Minority Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program

少数族裔博士前奖学金计划

• 批准号: 6984208
• 负责人: LARA M VAZ
• 金额: $ 2.4万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6984208
• 关键词: Africa; African; HIV infections; adolescence (12-20); caregivers; children; clinical research; culture; developmental psychology; health behavior; health disparity; human subject; middle childhood (6-11); pediatric AIDS; predoctoral investigator; preschool child (1-5); social behavior; social support network; socioenvironment

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The candidate's dissertation research is an exploration of the behavioral and sociocultural factors that influence the disclosure of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection to children living with HIV infection, and the efficacy of social support systems to support disclosure, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo From a review of the literature, the candidate has found that there is a limited amount of published research investigating and few culturally appropriate interventions addressing these issues, predominantly in the United States and Europe; no work appears to have been done to date in Sub-Saharan Africa. The candidate has been working as a research assistant on HIV care and treatment projects in Kinshasa for the last fifteen months, and already has made two visits to the site to work on the development of psychosocial support programs. The research proposal includes two phases: a cross-sectional survey of current disclosure patterns among pediatric patients at a Kinshasa pediatric hospital, and a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of an intervention providing psychosocial support to families wishing to disclose.

描述（由申请人提供）：候选人的论文研究探讨了影响向艾滋病毒感染儿童披露人类免疫缺陷病毒（HIV）感染情况的行为和社会文化因素，以及支持披露的社会支持系统的功效，刚果民主共和国金沙萨 通过对文献的回顾，候选人发现已发表的研究调查数量有限，而且解决这些问题的文化上适当的干预措施也很少，主要是在美国和欧洲；迄今为止，撒哈拉以南非洲地区似乎尚未开展任何工作。过去十五个月，该候选人一直在金沙萨担任艾滋病毒护理和治疗项目的研究助理，并已两次访问该地点，致力于制定社会心理支持计划。该研究提案包括两个阶段：对金沙萨儿科医院儿科患者当前的披露模式进行横断面调查，以及对向希望披露的家庭提供社会心理支持的干预措施进行定量和定性评估。