连接住房援助与无家可归家庭儿童福利的途径
Renae Wilkinson1, Aashna Lal2, Michel H Boudreaux3
1Human Flourishing Program, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, 12 Arrow Street, Suite 100, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA. rwilkinson@fas.harvard.edu.
概括
长期租金补贴通过降低家长的压力,显著减少了儿童的情绪行为问题. 然而,这些住房干预措施主要直接有利于儿童的睡眠,而不是通过介导因素.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 儿童心理学 儿童心理学
- 城市研究 城市研究
背景情况:
- 家庭无家可归率正在上升,增加了儿童患慢性健康问题的风险.
- 长期租补贴在缓解儿童行为和睡眠障碍方面表现有前途.
- 了解这些好处背后的机制对于有效的干预至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查将住房援助干预措施与改善儿童结果联系起来的调解途径.
- 分析家长压力,暴力和粮食不安全等因素如何影响住房补贴的有效性.
- 区分住房干预对儿童情绪行为和睡眠问题的直接和间接影响.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自Family Options Study (FOS) 的数据,这是一项随机对照试验,涉及12个美国地点的约2300个无家可归家庭.
- 通过候选调解员,采用调解模型来评估住房干预措施的间接影响.
- 对基线家庭和儿童特征进行控制,以隔离干预影响.
主要成果:
- 租金补贴对儿童情绪行为问题的积极影响中,约有50.7%是由于父母经济和心理困境减少而产生的.
- 租金补贴对儿童睡眠问题的积极影响在很大程度上是直接的,中介的证据有限.
- 住房干预措施对家庭福祉和儿童健康产生了显著的,尽管复杂的,影响.
结论:
- 稳定的住房对于儿童福祉至关重要,其好处包括减少父母的压力.
- 虽然住房稳定直接改善了儿童的睡眠,但它对行为问题的影响在一定程度上可以通过减轻父母的压力来解释.
- 需要进一步的研究,以确定额外的可修改途径,以改善无家可归家庭儿童健康结果.
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