PREVENTION RESEARCH ON SOCIAL SUPPORT IN MINORITY GROUPS

社会支持经常被认为是一种调停 在压力和心理症状之间变化。结果, 操纵高危人群社会支持系统的干预措施 个人是一种常见的预防策略。作为…的前奏 项目开发，这项研究旨在： 1)说明自然支助的数额、类型和来源 提供给市中心患有慢性病儿童的母亲和 描述支持模式如何随着时间的推移而变化； 2)确定与提供支持相关的因素 对于母亲，特别是(A)应激源的强度(测量 根据儿童的功能丧失能力和护理水平 儿童需要)；(B)应激源的慢性(急性疾病与 (C)儿童中是否存在其他应激源 母亲的生活；(D)种族/伦理群体； 3)分析支持类型、数量和来源之间的关系 到母亲的心理症状学。 采用前瞻性纵向设计。超过五年的时间 期间，我们计划采访200名孩子是新生的母亲 诊断出患有慢性病，200人患有急病儿童 并在5个月和11个月后两次重新采访他们- 诊断。

Social supports has been frequently implicated as a mediating variable between stress and psychological symptoms. As a result, interventions manipulating social support systems of high-risk individuals are a common prevention strategy. As a prelude to program development, this study intends to: 1) describe the amounts, types and sources of natural support available to inner-city mothers of chronically ill children and to describe how patterns of support change over time; 2) to identify factors associated with the availability of support to mothers, specifically (a) the intensity of the stressor (measured by the functional incapacity of the child and level of care the child requires); (b) the chronicity of the stressor (acutely ill vs. chronically ill child); (c) presence of other stressors in the mother's life; (d) race/ethic group; 3) analyze how type, amount and sources of support are related to psychological symptomatology in mothers. A prospective longitudinal design is adopted. Over a five-year period we plan to interview 200 mothers whose children are newly diagnosed with a chronic illness and 200 with an acutely ill child and to reinterview them twice at 5 months and 11 months post- diagnosis.