US-Bangladesh Cooperative Research: Health-Seeking Behavior of Arsenic Patients in Rural Bangladesh

0110174 Paul描述：这个奖项是为了支持Bennik教授的合作项目。Paul，堪萨斯州立大学地理系，曼哈顿，堪萨斯和Shahanaz Huq-Hussain教授，地理和环境系，达卡大学，达卡，孟加拉国。 两人计划解决由于受污染的管井水造成的砷中毒问题，以及孟加拉国村民对中毒事件的反应方式和他们如何寻求卫生服务。 这项研究旨在提供有关砷患者如何看待他们的疾病，他们如何在医疗保健利用方面做出反应以及是什么决定了他们的健康寻求行为的信息。 这些信息是为了提高治疗的依从性，并提供宝贵的见解，为未来的行动计划，以打击砷的问题在孟加拉国及时mart.Scope：在这个项目中的合作者计划联合收割机结合他们的专业知识，在分析和实地研究，包括实地调查和采访，参与观察，焦点小组讨论，收集本研究的主要数据。 他们将聘请来自孟加拉国的合格研究生进行实地面试。 来自堪萨斯州立大学的一名研究生将与Paul博士一起使用定性和定量方法分析现场数据。 调查结果将尽早分发，以帮助决策者和其他参与处理孟加拉国砷问题的人。 该项目得到了国际项目司和行为与认知科学司的支持。

0110174Paul Description: This award is for support of a cooperative project by Professor Bimal K. Paul, Department of Geography, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas and Professor Shahanaz Huq-Hussain, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The two plan to address the problem of arsenic poisoning due to contaminated tubewell water and the way villagers in Bangladesh respond to the incidence of poisoning and how they seek health services. The research is to provide information about how arsenic patients perceive their illness, how they respond in terms of health care utilization, and what determines their health-seeking behavior. The information is intended to improve treatment compliance and offer valuable insights for future action plans to combat the arsenic problem in Bangladesh in a timely manner.Scope: In this project the collaborators plan to combine their expertise in analytical and field studies, including field surveys and interviews, participation observation, and focus group discussions to collect primary data for this research. They will employ qualified graduate students from Bangladesh to conduct the field interviews. One graduate student from Kansas State University will work with Dr. Paul using qualitative and quantitative approaches to analyze field data. The results will be disseminated as early as possible to help policy makers and others engaged in dealing with the arsenic problem in Bangladesh. This project is supported by the Division of International Programs and the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.