Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Pathways Toward Understanding the Psychosocial Dimensions of Reproductive Health

博士论文研究改进补助金：理解生殖健康心理社会维度的途径

基本信息

批准号：
1023791
负责人：
Carol Worthman
金额：
$ 1.95万
依托单位：
Emory University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2010-09-01 至 2012-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1023791&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant

项目摘要

Emory University doctoral student, Tyralynn Frazier, supervised by Dr. Carol Worthman, will undertake research on the relative influence of race, culture, economic status, and place of residence on reproductive health outcomes. The researcher will simultaneously focus on both race and place by investigating if similarities and differences in localized pregnancy ideas are shaped by racial and socioeconomic belonging.The research will be carried out among a population-based sample of women living in a county in the state of Georgia. The researcher will employ cultural consensus modeling first, to see if cultural models of pregnancy behaviors differ by race, and second to determine if relative consonance with locally accepted pregnancy models predicts stress levels and pre-term births. Race is a frequently used, but often under-theorized category. Using domain analysis methods and cultural consensus modeling, this study aims to put race as an assumed cultural grouping into question in the context of pregnancy behaviors. This research is important because by emphasizing culturally defined influences on reproductive health behaviors it may contribute to understanding negative birth outcome patterns that are not fully explained by demographic factors or socioeconomic status. If the hypotheses presented hold true then a broader implication of this work would be to understand how the emergence of new pregnancy beliefs and behaviors may produce generational differences in reproductive health disparities in immigrant populations in the United States and other industrialized countries.

由Carol Worthman博士监督的埃默里大学博士生Tyralynn Frazier将对种族，文化，经济地位和居住地对生殖健康结果的相对影响进行研究。研究人员将通过调查种族和社会经济归属的局部怀孕思想的相似性和差异来同时关注种族和地点。该研究将在乔治亚州一个县的基于人群的妇女样本中进行。研究人员将首先采用文化共识建模，以查看妊娠行为的文化模型是否因种族而有所不同，其次是确定与本地接受的怀孕模型相对辅音是否可以预测压力水平和预期出生。种族是一种经常使用的，但通常是不足的类别。使用领域分析方法和文化共识建模，本研究旨在将种族作为一种假定的文化群体在怀孕行为的背景下陷入质疑。这项研究很重要，因为通过强调对生殖健康行为的文化定义影响，它可能有助于理解负面的出生结果模式，而这些模式并未完全由人口统计学因素或社会经济地位完全解释。如果提出的假设是正确的，那么这项工作的更广泛的含义是了解新怀孕信念和行为的出现如何在美国和其他工业化国家的移民人口中产生世代相传的生殖健康差异。