PREVENTION RESEARCH ON SOCIAL SUPPORT IN MINORITY GROUPS

少数民族群体社会支持的预防研究

• 批准号: 3474757
• 负责人: Laurie J Bauman
• 金额: $ 8.11万
• 依托单位: ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-08-01 至 1993-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3474757
• 关键词: chronic disease /disorder; coping; ethnic group; human population study; interview; longitudinal human study; mother child interaction; psychological stressor; social support network; stress; urban poverty area

Social supports has been frequently implicated as a mediating variable between stress and psychological symptoms. As a result, interventions manipulating social support systems of high-risk individuals are a common prevention strategy. As a prelude to program development, this study intends to: 1) describe the amounts, types and sources of natural support available to inner-city mothers of chronically ill children and to describe how patterns of support change over time; 2) to identify factors associated with the availability of support to mothers, specifically (a) the intensity of the stressor (measured by the functional incapacity of the child and level of care the child requires); (b) the chronicity of the stressor (acutely ill vs. chronically ill child); (c) presence of other stressors in the mother's life; (d) race/ethic group; 3) analyze how type, amount and sources of support are related to psychological symptomatology in mothers. A prospective longitudinal design is adopted. Over a five-year period we plan to interview 200 mothers whose children are newly diagnosed with a chronic illness and 200 with an acutely ill child and to reinterview them twice at 5 months and 11 months post- diagnosis.

社会支持经常被认为是一种中介