MANAGING CONFLICT TRAINING--OLDER AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN

众所周知，老年妇女经常与成年子女、虚弱的父母、疗养院室友和邻居发生冲突。研究表明，年长的非裔美国女性倾向于在冲突中压抑自己的愤怒，并以顺从的方式回应冲突局势。由于众所周知，老年非裔美国妇女非常容易患上与压抑愤怒有关的疾病，因此迫切需要对这一群体的成员进行关于促进健康战略的培训，以解决冲突。然而，培训产品并不存在。我们的建议满足了这一重要需求。该项目的第一阶段是一项可行性研究，目的是将一种适合文化的冲突情景录制成培训录像带，用于为年长的非裔美国妇女建设性地解决冲突，并评估其效果。在该SBIR项目的第二阶段，将对另外两个冲突情景进行录像和制作，完成配套的培训员手册，对该产品进行重复措施评估研究，并分发培训录像带。预计老年住房、老年中心、成人日间健康中心、社会成人日间护理中心、社区卫生中心、管理式护理和其他组织将购买用于健康促进节目的录像带。建议的商业应用：套餐将包含由年长的非裔美国妇女制定的3个文化上适当的冲突的视频，以及供观众讨论和角色扮演的培训人员手册。产品手册将发送给社区卫生CTR.，670个AOAS，14,500个美国高级CTR，50个受管护理机构。老年人入学率很高，有15,000家养老院，其中约13%的非洲裔美国人妇女居留。它将通过NAT‘l Assoc传播。老年教育学院。它将与教育发展中心合作进行营销和传播。

It is well documented that older women are often in conflict - with adult children, frail parents, nursing home roommates, and neighbors. Research shows that older African American women tend to suppress their anger in conflict, and respond to conflict situations in submissive ways. Since older African American women are known to be highly vulnerable to illnesses associated with suppressed anger, the need for training members of this group in health-promoting strategies for conflict resolution is urgent. Yet training products do not exist. What we propose addresses this important need. Phase I of this project is a feasibility study for the purpose of videotaping one culturally-appropriate conflict scenario for use in a training videotape package on constructive conflict resolution for older African American women, and evaluating its effectiveness. In Phase II of this SBIR project, two additional conflict scenarios will be videotaped and produced, the accompanying trainers manual will be completed, a repeated measures evaluation study of the product will be conducted, and the training videotape package will be distributed. Senior housing, senior center, adult day health center, social adult day care center, community health center, managed care, and other organizations can be expected to purchase the videotape for health-promotion programming. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: Package will contain video of 3 culturally-appropriate conflicts enacted by older African American women, and trainers manual for audience discussion & role play. Product brochures will be sent to community health ctrs., 670 AoAs, 14,500 U.S. senior ctrs, the 50 managed care orgs. with high elderly enrollment, & 15,000 nursing homes where about 13% of all African Am. women reside.it will be disseminated through Nat'l Assoc. of Geriatric Educ.Ctrs. It will be marketed & disseminated in collaboration with Educational Development Ctr.