Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Supplementary Feeding and the Perception of Benefits in Malaysian Borneo

博士论文改进补助金：马来西亚婆罗洲的补充喂养和效益认知

• 批准号: 0751828
• 负责人: Linda Whiteford
• 金额: $ 1.22万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-01 至 2009-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0751828&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Supplementary

University of South Florida graduate student, Elizabeth Elliott Cooper, working under the supervision of Dr. Linda M. Whiteford, will undertake research on the puzzling popularity of a supplementary feeding program in Malaysia. The program exhibits no clear efficacy in terms of anthropometric improvement, which is the standard outcome measure. Nevertheless, the program continues and, apparently, remains popular, which prompts questions of how analysts should conceptualize and measure the benefits of any development intervention. Cooper will focus her research on two coastal villages in Malaysian Borneo and investigate the possibility that there are cultural models for program benefits, other than those used by health professionals. She will contextualize these models in community conditions, food beliefs, and practices. Her goals are two-fold: to understand the implications of conflicting evaluation standards for the health and well being of rural populations; and to test a unique combination of social science methodologies as a way of better theorizing the complex relationship between cultural beliefs and practices.The methodologies Cooper will use include combining nutritional assessment (child anthropometry and household food security), exploratory interviews, free-recall listing, pile sorting tasks, and participant observation. She will validate these results with a structured survey. In addition, she will compare the results of cultural consensus analysis, which looks at cultural variability, along with variability produced by standardized visual tests, with the results of basic inferential statistics (t-tests, chi-square, ANOVA, MANOVA, and multiple regression).Cooper's research is innovative in how it combines structural and cognitive research. Existing social research in nutrition focuses on either power-related variables (economic, material and political factors) or belief-related variables (psychological, cultural and attitudinal factors). Cooper's multi-faceted ethnographic approach is more holistic, taking into account household economic constraints and actor power differentials as well as beliefs. The research will contribute to expanded use of cognitive methods in nutritional research and add to social science theory on how disjunctions in human belief systems impact human practicies and activities. The research also will contribute to the education of a graduate student.

南佛罗里达大学的研究生伊丽莎白·埃利奥特·库珀（Elizabeth Elliott Cooper）在琳达·M·怀特福德（Linda M. Whiteford）博士的监督下工作，将对马来西亚补充喂养计划的令人困惑的流行进行研究。该计划在人体测量学改进方面没有明确的疗效，这是标准的结果指标。尽管如此，该计划仍在继续，显然仍然很受欢迎，这引发了有关分析师应如何概念化和衡量任何开发干预益处的问题。库珀将把她的研究重点放在马来西亚婆罗洲的两个沿海村庄上，并调查除了卫生专业人员使用的文化模型以外的文化模型。她将在社区条件，粮食信念和实践中将这些模型置于情境中。她的目标是两个方面：了解矛盾的评估标准对健康和乡村人口的福祉的含义；并测试社会科学方法论的独特组合，以更好地理论化文化信念和实践之间的复杂关系。 ，桩分类任务和参与者观察。她将通过结构化调查来验证这些结果。此外，她将比较文化共识分析的结果，该分析研究了文化可变性，以及标准视觉测试产生的可变性，以及基本推论统计的结果（t检验，Chi-square，Anova，Manova和多个多重的统计数据回归）。库普的研究在结合结构和认知研究方面具有创新性。营养中现有的社会研究集中于与电力相关的变量（经济，物质和政治因素）或与信仰有关的变量（心理，文化和态度因素）。 考虑到家庭经济的限制和参与者的权力差异和信念，库珀的多面人种学方法更加全面。 这项研究将有助于扩大营养研究中认知方法的使用，并将社会科学理论扩大到有关人类信念系统中的析取如何影响人类实践和活动的社会科学理论。 这项研究还将为研究生的教育做出贡献。