AMERICAN MUSLIM CULTURE--ABUSE, WOMEN, AND HEALTH

这项拟议中的研究将考察美国穆斯林的生活经历， 妇女在情感、身体和性虐待方面的情况。 人们对美国穆斯林人口迅速增长知之甚少。 国家和妇女从这一人口可能会在增加 滥用的风险。因此，提出了研究的具体目标 是：1）描述美国穆斯林妇女遭受虐待的生活经历， 2）找出塑造美国文化的特定因素 穆斯林妇女的经验和对虐待的看法， 更好地了解他们所生活的伊斯兰文化体系。 改善受虐待少数群体妇女的健康状况， 儿童依赖于健康研究， 他们需要有效干预的信息，同时 消除护理障碍。这就需要了解 被虐待的妇女生活在哪里为这种情境提供了一个模型， 基于文化的虐待研究是该计划的长期目标 学习。非结构化解释唯象方法 访谈技术将提供研究设计和方法， 该模型这种方法已经被证明可以产生 丰富的背景数据，反映了文化体系， 它是派生的。最后，这项研究计划是一个 健康研究计划，调查美国人的健康需求 穆斯林人口和少数民族虐待妇女。 最终，希望 研究结果有助于改善这些人的护理服务， 组

The proposed study will examine the lived experiences of American Muslim women with regard to incidence of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Little is known about the rapidly growing Muslim population in the United States and women from this population are likely to be at an increased risk for abuse. Therefore, the specific aims for the proposed research are: 1) to describe American Muslim women's lived experiences with abuse, and 2) to identify culturally specific factors which shape American Muslim women's experiences and perceptions of abuse by obtaining a greater understanding of the Islamic cultural system in which they live. The improvement of health outcomes for abused minority women and their children is dependent upon health research that provides nurses the information they need to effectively intervene while simultaneously removing barriers to care. This requires knowledge of the cultures in which abused women live. Providing a model for this kind of contextual, culturally based abuse research is a long term objective for this program of study. The interpretive phenomenological method using unstructured interviewing techniques will provide the research design and method for this model. This methodological approach has been demonstrated to produce rich contextual data that is reflective of the cultural system from which it is derived. Finally, this program of study is the beginning of a program of health research investigating the health needs of the American Muslim population and minority abused women. Ultimately, it is hoped that research findings can contribute to improved care delivery for these groups.