BEREAVEMENT IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND APPALACHIAN ELDERS

描述：（改编自申请人的摘要）本申请寻求 支持增加对老年人经历的了解， 非裔美国人和传统阿巴拉契亚人的丧亲配偶 南方农村的遗产。 这项民族志研究旨在 获得有关这些成员的传统方式的知识 不值得和研究不足的文化群体处理丧亲之痛。 在这项为期三年的研究中，数据将从大约 18名线人。 告密者的身份将通过一家临终关怀机构 程序. 作为临终关怀的志愿者，调查员将收集 数据在举报人的家庭和社区使用参与者 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。 志愿者参与身体护理 帮助垂死的人做家务，比如购物， 打扫和维护房子。 去世后，志愿者参加 葬礼，守灵或其他哀悼仪式，往往成为一个 为死者家属提供情感支持的人。由于这种密集的， 延长（与举报人的联系将保持最多两个 数据收集，应产生大量知识 至于丧亲之痛， (the（一）孝，孝;（二）孝，孝。 丧亲之痛）。 以现场记录和转录的形式提供的数据 采访将被视为文本，并将受到一个 诠释学分析 在这个多步骤的解释过程中， 数据的分类，文本将被详细审查， 最重要的或典型的数据将被识别和组织 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，是第一步， 研究计划，最终将：（a）确定这些 使人易受伤害的人和环境的特点 因为它们抑制了传统的处理丧亲之痛的方法， （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.