Dissertation Research: Social Networks, Health Beliefs, and Women's Treatment Seeking for Tuberculosis in Uganda

论文研究：乌干达的社交网络、健康信念和寻求结核病治疗的妇女

• 批准号: 9727402
• 负责人: Janet McGrath
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Case Western Reserve University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-02-01 至 1999-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9727402&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Social; Networks; Health

This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from Case Western Reserve University. The project studies the treatment seeking process for tuberculosis (TB) among relatively understudied Baganda women in Uganda. It explores the variation in the role of a patient's social network, across urban and rural settings, in seeking treatment. The project will interview one hundred women who have been diagnosed with TB from two sites, an urban TB clinic and a rural health clinic. Subjects will be interviewed three times over six months using open-ended and semi-structured survey instruments to determine symptom labeling, behavioral alterations, consultation with friends and relatives and how they sought treatment from professional care givers, and their reaction to situations where the advice of traditional care-givers contradicts that of bio-medical providers. The study will contribute to our knowledge of the interaction between social network structure and functioning in medical treatment-seeking for this chronic illness. The advance in our understanding of general principles of how and why people seek and adhere to medical advice will be important in developing programs of health improvement. The project also increases our expertise about this important region of the world.

本项目涉及凯斯西储大学人类学学生的论文研究。该项目研究了乌干达巴干达妇女寻求结核病治疗的过程。 它探讨了患者的社会网络的作用的变化，在城市和农村的设置，在寻求治疗。 该项目将采访来自两个地点的100名被诊断患有结核病的妇女，一个是城市结核病诊所，一个是农村卫生诊所。 受试者将在六个月内接受三次访谈，使用开放式和半结构化的调查工具，以确定症状标签，行为改变，与朋友和亲戚的协商，以及他们如何寻求专业护理人员的治疗，以及他们对传统护理人员的建议与生物医学提供者的建议相矛盾的情况的反应。 这项研究将有助于我们的知识之间的相互作用的社会网络结构和功能的医疗寻求这种慢性疾病。我们对人们如何以及为什么寻求和坚持医疗建议的一般原则的理解的进步，对于制定改善健康的计划将是重要的。该项目还增加了我们对世界这一重要地区的专业知识。