Minority Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program

描述(由申请人提供)：候选人的论文研究是对影响向感染艾滋病毒的儿童披露人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)感染的行为和社会文化因素，以及社会支持系统支持披露的有效性的探索。在刚果民主共和国金沙萨，候选人在回顾文献时发现，研究这些问题的已发表研究数量有限，解决这些问题的文化适当干预措施很少，主要是在美国和欧洲；撒哈拉以南非洲地区迄今似乎没有任何工作。在过去的15个月里，这位候选人一直在金沙萨担任艾滋病毒护理和治疗项目的研究助理，并已经两次访问该网站，致力于制定心理社会支持计划。研究建议包括两个阶段：对金沙萨一家儿科医院的儿科患者目前的披露模式进行横断面调查，以及对向希望披露的家庭提供心理社会支持的干预措施进行定量和定性评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The candidate's dissertation research is an exploration of the behavioral and sociocultural factors that influence the disclosure of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection to children living with HIV infection, and the efficacy of social support systems to support disclosure, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo From a review of the literature, the candidate has found that there is a limited amount of published research investigating and few culturally appropriate interventions addressing these issues, predominantly in the United States and Europe; no work appears to have been done to date in Sub-Saharan Africa. The candidate has been working as a research assistant on HIV care and treatment projects in Kinshasa for the last fifteen months, and already has made two visits to the site to work on the development of psychosocial support programs. The research proposal includes two phases: a cross-sectional survey of current disclosure patterns among pediatric patients at a Kinshasa pediatric hospital, and a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of an intervention providing psychosocial support to families wishing to disclose.