Minority Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program

少数族裔博士前奖学金计划

• 批准号: 6984208
• 负责人: LARA M VAZ
• 金额: $ 2.4万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6984208
• 关键词: Africa; African; HIV infections; adolescence (12-20); caregivers; children; clinical research; culture; developmental psychology; health behavior; health disparity; human subject; middle childhood (6-11); pediatric AIDS; predoctoral investigator; preschool child (1-5); social behavior; social support network; socioenvironment

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The candidate's dissertation research is an exploration of the behavioral and sociocultural factors that influence the disclosure of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection to children living with HIV infection, and the efficacy of social support systems to support disclosure, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo From a review of the literature, the candidate has found that there is a limited amount of published research investigating and few culturally appropriate interventions addressing these issues, predominantly in the United States and Europe; no work appears to have been done to date in Sub-Saharan Africa. The candidate has been working as a research assistant on HIV care and treatment projects in Kinshasa for the last fifteen months, and already has made two visits to the site to work on the development of psychosocial support programs. The research proposal includes two phases: a cross-sectional survey of current disclosure patterns among pediatric patients at a Kinshasa pediatric hospital, and a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of an intervention providing psychosocial support to families wishing to disclose.

描述（由申请人提供）：候选人的论文研究是对影响人类免疫缺陷病毒（HIV）感染的行为和社会文化因素的探索干预措施解决了这些问题，主要在美国和欧洲；迄今为止，在撒哈拉以南非洲似乎没有做任何工作。在过去的15个月中，该候选人一直在金沙萨（Kinshasa）担任艾滋病毒护理和治疗项目的研究助理，并且已经对该网站进行了两次访问，以开发社会心理支持计划。该研究建议包括两个阶段：对金沙萨小儿医院的小儿患者当前披露模式的横断面调查，以及对希望披露的家庭的心理社会支持的干预措施进行定量和定性评估。