AIDS Volunteerism and Client Health:Exploring Community

描述（由申请人提供）：在整个艾滋病毒流行期间，志愿者 志愿者服务组织在照顾 艾滋病毒感染者和艾滋病患者以及对公众进行艾滋病毒教育的作用 疾病拟议的研究以编程方式建立在并扩大了范围 研究小组以前在社会和心理方面的工作， 艾滋病志愿服务发展的理论概念， 志愿者-PWA在更广泛的社区背景下帮助关系， 受艾滋病毒影响的人。这种概念化强调资源、社会 支持，积极的识别，并提高效率，结果是 强烈的心理社区意识。建议的具体目标 合作研究是调查心理感觉的作用， 社区在：（1）优化艾滋病服务新志愿者招募 （2）促进身体和心理功能 （3）提高满意度，有效性和持久性 志愿者两个大规模、协调、多地点、实地干预 研究将系统地探讨这些目标。在第一次干预中， 在这项研究中，潜在的艾滋病志愿者将接受标准的招募， 消息或一个突出的社区背景和连接的 志愿服务据推测，社区信息将有效地 促进艾滋病志愿服务，通过态度、意图和实际 志愿者行为，特别是那些以前表现出 倾向于通过参与筹款步行来支持阿索。中 第二个实验性客户服务项目的关联干预研究， 在ASO中，成对的志愿者和客户PWA将被随机分配到其中一个 三种条件：（1）标准治疗对照条件，（2）6个月 旨在建立社区心理感的结构化干预， 或（3）6个月的注意力控制条件。对心理和 客户PWA的身体功能以及客户PWA的态度和表现 志愿者被期望展示的直接和长期的影响， 社区干预。这种多层次的合作方式-- 从个人志愿者和艾滋病患者的层面研究艾滋病志愿服务， 以及在组织、社交网络和社区的背景下， 增加对自愿帮助的理论理解的潜力 人际关系和社区心理感。该研究还发现， 促进解决加强联合国系统 志愿者招募计划的有效性，促进心理 和身体健康，并提高满意度和有效性 的志愿者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Throughout the HIV epidemic, volunteers and volunteer service organizations have played critical roles in caring for persons living with HIV and AIDS (PWAs) and in educating the public about HIV disease. The proposed research builds programmatically on and expands the scope of the research team's previous work on the social and psychological aspects of AIDS volunteerism to develop a theoretical conceptualization that embeds volunteer-PWA helping relationships in the broader context of the community of people affected by HIV. This conceptualization stresses the resources, social support, positive identification, and increases in efficacy that result from a strong psychological sense of community. The specific aims of the proposed collaborative research are to investigate the roles of psychological sense of community in: (1) optimizing the recruitment of new volunteers by AIDS service organizations (ASOs), (2) promoting the physical and psychological functioning of PWAs, and (3) increasing the satisfaction, effectiveness, and persistence of volunteers. Two large scale, coordinated, multi-site, field based intervention studies will systematically address these aims. In the first intervention study, potential AIDS volunteers will receive either a standard recruitment message or one that makes salient the community context and connection of volunteering. It is hypothesized that the community message will effectively promote AIDS volunteerism, as measured by attitudes, intentions, and actual volunteer behavior, especially among individuals who have previously shown a propensity to support the ASO through participation in a fundraising walk. In a second linked intervention study of an experimental client service program, pairs of volunteers and client PWAs in ASOs will be randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) a standard treatment control condition, (2) a 6-month structured intervention designed to build a psychological sense of community, or (3) a 6-month attention control condition. Measures of the psychological and physical functioning of client PWAs and of the attitudes and performance of volunteers are expected to demonstrate the immediate and long-term effects of the community intervention. This multi-level collaborative approach -- examining AIDS volunteerism at the level of individual volunteers and PWAs as well as in the context of organizations, social networks, and community -- has the potential to increase theoretical understanding of voluntary helping relationships and psychological sense of community. The research also has the potential to contribute to the practically important issues of enhancing the effectiveness of volunteer recruitment programs, promoting the psychological and physical health of PWAs, and increasing the satisfaction and effectiveness of volunteers.