BEREAVEMENT IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND APPALACHIAN ELDERS

非裔美国人和阿巴拉契亚长者的丧亲之痛

• 批准号: 2053931
• 负责人: RICHARD H STEEVES
• 金额: $ 13.85万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-08-01 至 1997-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2053931
• 关键词: African American; aging; bereavement; caucasian American; culture; data collection methodology /evaluation; human data; low socioeconomic status; nursing intervention; rural area; social support network; spouses; technology /technique development

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted from applicant's abstract) This application seeks support to add to the understanding of the experiences of elderly, bereaved spouses of African American and Traditional Appalachian heritage in the rural south. This ethnographic study is aimed at gaining knowledge about the traditional ways in which members of these undeserved and poorly studied cultural groups deal with bereavement. During this three-year study, data will be gathered from approximately 18 informants. The informants will be identified through a hospice program. The investigator as a volunteer for the hospice, will gather data in the informants' homes and communities using participant observation techniques.Hospice volunteers often become quite close to the families they help. Volunteers are involved in the physical care of the dying person and help with domestic chores such as shopping and cleaning and maintaining the home. After the death, volunteers attend the funeral, wake, or other mourning rituals and often become an emotional support person for the bereaved.Because of this intensive and extended (contact with informants will be maintained for up to two years) data collection, considerable knowledge should be generated concerning bereavement (the time it takes to recover from loss), grief (the emotions of bereavement), and mourning (the rituals of bereavement). Data in the form of field notes and transcribed interviews will be treated as texts and will be subjected to a hermeneutic analysis. In this multi-step process of interpretation and categorization of data, the texts will be examined in detail and the most significant or exemplary datum will be identified and organized into the themes that characterize the bereavement of these informants. This research, which will describe the traditional methods used by these two cultures for dealing with bereavement, is the first step in a program of research that will eventually: (a) identify those characteristics of person and environment that make people vulnerable because they inhibit traditional methods of handling bereavement from being successful, and (b) will design and test nursing interventions for these vulnerable people.

描述：（改编自申请人的摘要）本申请寻求 支持增加对老年人经历的理解， 非裔美国人和传统阿巴拉契亚人的失去亲人的配偶 南方乡村的遗产。 这项民族志研究的目的是 了解这些成员的传统方式 不值得的和缺乏研究的文化群体处理丧亲之痛。 在这项为期三年的研究中，数据将来自大约 18名举报人。 举报人将通过临终关怀机构进行识别 程序。 调查员作为临终关怀中心的志愿者，将收集 使用参与者在线人家中和社区中获取的数据 观察技巧。临终关怀志愿者经常变得非常接近 他们帮助的家庭。 志愿者参与身体护理 照顾临终者并帮助做家务，例如购物和 清洁和维护房屋。 死者去世后，志愿者参加 葬礼、守灵或其他哀悼仪式，通常成为 为死者家属提供情感支持的人。因为这种密集和 延长（与举报人的联系将保持最多两 年）数据收集，应该产生大量知识 关于丧亲之痛（从失去中恢复过来所需的时间）、悲伤 （丧亲之痛的情绪）和哀悼（丧葬仪式） 丧亲之痛）。 现场笔记形式的数据并转录 访谈将被视为文本，并将受到 解释学分析。 在这个多步骤的解释和过程中 数据分类，文本将被详细检查， 将确定和组织最重要或示范性的数据 深入了解这些线人的丧亲之痛的主题。 这项研究将描述这些人使用的传统方法 处理丧亲之痛的两种文化是解决丧亲之痛的第一步 研究计划最终将：(a) 确定那些 使人们变得脆弱的人和环境的特征 因为它们阻碍了处理丧亲之痛的传统方法 成功，并且 (b) 将设计和测试护理干预措施 这些弱势群体。