Progress 09/01/11 to 08/31/14
Outputs
Target Audience: Target audiences include; couples experiencing deployment and individuals at risk for perpetration of spousal and child maltreatment Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? . How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? USAF personnel are able to earn Continuing Educational Units through the semi-annual meetings and trainings coordinated by KSU. Military personnel and their families then continue to benefit from the applications learned by the FAP personnel at these meetings/trainings. Ongoing Family Advocacy System of Records (FASOR)/New Parent Support Program Secondary Data Analysis. At their discretion, Air Force Family Advocacy Program distributes the results of FASOR studies to FAP staff in the field through the FAPNet system (the Air Force's central online resource for the Family Advocacy Program). Where the Air Force Family Advocacy Program has an interest in disseminating study results to the scientific community and the public, professional presentations, journal articles, and news releases are used to distribute results What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Advisory Functions: N/A Project completed Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Program Analysis: KSU will continue to collect data related to the couples, anger management, and parenting secondary prevention programs. We will combine FY2014 data with previous years to strengthen our outcome reporting and we plan to begin collecting follow up data from select bases in order to determine feasibility of an AF-wide follow up project. Collecting follow-up data would allow us to determine longer term program outcomes as well as to compare the effectiveness of program delivery (i.e., weekend vs. weekly format). This project has been funded as a new award for continued data collection and analysis. Ongoing Family Advocacy System of Records (FASOR)/New Parent Support Program Secondary Data Analysis. Papers from this project are currently under review. Researchers will revise the papers as needed. Subcontract is complete. New Parent Support Program Development: Final report has been submitted to the USAF. Subcontract is complete
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
1. Advisory Functions: Kansas State University assisted in the recruitment of speakers and trainers for the Annual Family Advocacy Program Training Conference, to train USAF Treatment Managers on the latest, most affective techniques for interviewing USAF active duty personel and their families. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Program Analysis: : Relevant data (e.g., program type, number of sessions, total number of program hours, program delivery format, participant demographics, and pertinent outcome data) were obtained for couples, anger management, and parenting secondary prevention programs. The 2013 data were combined with previous data (i.e., 2010, 2011, 2012) and analyzed to produce a comprehensive report summarizing the current state of secondary prevention programming in the USAF. Recommendations include collecting follow-up data to determine longer term outcomes and to determine effectiveness of different program formats (i.e., weekend workshops vs. weekly workshops). Continued discussions related to integration of data with Opal program are ongoing. This project was received new award contract for continued collection and analysis. Ongoing Family Advocacy System of Records (FASOR)/New Parent Support Program Secondary Data Analysis. Conduct the first population-based study comparing spouse maltreatment rates before and after combat-related deployments during Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom among married USAF personnel. The sample included all married Air Force members with at least one substantiated incident of spouse physical or emotional abuse and at least one combat-related deployment. Overall, 6,063 individuals in 4,874 couples perpetrated 7,003 spouse abuse incidents across 9,676,517 person-days at risk. This project has been funded in new award for continued analysis. New Parent Support Progam Development: The parent education content was developed to be delivered via the app, approximately 112 parent education notices. Each piece of content includes brief parent education based on common developmental milestones that babies achieve during the first 14 months of life, as well as a specific engagement activity that the father can do with his child. In addition to developing this content, we went through multiple iterations of review including review by the Air Force and two external consultants. This material was then submitted for approval by the Air Force Public Affairs office. Pre- and post-test surveys were developed to evaluate the efficacy of the app. IRB was approved for the project (HUM00070378). The human subjects protection application was submitted to the United States Air Force/ DoD review office, and subsequently revised, according to their specifications. The revised application was resubmitted to both the University of Michigan and the DoD human subjects review panels. The technical components of the app were developed, including the tailoring components within the app and all of the graphics for the app, such as the Mobile Dad logo and graphics on the website. This included user testing to ensure that the app functioned properly and was easy to use. We built the backend web hosting and developed all of the content for the Mobile Dad website: www.mobiledadapp.org, including the procedures for participants to sign up for and use the app and procedures for participants to complete the pre-test and post-test surveys. A “welcome video” was created to orient participants to the Mobile Dad app. This video is on the Mobile Dad website. The PI visited Joint Base San Antonio and conducted key informant interviews at San Antonio Military Medical Center and Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center to develop the recruitment and outreach strategy to engage participants in use of the app. Recruitment materials were created and launched for initial recruitment efforts for the pilot study at Joint Base San Antonio. This phase of the project has been completed. A full report has been submitted to USAF. Spouse Maltreatment Risk Assessment: Completed data collection efforts at Elmendorf, Eglin, Hurlburt, and Andrews Air Force bases to test the effectiveness of a risk assessment measure to determine the best risk factors for predicting risk of violence and injury in spouse physical abuse. No additional data will be collected. This phase of the project has been completed. A full report has been submitted to USAF.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Submitted
Year Published:
2013
Citation:
Lee, S.J., Neugut, T.B., Rosenblum, K.L., Tolman, R.T., Travis, W.J., & Walker, M.H. (2013). Sources of parenting support in early fatherhood: Perspectives of United States Air Force members. Children and Youth Services Review, 35(5), 908-915. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.02.012
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2013
Citation:
Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault (2013). Comparison of rates of child maltreatment per 1,000 children using data from the United States military clinical information systems and data from the United States Department of Health and Human services annual child maltreatment reports.
Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault (2013). Analysis of child maltreatment treatment incidents and intimate partner incidents that met criteria on the first day of the month relative to other days in each month.
Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault (2013). Year to year child fatalities (due to child maltreatment) in United States Air Force families and in the United States general population: 2000-2012.
Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault (2013). Analysis and report on the association between the New Parent Support Program Family Needs Screener scores and incidents of intimate partner maltreatment that met criteria: a longitudinal study.
Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault (2013). Analysis and report on the association between the frequency of New Parent Support Program home visits and incidents of intimate partner maltreatment that met criteria: a longitudinal study.
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Progress 09/01/12 to 08/31/13
Outputs
Target Audience: Target audiences include; couples experiencing deployment and individuals at risk for perpetration of spousal and child maltreatment Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? USAF personnel are able to earn Continuing Educational Units through the semi-annual meetings and trainings coordinated by KSU. Military personnel and their families then continue to benefit from the applications learned by the FAP personnel at these meetings/trainings. Ongoing Family Advocacy System of Records (FASOR)/New Parent Support Program Secondary Data Analysis. At their discretion, Air Force Family Advocacy Program distributes the results of FASOR studies to FAP staff in the field through the FAPNet system (the Air Force's central online resource for the Family Advocacy Program). Where the Air Force Family Advocacy Program has an interest in disseminating study results to the scientific community and the public, professional presentations, journal articles, and news releases are used to distribute results. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Advisory Functions: KSU will continue to assist the USAF staff by guiding overall initiatives and by subcontracting with the other maltreatment experts. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Program Analysis: KSU will continue to collect data related to the couples, anger management, and parenting secondary prevention programs. We will combine FY2014 data with previous years to strengthen our outcome reporting and we plan to begin collecting follow up data from select bases in order to determine feasibility of an AF-wide follow up project. Collecting follow-up data would allow us to determine longer term program outcomes as well as to compare the effectiveness of program delivery (i.e., weekend vs. weekly format). Ongoing Family Advocacy System of Records (FASOR)/New Parent Support Program Secondary Data Analysis. Papers from this project are currently under review. Researchers will revise the papers as needed. Subcontract is complete. New Parent Support Program Development: Currently we are in the process of hiring a Research Assistant to facilitate outreach regarding Mobile Dad to the community
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
1. Advisory Functions: Kansas State University assisted in the recruitment of speakers and trainers for the Annual Family Advocacy Program Training Conference, to train USAF Treatment Managers on the latest, most affective techniques for interviewing USAF active duty personel and their families. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Program Analysis: : Relevant data (e.g., program type, number of sessions, total number of program hours, program delivery format, participant demographics, and pertinent outcome data) were obtained for couples, anger management, and parenting secondary prevention programs. The 2012 data were combined with previous data (i.e., 2010 & 2011) and analyzed to produce a comprehensive report summarizing the current state of secondary prevention programming in the USAF. Recommendations include collecting follow-up data to determine longer term outcomes and to determine effectiveness of different program formats (i.e., weekend workshops vs. weekly workshops). Continued discussions related to integration of data with Opal program are ongoing. Ongoing Family Advocacy System of Records (FASOR)/New Parent Support Program Secondary Data Analysis. Conduct the first population-based study comparing spouse maltreatment rates before and after combat-related deployments during Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom among married USAF personnel. The sample included all married Air Force members with at least one substantiated incident of spouse physical or emotional abuse and at least one combat-related deployment. Overall, 6,063 individuals in 4,874 couples perpetrated 7,003 spouse abuse incidents across 9,676,517 person-days at risk. New Parent Support Progam Development: The parent education content was developed to be delivered via the app, approximately 112 parent education notices. Each piece of content includes brief parent education based on common developmental milestones that babies achieve during the first 14 months of life, as well as a specific engagement activity that the father can do with his child. In addition to developing this content, we went through multiple iterations of review including review by the Air Force and two external consultants. This material was then submitted for approval by the Air Force Public Affairs office. Pre- and post-test surveys were developed to evaluate the efficacy of the app. IRB was approved for the project (HUM00070378). The human subjects protection application was submitted to the United States Air Force/ DoD review office, and subsequently revised, according to their specifications. The revised application was resubmitted to both the University of Michigan and the DoD human subjects review panels. The technical components of the app were developed, including the tailoring components within the app and all of the graphics for the app, such as the Mobile Dad logo and graphics on the website. This included user testing to ensure that the app functioned properly and was easy to use. We built the backend web hosting and developed all of the content for the Mobile Dad website: www.mobiledadapp.org, including the procedures for participants to sign up for and use the app and procedures for participants to complete the pre-test and post-test surveys. A “welcome video” was created to orient participants to the Mobile Dad app. This video is on the Mobile Dad website. The PI visited Joint Base San Antonio and conducted key informant interviews at San Antonio Military Medical Center and Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center to develop the recruitment and outreach strategy to engage participants in use of the app. Recruitment materials were created and launched for initial recruitment efforts for the pilot study at Joint Base San Antonio. Spouse Maltreatment Risk Assessment: Completed data collection efforts at Elmendorf, Eglin, Hurlburt, and Andrews Air Force bases to test the effectiveness of a risk assessment measure to determine the best risk factors for predicting risk of violence and injury in spouse physical abuse. No additional data will be collected.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2013
Citation:
Lee, S.J., Neugut, T.B., Rosenblum, K.L., Tolman, R.T., Travis, W.J., & Walker, M.H. (2013). Sources of parenting support in early fatherhood: Perspectives of United States Air Force members. Children and Youth Services Review, 35(5), 908-915. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.02.012
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2013
Citation:
Rabenhorst, M. M., McCarthy, R. J., & Milner, J. S. (2013). Family Advocacy System of Records and New Parent Support Program research. A presentation at the United States Air Force Community Prevention Division Research meeting, San Antonio, TX.
McCarthy, R. J., Rabenhorst, M. M., Milner, J. S. (2013). Temporal factors and incidents of spouse maltreatment and child maltreatment. A presentation at the United States Air Force Community Prevention Division Research meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Anderson, J., Stith. S. M. (2013). Prevention Program Analyses: Secondary Prevention Programs, FASES-R/MI, IPV Meta-Analysis. A presentation at the United States Air Force Community Prevention Division Research meeting, San Antonio, TX.
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Progress 09/01/11 to 08/31/12
Outputs
OUTPUTS: 1. The completion of the data checking/data cleaning activities and the merging of three large USAF databases (i.e., the USAF Family Advocacy Program Family Advocacy System of Records database with reported child and spouse maltreatment incidents 2. A Request for Proposal was made for the Engaging Fathers Project. 3. Received IRB approval to collect data at Eglin, Hurlburt, and Joint Base Elemendorf-Richardson for Risk Assessment project. PARTICIPANTS: 1. Sandra Stith, Principal Investigator, oversees all aspects of the projects and manages personnel. 2. Research Assistants: Kyle Horst and James Minner completed research at Kansas State University, including literature reviews, note taking and transcribing notes from focus groups and conducting telephone interviews for secondary prevention project. 3. Program Assistant: Maria V. Hughes was responsible for distributing pre/post tests to Air Force Bases for the Secondary prevention project, schedule travel, assist Air Force with conferences, and other duties as assigned. 4. Drs. Joel Milner, Mandy Rabenhorst, and Cindy Thomsen at NIU conducted analyses from a series of requested tasks related to the FASOR project. 5. Drs. Shawna Lee and Kate Rosenblum and colleagues at University of Michigan have facilitated focus groups and are currently working toward the development of this project. TARGET AUDIENCES: Target audiences include; couples experiencing deployment and individuals at risk for perpetration of spousal and child maltreatment. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
1. Advisory Functions: Kansas State University assisted in the recruitment of speakers and trainers for the Annual Family Advocacy Program Training Conference, to train USAF Treatment Managers on the latest, most affective techniques for interviewing USAF active duty personel and their families. 2. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Program Analysis: Kansas State University researchers assisted the USAF Family Advocacy Outreach program in assessing the effectiveness of their prevention efforts. Measured the effectiveness of anger management programs delivered to 810 participants (595 Men/215 Women), relationship enhancement programs delivered to 544 participants (334 Men/210 Women), stress management to 96 participants (60 Men/36 Women), and parenting programs delivered to 800 parents (309 fathers/ 491 mothers). 3. Ongoing Family Advocacy System of Records (FASOR)/New Parent Support Program Secondary Data Analysis. Conduct the first population-based study comparing spouse maltreatment rates before and after combat-related deployments during Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom among married USAF personnel. The sample included all married Air Force members with at least one substantiated incident of spouse physical or emotional abuse and at least one combat-related deployment. Overall, 6,063 individuals in 4,874 couples perpetrated 7,003 spouse abuse incidents across 9,676,517 person-days at risk. 4. New Parent Support Progam Development: A Request for Proposal was offered to potential investigators for this project. 15 proposals were received and reviewed by a panel, which included 3 Kansas State University researchers, 3 USAF personel, and 2 outside experts on Fatherhood and military research. University of Michigan was offered and accepted the subaward. The subaward was released in July 2012, University of Michigan has conducted 4 focus groups. 5. Spouse Maltreatment Risk Assessment: Completed data collection efforts at Ft Riley and Ft Hood to test the effectiveness of a risk assessment measure to determine the best risk factors for predicting risk of violence and injury in spouse physical abuse. Began data collection efforts at Eglin, Hulburt and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Air Force bases.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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