RAPID: Cultural Patterns in Stigma in the Transmission of Disease: Ebola in Two Dallas Neighborhoods

该项目是为了响应NSF 15-006关于埃博拉病毒的亲爱的同事信而提交的。科学研究人员已经确定，控制疾病的努力有很大的差异，这取决于不同群体如何看待他们的脆弱性。在不同的文化、语言和文化背景下，对风险和耻辱的看法可能有很大差异。该项目旨在探讨在受埃博拉影响的社区背景下，有关污名和风险的想法如何演变。该项目有可能为关于如何改善人类对移动的健康威胁的反应的公共卫生辩论提供信息，同时促进公共安全以减少传播的威胁。医学人类学家史密斯-莫里斯博士和文化人类学家费斯·尼布斯博士都是达拉斯居民，他们正在受影响的达拉斯社区进行研究，我们有一个独特的Vantage，可以比较社区一级对这种传染病的经验，以及不同社会经济阶层、种族和语言混合以及文化的居民对耻辱的经验。 该项目涉及两个关键问题。 首先，媒体对达拉斯的三例埃博拉病例以及受害者所在社区的大量报道，人类的行为发生了怎样的变化？ 其次，人们在社区中单独和集体改变行为的方式是否存在文化模式，以管理风险和耻辱，或分享和应对有关埃博拉病毒的教育材料？利用在可比的精神和公共卫生环境中已被证明有效的耻辱量表，研究人员将调整提示，以包括埃博拉病毒特有的问题。研究人员随后将进行更深入的访谈，研究埃博拉病毒和耻辱感，信息追踪以及埃博拉危机对资源和行动的影响。定量和定性数据的调查，访谈，媒体分析，并参与观察研究中的两个社区将被编目和分析的一致性软件广泛推荐的基于语料库的方法。研究结果有望使人们更好地了解城市、多元文化社区的危机管理模式，以便未来的公共卫生和教育战略更加有效。

This project was submitted in response to NSF 15-006 Dear Colleague Letter on Ebola. Scientific researchers have established that efforts to contain disease are highly variable depending on how different groups of people perceive their vulnerability. Perceptions of risk and stigma can vary considerably between different cultural, linguistic and cultural settings. This project proposes to explore how ideas about stigma and risk evolve in the context of communities impacted by Ebola. The project has the potential to inform public health debates about how to improve human response to mobile health threats, while promoting public safety to reduce the threat of transmission.Drs. Smith-Morris, medical anthropologist, and Dr. Faith Nibbs, cultural anthropologist, both Dallas residents with ongoing research in affected Dallas neighborhoods, have a unique vantage point from which to compare neighborhood-level experience of this infectious disease, and the experiences of stigma by residents of different socioeconomic class, ethnic and linguistic mix, and culture. The project addresses two key questions. First, how is human behavior changing in response to heavy media coverage of the three Dallas Ebola cases, and the neighborhoods from which those victims emerged? And second, are there cultural patterns in the way that people change their behaviors, both individually and collectively in neighborhoods, to manage risk and stigma, or to share and respond to educational materials about Ebola? Drawing upon stigma scales that have proven effective in comparable mental and public health contexts, the researchers will adapt the prompts to include questions specific to Ebola. The researchers will then follow up with more in-depth interviews that examine the Ebola and stigma, information tracing, and the impact of the Ebola crisis on resources and actions. Quantitative and qualitative data from surveys, interviews, media analysis, and participant observation within the two communities under study will be catalogued and analyzed with concordance software widely recommended for corpus-based methods. The results are expected to create a better understanding of crisis management patterns in urban, multi-cultural neighborhoods, so that future public health and education strategies may be more efficient and more effective.