PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (DISABILITY)

博士前奖学金计划（残疾）

• 批准号: 6206953
• 负责人: CARRIE E FOOTE
• 金额: $ 2.25万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-01 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6206953
• 关键词: HIV infections; acupuncture /acupressure; alternative medicine; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; dietary supplements; folk medicine; human subject; medicinal plants; meditation; nutrition related tag; plant extracts; social support network; sociology /anthropology

This research investigates the social processes that lead to the use of alternative medicine to manage HIV disease. The specific aims of the proposed research are (1) to conduct a qualitative study of the social processes by which persons with HIV disease become users of different kinds of alternative medicine for the management of HIV disease (e.g., self care such as taking nutritional supplements or engaging in meditation, and formal care such as receiving care from an acupuncturist or herbalist), (2) to investigate how social networks, health beliefs and ideologies, stratification, (i.e., race, class and gender), and other socio-cultural characteristics influence decision making about using (and not using) alternative medicine, and (3) to increase our understanding of how persons with HIV disease use alternative medicine to meet their health needs by documenting their health practices, concerns, and experiences while using alternative medicine. Between sixty and eighty interviews will be conducted with persons with HIV disease. These data will be analyzed using accepted techniques for content and grounded theory analysis. The findings will help us understand and explain why people use alternative medicine, broader changes in health practices, as well as advance sociological understandings of illness behavior and the health seeking process.

这项研究调查了导致使用替代医学来管理艾滋病毒疾病的社会过程。拟议研究的具体目标是：（1）对艾滋病毒感染者使用不同种类的替代药物治疗艾滋病毒疾病的社会过程进行定性研究（例如，自我护理如服用营养补充剂或参与冥想，以及正式护理如接受针灸师或草药师的护理），（2）调查社交网络、健康信念和意识形态、分层（即，种族、阶级和性别），以及其他社会文化特征影响使用（和不使用）替代医学的决策，以及（3）通过记录艾滋病毒感染者使用替代医学时的健康实践、担忧和经历，增加我们对他们如何使用替代医学满足健康需求的理解。将与60至80名艾滋病毒感染者进行面谈。这些数据将使用内容和扎根理论分析的公认技术进行分析。这些发现将帮助我们理解和解释为什么人们使用替代医学，更广泛的健康实践变化，以及推进对疾病行为和寻求健康过程的社会学理解。