warner-Doe1, Jennifer Lawson2
1LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, United States.
Children and youth services review
|January 29, 2024
概括
法院任命特别律师 (CASA) 计划可能会为更复杂案件的儿童提供服务. 这项研究分析了32,349名德克萨斯州的寄养儿童,以确定预测CASA分配的因素,旨在减少未来有效性研究中的偏见.
科学领域:
- 儿童福利研究 儿童福利研究
- 社会工作 干预 分析 分析
- 儿童倡导研究 儿童倡导研究
背景情况:
- 关于法庭任命特别律师 (CASA) 有效性的先前研究受到选择偏见的限制,因为儿童被非随机分配到CASA代表.
- 这种偏见威胁到旨在孤立CASA对儿童和病例结果的影响的研究的内部有效性.
研究的目的:
- 在德克萨斯州两年时间内,检查CASA对德克萨斯州寄养儿童的分配过程中选择偏差的程度.
- 为了确定基线特征,将被任命的儿童与没有接受CASA代表的儿童区分开来.
- 通过控制选择偏差,为CASA有效性的准实验性评估奠定基础.
主要方法:
- 对德克萨斯州32,349名寄养儿童的CASA和州儿童福利行政数据的分析.
- 混合效应后勤回归建模,以确定CASA任命的预测因素.
- 儿童,家庭和案件级别特征的比较,包括有和没有CASA代表的儿童.
主要成果:
- 与非CASA同行相比,被任命为CASA代表的儿童表现出更大的病例复杂性和严重性的指标.
- 在人口层面上预测CASA分配的因素的经验识别得到了实现.
- 该研究控制了一系列因素,并在选择过程中考虑了数据聚类.
结论:
- 这种人口层面的分析提供了关于CASA分配中的选择特征的关键数据.
- 了解这些预测因素对于在未来对CASA有效性的评估中尽量减少选择偏差至关重要.
- 这些发现支持开发先进的准实验设计,以严格评估CASA对儿童福利结果的影响.
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