AMERICAN MUSLIM CULTURE--ABUSE, WOMEN, AND HEALTH

这项拟议的研究将考察美国穆斯林的生活经历。 妇女在情感、身体和性虐待方面的发生率。 人们对美国快速增长的穆斯林人口知之甚少 来自这一人口的州和妇女可能会增加 有被滥用的风险。因此，拟议研究的具体目标是 1)描述美国穆斯林妇女遭受虐待的生活经历， 2)找出塑造美国人的特定文化因素 穆斯林妇女通过获得 更好地了解他们生活的伊斯兰文化体系。 改善受虐待少数民族妇女及其健康状况 儿童依赖于健康研究，为护士提供 他们需要有效干预的信息，同时 消除护理障碍。这需要了解中国的文化。 被虐待的女性生活的地方。为这种情景提供了一个模型， 基于文化的虐待研究是该项目的长期目标 在学习方面。非结构化的解释现象学方法 访谈技术将为以下方面提供研究设计和方法 这个型号。这种方法论的方法已经被证明产生了 丰富的上下文数据，反映了 它是派生出来的。最后，这个学习计划是一个 调查美国人健康需求的健康研究计划 穆斯林人口和少数民族虐待妇女。最终，人们希望 研究结果有助于改善这些患者的护理服务 组。

The proposed study will examine the lived experiences of American Muslim women with regard to incidence of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Little is known about the rapidly growing Muslim population in the United States and women from this population are likely to be at an increased risk for abuse. Therefore, the specific aims for the proposed research are: 1) to describe American Muslim women's lived experiences with abuse, and 2) to identify culturally specific factors which shape American Muslim women's experiences and perceptions of abuse by obtaining a greater understanding of the Islamic cultural system in which they live. The improvement of health outcomes for abused minority women and their children is dependent upon health research that provides nurses the information they need to effectively intervene while simultaneously removing barriers to care. This requires knowledge of the cultures in which abused women live. Providing a model for this kind of contextual, culturally based abuse research is a long term objective for this program of study. The interpretive phenomenological method using unstructured interviewing techniques will provide the research design and method for this model. This methodological approach has been demonstrated to produce rich contextual data that is reflective of the cultural system from which it is derived. Finally, this program of study is the beginning of a program of health research investigating the health needs of the American Muslim population and minority abused women. Ultimately, it is hoped that research findings can contribute to improved care delivery for these groups.