Latina Mothers' Coping Processes While Their Young Adult Sons Are Incarcerated

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目涉及一种定性的调查方法，目的是探索和描述拉丁裔母亲在其年轻成年儿子被监禁时所使用的应对过程。洛杉矶县的家庭生活教育服务中心爱妮岛将招募20名低收入拉丁裔母亲，参加由双语、双文化公共卫生护士（研究PI）进行的开放式访谈。面试问题将针对不同类型的应对过程：情感（他们的感受），认知（他们的想法）和行为（他们做了什么）。此外，拉丁美洲人将接受采访，了解他们用于应对的资源，包括个人，社会，文化和物理/物质。现场笔记将记录思想、印象和对互动的观察。访谈记录将保留南加州拉丁裔人常用的代码转换（英语和西班牙语之间的转换）。数据收集和分析将以建构主义扎根理论和图集为指导。Ti软件将用于组织代码和备忘录。在初始编码过程中，将数据与数据和体内编码进行比较，这些编码将大量的意义浓缩在参与者陈述的简短的原始短语中，这些短语将提供对特定意义或经验的见解。集中编码将包括最重要或最频繁的初始代码，这些代码将组合在一起形成分析类别。将对类别进行分析，以发现类别中的子类别、维度和属性。编码的最后一个层次，理论编码将被用来确定类别之间可能的关系。这种定性方法的严谨性将通过使用研究人员的反身性得到增强，研究人员将在正在进行的备忘录中描述、分析和批评她自己的信仰和偏见，以增加她对女性本身的解释重点。此外，将利用Atlas生成审计跟踪。使项目各个阶段的数据管理过程透明，包括：原始数据（访谈记录）、数据简化和分析、数据重建和综合、过程注释、意图和倾向以及理论发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project involves a qualitative approach to inquiry with the purpose of exploration and description of the coping processes used by Latina mothers while their young adult sons have been incarcerated. A sample of twenty (20) low income Latina mothers will be recruited at El Nido, a family life education service center in Los Angeles County, to participate in open-ended interviews conducted by a bilingual, bicultural public health nurse (the study PI). The interview questions will target different types of coping processes: emotional (how they felt), cognitive (what they thought) and behavioral (what they did). Also, Latinas will be interviewed about the resources that they used for coping, including personal, social, cultural and physical/material. Field notes will be made to record thoughts, impressions, and observations of interactions. The interviews will be transcribed preserving the code-switching (shifting between English and Spanish) commonly use by Latinos in Southern California. Data collection and analysis will be guided by Constructivist Grounded Theory and Atlas.ti software will be used to organize codes and memos. During initial coding, data will be compared to data and in vivo codes that condense a great deal of meaning in short, original phrases stated by the participants that provide insight into specific meanings or experiences will be identified. Focused coding will involve the most significant or frequent initial codes which will group together to form analytic categories. Categories will be analyzed to uncover subcategories, dimensions and properties within the category. A final level of coding, theoretical coding will be done to identify possible relationships between the categories. Rigor will be enhanced in this qualitative method by use of researcher reflexivity in which the researcher will describe, analyze and critique her own beliefs and biases in ongoing memos to increase her interpretive focus on the women themselves. In addition, an audit trail will be generated, utilizing Atlas.ti to make the data management process transparent at all stages of the project, including: raw data (the interview transcriptions), data reduction and analysis, data reconstruction and synthesis, process notes, intentions and dispositions and theory development.