Religion, Aging, and Mexican American Health

宗教、老龄化和墨西哥裔美国人的健康

• 批准号: 7363710
• 负责人: Neal Krause
• 金额: $ 29.49万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-03-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7363710
• 关键词: Address; African American; Aging; Cognitive; Data; Depth; Elderly; Health; Interview; Life; Literature; Measures; Mexican Americans; Minority Groups; Numbers; Personal Satisfaction; Principal Investigator; Property; Psychometrics; Purpose; Qualitative Methods; Religion; Research; Series; Structure; Surveys; Work; design; racial difference

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A growing number of studies indicate that religion exerts a beneficial effect on health and well-being in late life. Moreover, this literature reveals that the salubrious effects of religion may be especially evident in racial minority groups. However, virtually all of this work has been conducted with older African Americans. Much less is known about the relationship between religion and health among older Mexican Americans. Part of the reason for this oversight arises from the fact that no one has developed a comprehensive set of religion indicators that are designed specifically for use with older Mexican Americans. The purpose of this study is to address this gap in the literature. In particular, the proposed research has the following objectives: 1.To conduct a series of qualitative studies (e.g., in-depth interviews and cognitive interviews) in order to identify the content domain of religion as it is lived by older Mexican Americans; 2. To use the data obtained from these qualitative methods to craft closed-ended survey items on religion; 3. To conduct a nationally-representative survey of older Mexican Americans in order to quantitatively evaluate the factor structure and psychometric properties of the newly devised religion measures; 4. To merge the quantitative data with a comparable nationwide survey that has already been conducted by the Principal Investigator to assess the relationship between religion and health in older Whites and older African Americans; and 5. To compare and contrast race differences in religiousness as well as race differences in the relationship between religion and health among older Whites, older Blacks, and older Mexican Americans.

描述（由申请人提供）：越来越多的研究表明，宗教对晚年的健康和福祉产生有益的影响。此外，这些文献表明，宗教的有益影响在少数民族群体中可能特别明显。然而，几乎所有这些工作都是在老年非裔美国人中进行的。对于墨西哥裔美国人的宗教信仰和健康之间的关系，人们知之甚少。这种疏忽的部分原因是，没有人制定一套专门为老年墨西哥裔美国人设计的全面的宗教指标。本研究的目的是解决文献中的这一差距。具体而言，拟议的研究有以下目标：1.进行一系列定性研究（例如，深入访谈和认知访谈），以确定宗教的内容域，因为它是由老年墨西哥裔美国人生活; 2。利用这些定性方法所得的数据，编制有关宗教的封闭式调查项目;对墨西哥裔美国老年人进行一项具有全国代表性的调查，以定量评估新设计的宗教措施的因素结构和心理测量特性;将定量数据与主要研究者已经进行的全国性可比调查合并，以评估老年白人和老年非裔美国人的宗教与健康之间的关系; 5.比较和对比宗教信仰的种族差异以及老年白人，老年黑人和老年墨西哥裔美国人之间宗教与健康关系的种族差异。