Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Altruism in the Face of Stigmatization: Volunteering to Provide Home-Based Care for People Living with AIDS in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

博士论文改进补助金：面对耻辱的利他主义：志愿为埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴的艾滋病患者提供家庭护理

• 批准号: 0752966
• 负责人: Peter Brown
• 金额: $ 1.32万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 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: 2008-03-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0752966&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Altruism

Graduate student Kenneth C. Maes, working under the supervision of Dr. Peter J. Brown, will study the relationship between altruistic, self-interested, and religious motivations of volunteer HIV/AIDS caregivers and their mental health over the course of their work in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Volunteerism in community health care has grown substantially over the past decade in Africa. In Addis Ababa, hundreds of poor, non-kin caregivers are volunteering with home-based HIV/AIDS care programs, in cooperation with the government health system. The findings of this research will apply to building cross-cultural theory about cognitive and cultural understandings of human altruism, relationships, and mental health. The immediate research objectives of this project are: (1) to document volunteer caregiver descriptions of the motivations, costs, and rewards involved in volunteering, and (2) to understand how holding and valuing different motivations amidst varying experiences of poverty and food insecurity influence care relationships with close patients and caregivers' own mental health over time. Objective 1 will be accomplished with ethnographic and cognitive methods over the course of 24 months. Objective 2 will be accomplished by carrying out an 18-month longitudinal survey of the motivational, socioeconomic and mental health aspects of volunteer home-based caregiving. Innovative and locally validated data collection methods will reveal and allow interpretation of the directional effects among cognitive (motivational), social (caregiver-patient relationships) and health-related variables. This project is important because it will generate knowledge useful to public health programs in Africa that are facing a serious lack of human resources. Parallel research at the same site (ALERT Hospital ART clinic), conducted by members of Addis Ababa University's Department of Community Health, will involve a longitudinal analysis of patient survival and morbidity. The results of this project will be of interest to bio-cultural anthropologists, health practitioners, and population health policy makers. This project will also bolster collaborative research and teaching relationships between Emory University and Addis Ababa University, and contribute to the education of an American graduate student.

研究生 Kenneth C. Maes 在 Peter J. Brown 博士的指导下，将研究艾滋病毒/艾滋病志愿者护理人员的利他、自利和宗教动机与他们在工作过程中的心理健康之间的关系。埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴。 过去十年来，非洲社区卫生保健领域的志愿服务大幅增长。 在亚的斯亚贝巴，数百名贫困的非亲属护理人员正在与政府卫生系统合作，志愿参与家庭艾滋病毒/艾滋病护理项目。这项研究的结果将应用于建立关于人类利他主义、人际关系和心理健康的认知和文化理解的跨文化理论。该项目的近期研究目标是：(1) 记录志愿者护理人员对志愿服务所涉及的动机、成本和奖励的描述，以及 (2) 了解在不同的贫困和粮食不安全经历中持有和重视不同动机的影响随着时间的推移，与亲密患者的护理关系以及护理人员自身的心理健康状况。目标 1 将通过人种学和认知方法在 24 个月的时间内完成。目标 2 将通过对志愿者家庭护理的动机、社会经济和心理健康方面进行为期 18 个月的纵向调查来实现。 创新且经过本地验证的数据收集方法将揭示并解释认知（动机）、社会（护理者与患者关系）和健康相关变量之间的方向性影响。 该项目很重要，因为它将产生对面临人力资源严重缺乏的非洲公共卫生项目有用的知识。 由亚的斯亚贝巴大学社区卫生系成员在同一地点（ALERT 医院 ART 诊所）进行的并行研究将涉及对患者生存和发病率的纵向分析。该项目的结果将引起生物文化人类学家、健康从业者和人口健康政策制定者的兴趣。 该项目还将加强埃默里大学和亚的斯亚贝巴大学之间的合作研究和教学关系，并为美国研究生的教育做出贡献。