Latina Mothers' Coping Processes While Their Young Adult Sons Are Incarcerated

说明(由申请人提供)：该项目采用定性的方式进行调查，目的是探索和描述拉丁裔母亲在其年轻的成年儿子被监禁期间所采用的应对过程。洛杉矶县的家庭生活教育服务中心El Nido将招募20名低收入拉丁裔母亲作为样本，参加由一名双语、双文化公共卫生护士(研究PI)进行的开放式访谈。面试问题将针对不同类型的应对过程：情感(他们的感受)、认知(他们的想法)和行为(他们的所作所为)。此外，拉丁裔还将接受采访，了解他们用于应对的资源，包括个人、社会、文化和物质/物质。现场笔记将记录互动的想法、印象和观察。采访将被转录，保留南加州拉丁裔通常使用的代码转换(在英语和西班牙语之间转换)。数据收集和分析将在建构主义扎根理论和Atlas的指导下进行。将使用ti软件组织代码和备忘录。在初始编码过程中，数据将与数据进行比较，并将识别出在参与者陈述的简短、原始短语中浓缩大量含义的活体代码，这些短语提供了对特定含义或经验的洞察。重点编码将涉及最重要或最频繁的初始代码，这些代码将组合在一起形成分析类别。将对类别进行分析，以揭示类别中的子类别、维度和属性。在编码的最后一级，将进行理论编码，以确定类别之间可能的关系。这种定性方法的严谨性将通过使用研究者的反身性来增强，在这种方法中，研究者将在正在进行的备忘录中描述、分析和批评她自己的信念和偏见，以增加她对女性本身的解释重点。此外，还将生成审计记录，利用Atlas.ti使项目所有阶段的数据管理过程透明，包括：原始数据(访谈记录)、数据减少和分析、数据重建和综合、过程说明、意图和处置以及理论发展。 公共卫生相关性：这项研究的目的是通过了解拉丁裔母亲的经历，了解当她们年轻的成年儿子被拘留时，拉丁裔母亲是如何应对的。这位护士研究员将采访20名儿子被监禁的拉丁裔母亲，要求她们描述她们的感受(情绪)、她们的想法和想法(认知应对)以及她们做了什么和做了什么(行为应对)。护士研究员还将要求他们描述他们的社会生活和经济资源是如何因他们年幼的成年儿子S被监禁而受到影响的。这20次访谈将被记录下来，转录下来，然后非常仔细地研究，让护理模型了解应对过程。接受采访的女性将保持匿名，她们分享的信息将保密。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project involves a qualitative approach to inquiry with the purpose of exploration and description of the coping processes used by Latina mothers while their young adult sons have been incarcerated. A sample of twenty (20) low income Latina mothers will be recruited at El Nido, a family life education service center in Los Angeles County, to participate in open-ended interviews conducted by a bilingual, bicultural public health nurse (the study PI). The interview questions will target different types of coping processes: emotional (how they felt), cognitive (what they thought) and behavioral (what they did). Also, Latinas will be interviewed about the resources that they used for coping, including personal, social, cultural and physical/material. Field notes will be made to record thoughts, impressions, and observations of interactions. The interviews will be transcribed preserving the code-switching (shifting between English and Spanish) commonly use by Latinos in Southern California. Data collection and analysis will be guided by Constructivist Grounded Theory and Atlas.ti software will be used to organize codes and memos. During initial coding, data will be compared to data and in vivo codes that condense a great deal of meaning in short, original phrases stated by the participants that provide insight into specific meanings or experiences will be identified. Focused coding will involve the most significant or frequent initial codes which will group together to form analytic categories. Categories will be analyzed to uncover subcategories, dimensions and properties within the category. A final level of coding, theoretical coding will be done to identify possible relationships between the categories. Rigor will be enhanced in this qualitative method by use of researcher reflexivity in which the researcher will describe, analyze and critique her own beliefs and biases in ongoing memos to increase her interpretive focus on the women themselves. In addition, an audit trail will be generated, utilizing Atlas.ti to make the data management process transparent at all stages of the project, including: raw data (the interview transcriptions), data reduction and analysis, data reconstruction and synthesis, process notes, intentions and dispositions and theory development. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The purpose of this study is to understand how Latina mothers cope when their young adult son is taken into custody, by hearing about the experiences. The nurse researcher will interview 20 Latina mothers who have a son incarcerated and ask them to describe how they felt (emotion), what they thought and think (cognitive coping) and what they did and do (behavioral coping) to cope. The nurse researcher will also ask them to describe how their social lives and financial resources were affected by the incarceration of their young adult son/s. The 20 interviews will be recorded, transcribed and then studied very carefully to inform nursing models of the coping processes. The women who are interviewed will remain anonymous and what they share will be confidential.