Emotional Distress and Maternal Health Vulnerability

情绪困扰和孕产妇健康脆弱性

• 批准号: 1947551
• 负责人: Carina Heckert
• 金额: $ 31.83万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1947551&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Emotional; Distress; Maternal; Health; Vulnerability

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Experiences of maternal stress are important mediators of the relationship between mental and reproductive health and vary among women facing different stressors. Identifying the precise factors that affect experiences of diverse mothers and how these, in turn, impact vulnerability, is thus critical to informing efforts aimed at alleviating maternal and infant health disparities. This project examines the experiences of pregnancy among foreign-born immigrant women and native-born women who face a diversity of stressors and supports during pregnancy. The research includes presentations to disseminate results to community stakeholders and a white paper to disseminate results to policymakers. The project will be conducted through a Hispanic Serving Institution, offering research training for undergraduate and graduate students from underrepresented groups.Specifically, this research seeks to understand how women internalize immigration-related stress and in what ways women's experiences shape biological markers of stress. The research builds on the theoretically influential, but often poorly operationalized, concept of embodiment by examining the specific pathways that link experiences of stress and individual histories to demonstrable biological markers of stress. These issues will be investigated using a multi-phased design that includes analysis of survey data, self-reported experiences of stress, biological stress data, health records, and in-depth interviews. The research offers an important window and a holistic perspective on concerns and the differential experiences of immigrants and native-born women in the United States.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。产妇压力的经历是心理和生殖健康之间关系的重要调解人，并在面临不同压力源的妇女之间存在差异。因此，确定影响不同母亲经历的确切因素以及这些因素如何反过来影响脆弱性，对于为旨在减轻孕产妇和婴儿健康差距的努力提供信息至关重要。该项目研究了外国出生的移民妇女和本地出生的妇女在怀孕期间面临各种压力和支持的怀孕经历。研究包括向社区利益攸关方传播研究结果的介绍和向决策者传播研究结果的白色文件。该项目将通过一个西班牙裔服务机构进行，为来自代表性不足群体的本科生和研究生提供研究培训。具体而言，该研究旨在了解女性如何内化移民相关的压力，以及女性的经历如何塑造压力的生物标志。该研究建立在理论上有影响力但往往操作性较差的体现概念之上，通过检查将压力经历和个人历史与可证明的压力生物标志物联系起来的具体途径。这些问题将采用多阶段设计进行调查，包括分析调查数据、自我报告的压力经历、生物压力数据、健康记录和深入访谈。该研究为关注美国移民和本土出生妇女的问题和不同经历提供了一个重要的窗口和整体视角，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。