AIDS Volunteerism and Client Health:Exploring Community

艾滋病志愿服务与客户健康：探索社区

• 批准号: 6409065
• 负责人: MARK SNYDER
• 金额: $ 35.34万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6409065
• 关键词: AIDS; AIDS education /prevention; behavioral /social science research tag; community; health care personnel performance; health care quality; human subject; patient care personnel attitude; patient oriented research; satisfaction; social cooperation; social perception; social psychology; social service; social support network; volunteer

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Throughout the HIV epidemic, volunteers and volunteer service organizations have played critical roles in caring for persons living with HIV and AIDS (PWAs) and in educating the public about HIV disease. The proposed research builds programmatically on and expands the scope of the research team's previous work on the social and psychological aspects of AIDS volunteerism to develop a theoretical conceptualization that embeds volunteer-PWA helping relationships in the broader context of the community of people affected by HIV. This conceptualization stresses the resources, social support, positive identification, and increases in efficacy that result from a strong psychological sense of community. The specific aims of the proposed collaborative research are to investigate the roles of psychological sense of community in: (1) optimizing the recruitment of new volunteers by AIDS service organizations (ASOs), (2) promoting the physical and psychological functioning of PWAs, and (3) increasing the satisfaction, effectiveness, and persistence of volunteers. Two large scale, coordinated, multi-site, field based intervention studies will systematically address these aims. In the first intervention study, potential AIDS volunteers will receive either a standard recruitment message or one that makes salient the community context and connection of volunteering. It is hypothesized that the community message will effectively promote AIDS volunteerism, as measured by attitudes, intentions, and actual volunteer behavior, especially among individuals who have previously shown a propensity to support the ASO through participation in a fundraising walk. In a second linked intervention study of an experimental client service program, pairs of volunteers and client PWAs in ASOs will be randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) a standard treatment control condition, (2) a 6-month structured intervention designed to build a psychological sense of community, or (3) a 6-month attention control condition. Measures of the psychological and physical functioning of client PWAs and of the attitudes and performance of volunteers are expected to demonstrate the immediate and long-term effects of the community intervention. This multi-level collaborative approach -- examining AIDS volunteerism at the level of individual volunteers and PWAs as well as in the context of organizations, social networks, and community -- has the potential to increase theoretical understanding of voluntary helping relationships and psychological sense of community. The research also has the potential to contribute to the practically important issues of enhancing the effectiveness of volunteer recruitment programs, promoting the psychological and physical health of PWAs, and increasing the satisfaction and effectiveness of volunteers.

描述（由申请人提供）：在整个艾滋病毒流行期间，志愿者 志愿者服务组织在关爱方面发挥了重要作用 艾滋病毒感染者和艾滋病患者 (PWA) 以及对公众进行艾滋病毒教育 疾病。拟议的研究以编程方式建立并扩展了范围 研究小组之前在社会和心理方面的工作 艾滋病志愿服务发展了一个理论概念化，其中包含 志愿者-PWA 在更广泛的社区背景下帮助建立关系 受艾滋病毒影响的人。这一概念强调资源、社会 支持、积极的识别和效率的提高 强烈的心理社区意识。拟议的具体目标 合作研究的目的是调查心理感觉的作用 社区：（1）优化艾滋病服务新志愿者招募 组织（ASO），（2）促进身心功能 (3) 提高 PWA 的满意度、有效性和持久性 志愿者。两次大规模、协调、多地点、实地干预 研究将系统地解决这些目标。在第一次干预中 研究中，潜在的艾滋病志愿者将接受标准招募 信息或突出社区背景和联系的信息 志愿服务。假设社区信息将有效 促进艾滋病志愿服务，通过态度、意图和实际情况来衡量 志愿者行为，尤其是那些以前表现出志愿者行为的人 通过参加筹款活动来支持 ASO 的倾向。在一个 实验性客户服务计划的第二项关联干预研究， ASO 中的一对志愿者和客户 PWA 将被随机分配给其中一个 三个条件：(1) 标准治疗对照条件，(2) 6 个月 旨在建立社区心理意识的结构化干预， (3) 6个月的注意力控制条件。心理和心理测量 客户 PWA 的身体功能以及客户的态度和表现 志愿者应展示其直接和长期的影响 社区干预。这种多层次的协作方法—— 在个体志愿者和 PWA 层面检查艾滋病志愿服务 以及在组织、社交网络和社区的背景下—— 增加对志愿帮助的理论理解的潜力 人际关系和社区心理意识。该研究还具有 为解决加强实际重要问题作出贡献的潜力 志愿者招募计划的有效性，促进心理 和 PWA 的身体健康，并提高满意度和有效性 的志愿者。