BEREAVEMENT IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND APPALACHIAN ELDERS

描述：(改编自申请人的摘要)本申请旨在 支持增加对老年人经历的理解， 非洲裔美国人和传统阿巴拉契亚人的丧偶 南方农村的遗产。这项民族志研究的目的是 了解这些成员的传统方式 不应得的和缺乏研究的文化团体处理丧亲之痛。 在这项为期三年的研究中，数据将从大约 18名告密者。告密者将通过临终关怀中心确认身份 程序。调查员作为临终关怀中心的志愿者，将聚集在 使用Participant在举报人家中和社区中的数据 观察技术。临终关怀志愿者经常变得非常接近 他们帮助的家庭。志愿者参与到身体护理中来 以及帮助做家务，如购物和 打扫和保养房子。死后，志愿者们参加 丧礼葬礼、守灵或其他哀悼仪式，通常成为一种 为失去亲人的人提供情感支持。正因为如此，密集和 延长时间(将与举报人保持最多两次联系 年)数据收集，应该产生大量的知识 关于丧失亲人(从损失中恢复过来所需的时间)，悲伤 (丧亲之情)和哀悼(丧礼 丧亲之痛)。实地笔记形式的数据和抄写 采访将被视为文本，并将受到 解释学分析。在这个多步骤的口译过程中， 数据分类，将对文本进行详细审查，并 将确定和组织最重要或最典型的数据 这些告密者丧亲之痛的主题。 这项研究将描述这些人使用的传统方法 处理丧亲之痛的两种文化，是 研究方案，最终将：(A)确定 使人易受伤害的人和环境的特征 因为它们阻碍了处理丧亲之痛的传统方法 成功，以及(B)将设计和测试护理干预措施 这些脆弱的人。

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted from applicant's abstract) This application seeks support to add to the understanding of the experiences of elderly, bereaved spouses of African American and Traditional Appalachian heritage in the rural south. This ethnographic study is aimed at gaining knowledge about the traditional ways in which members of these undeserved and poorly studied cultural groups deal with bereavement. During this three-year study, data will be gathered from approximately 18 informants. The informants will be identified through a hospice program. The investigator as a volunteer for the hospice, will gather data in the informants' homes and communities using participant observation techniques.Hospice volunteers often become quite close to the families they help. Volunteers are involved in the physical care of the dying person and help with domestic chores such as shopping and cleaning and maintaining the home. After the death, volunteers attend the funeral, wake, or other mourning rituals and often become an emotional support person for the bereaved.Because of this intensive and extended (contact with informants will be maintained for up to two years) data collection, considerable knowledge should be generated concerning bereavement (the time it takes to recover from loss), grief (the emotions of bereavement), and mourning (the rituals of bereavement). Data in the form of field notes and transcribed interviews will be treated as texts and will be subjected to a hermeneutic analysis. In this multi-step process of interpretation and categorization of data, the texts will be examined in detail and the most significant or exemplary datum will be identified and organized into the themes that characterize the bereavement of these informants. This research, which will describe the traditional methods used by these two cultures for dealing with bereavement, is the first step in a program of research that will eventually: (a) identify those characteristics of person and environment that make people vulnerable because they inhibit traditional methods of handling bereavement from being successful, and (b) will design and test nursing interventions for these vulnerable people.