NATURAL HELPING FUNCTIONS OF LAY HEALTH ADVISERS IN BREAST-CANCER EDUCATION
NATURAL HELPING FUNCTIONS OF LAY HEALTH ADVISERS IN BREAST-CANCER EDUCATION
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DOI：
10.1007/bf00694741
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发表时间：
1995-07-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
SMITH, J
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作者：
ENG, E;SMITH, J
拯救我们的姐妹篇项目建立在95个“自然助手”的作用，以增加在北卡罗来纳州一个县的老年非裔美国妇女的乳房X光检查。自然帮助者是其他人自然向其寻求建议，情感支持和有形帮助的人。14个焦点小组访谈的结果表明，老年妇女在有女性特有的问题时，而不是在寻求专业人员的帮助之前，会寻求这些人的帮助。自然助手的特点，揭示了在调查结果中，被用来识别和招募他们成为训练有素的非专业健康顾问在乳腺癌教育。通过SOS项目，自然助手提供了一个以社区为基础的护理和社会支助系统，补充了保健专业人员的更专业的作用;通过保健专业人员开始无法获得的场所和方式将他们与妇女联系起来。非专业健康顾问的三个作用是：（1）帮助社交网络中有专业人员难以满足需求的个人;（2）与专业人员谈判，争取卫生系统的支持;（3）调动社区协会的资源，以维持卫生系统的支持。
The Save Our Sisters Project builds on the roles of 95 ''natural helpers'' to increase mammography screening among older African American women in a NC county. Natural helpers are lay people to whom others naturally turn for advice, emotional support, and tangible aid. Findings from 14 focus group interviews showed that older women seek out these individuals when they have a female-specific concern, rather than or before seeking help from professionals. The characteristics of natural helpers, revealed in the findings, were used to identify and recruit them to become trained lay health advisors in breast cancer education. Through the SOS Project, natural helpers provide a community-based system of care and social support that complements the more specialized role of health professionals; linking them to women through places and ways that no health professional could begin to acquire. The three roles of lay health advisors are: (1) to assist individuals in their social networks with needs that are difficult for professionals to address; (2) to negotiate with professionals for support from the health system; and (3) to mobilize the resources of associations in their community to sustain support from the health system.