Mexican Immigrants' Perception of Tuberculosis Infection

估计有20亿人，即世界人口的三分之一感染了结核分枝杆菌。如果没有适当的治疗，大约10%的人会发展成活动性疾病。结核分枝杆菌感染者的有效治疗。需要了解当地的信仰、价值观和行为规范。本研究的目的是发展有关如何构建与美墨边境墨西哥移民的信仰、价值观和实践相一致的文化相关的基于社区的干预措施的知识。本研究的目的是发现被诊断为结核分枝杆菌的这一群体的健康文化或解释模型。感染。研究目的包括：a)分析墨西哥移民对结核病预防治疗护理文化背景的解释模型。发生感染;(b)描述在处理结核分枝杆菌过程中发生的自我保健和家庭保健。感染;c)发现那些促进和阻碍被诊断为结核分枝杆菌的墨西哥移民坚持预防性治疗的因素。感染。研究方法将是一个关键的，集中的民族志。这种方法将研究移民及其家庭在美墨边境的社会文化、政治和经济背景下的日常斗争中的观点。

An estimated 2 billion people, or one third of the world's population are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.Tb.) And without proper treatment about 10% will develop active disease. Effective treatment of persons infected with M.Tb. Requires an understanding of the local (emic) beliefs, values, and norms of behavior. The goal of this research is to develop knowledge about how to frame culturally relevant community- based interventions that are congruent with the beliefs, values, and practices of Mexican immigrants of the U.S.-Mexican border. The purpose of this study is to discover the health culture, or explanatory model, of this group who has been diagnosed with M.Tb. Infection. Research aims include: a) analyze the Mexican immigrants' explanatory model of the cultural context of care in which preventive therapy of T.Tb. Infection occurs; b) describe self-care and the household production of health that occurs in the process of dealing with M.Tb. infection; c) discover those factors that are facilitators and barriers to adherence of preventive therapy for Mexican immigrants diagnosed with M.Tb. infection. The research method will be a critical, focused ethnography. This approach will study the perspectives of the immigrants and their families in the every day struggles within the sociocultural, political, and economic context of the U.S.-Mexico borderland.