Roles, Aging & Health among African American Women

角色、老龄化

基本信息

批准号：
7008646
负责人：
MARGARET E. ENSMINGER
金额：
$ 33.47万
依托单位：
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2006-02-15 至 2010-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Using longitudinal data, the proposed study will investigate the direct and indirect effects of continuing and evolving family, social, and economic conditions on physical and psychological well-being in a cohort of African American women originally recruited in 1966 when their children were first graders. The data come from a community epidemiological study of children and their families initiated in the 1960s in Woodlawn, a poor African American community on the south side of Chicago. The children and their mothers were followed over time, and the proposed study focuses on the mothers (n=1136). The women were interviewed at three time points over 25 years: 1967, when their children were in first grade (median age of 30); 1975, when their children were adolescents; and 1997, when their children were adults. In 1997, 1008 (89%) of the original cohort of women were located, and their ages ranged from 49 to 79 with a median age of 60. Most of the women were past the traditional childrearing stage of life and were approaching or had made the transition to retirement. They reported a wide array of physical and psychological health conditions as well as a number of functional limitations and other disabilities. Our conceptual framework is based on a life course developmental perspective that focuses on roles within major social fields across the life course. The focus of the proposed study is to delineate the patterns of roles across the major social fields of family, work, and community, and to identify the pathways from these roles in early (median age 31, 1967) and mid adulthood (median age 39, 1975), to physical and psychological well being in later life (median age 61, 1997). The proposed research will require several different analytic approaches. We will begin with exploratory analyses to describe univariate distributions then we will conduct bivariate analyses to assess relationships among the variables. Our multivariate techniques will include regression analysis, survival analysis, transition analysis (latent class and latent transitional modeling), structural equation modeling, latent variable mixture modeling, and generalized estimating equations (GEE). We will study how family, work, and community in early and mid adulthood influence health of older women. Little is known about family and social influences on later health. This study will provide knowledge about African American women, an understudied group.

描述（由申请人提供）：使用纵向数据，拟议的研究将调查持续和不断发展的家庭，社会和经济状况对最初于1966年招募的非裔美国人妇女的身体和心理健康的直接和间接影响，当时他们的孩子是一年级的。数据来自于1960年代在伍德劳恩（Woodlawn）发起的儿童及其家人的社区流行病学研究，伍德劳恩（Woodlawn）是芝加哥南侧的一个贫穷的非裔美国人社区。随着时间的流逝，儿童及其母亲受到追随，拟议的研究集中于母亲（n = 1136）。这些妇女在25年中的三个时间点接受采访：1967年，当时她们的孩子在一年级（中位年龄30岁）； 1975年，他们的孩子是青少年。 1997年，他们的孩子是成年人。 1997年，最初的妇女队列中有1008名（89％）的年龄在49至79岁之间，中位年龄为60岁。大多数妇女都超越了传统的育儿阶段，并且已经接近或已经过渡到退休。他们报告了各种各样的身体和心理健康状况以及许多功能限制和其他残疾。我们的概念框架是基于生命过程的发展观点，该观点重点介绍了整个生活过程中主要社会领域的角色。拟议的研究的重点是描述家庭，工作和社区主要社会领域的角色模式，并确定早期（中位年龄31，1967）和成年期（中位年龄39，1975）的途径，到后来的身体和心理健康（61，1997）。拟议的研究将需要几种不同的分析方法。我们将从探索性分析开始以描述单变量分布，然后进行双变量分析以评估变量之间的关系。我们的多元技术将包括回归分析，生存分析，过渡分析（潜在类和潜在过渡模型），结构方程建模，潜在可变混合物建模和广义估计方程（GEE）。我们将研究成年早期和中期的家庭，工作和社区如何影响老年妇女的健康。关于家庭和社会影响对以后健康的影响知之甚少。这项研究将提供有关非裔美国妇女的知识，这是一个研究的群体。