An Ethnographic Study of African-Caribbean Women with Schizophrenia in England

英国患有精神分裂症的非洲裔加勒比妇女的人种学研究

基本信息

批准号：
7588014
负责人：
JOHANNE ELIACIN
金额：
$ 3.76万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2008
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2008-03-21 至 2010-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7588014
关键词：
Address Affect African Caribbean Area Biological Biological Factors Biological Process Biomedical Research British Caribbean region Child Child Rearing Color Communities Complement Data Development Diagnosis Disease susceptibility Economics England Environment Environmental Risk Factor Epidemiologic Studies Epidemiology Ethnography Event Family Female Generations Genes Genetic Predisposition to Disease Health Professional High Prevalence Immigrant Immigration Incidence Individual Intervention Investigation Lead Life Life Cycle Stages Life Experience London Maps Mental Health Mind Modeling Participant Play Policy Maker Population Process Psychotic Disorders Public Policy Qualitative Research Recruitment Activity Reporting Reproduction Research Research Methodology Research Personnel Resources Risk Factors Role Schizophrenia Shapes Social Change Social Environment Stress Symptoms Time Walkers West Indies Woman Work Writing coping emotional distress emotional experience environmental stressor ethnic minority population experience health disparity high risk intervention program men migration neglect psychologic psychosocial research study social stressor theories treatment program

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project is an ethnographic investigation of lived experiences of UK African-Caribbean women, with and without schizophrenia, to illuminate the socio-cultural mechanisms and processes that contribute to their high prevalence of the illness. Over the past twenty years, epidemiological studies have reported consistently that individuals of Caribbean origin in England have the highest rate of schizophrenia ever recorded anywhere ((Littlewood, 2001). Research data suggest that the increased rates of schizophrenia in this population are not due to genetic vulnerability or biological factors but to environmental stress and other social risk factors that are not yet fully understood. Using ethnographic research methods, the researcher will explore how UK African-Caribbeans' subjective experiences of their social worlds shape their sense of self, their emotional experiences, and the ways they experience and cope with stress. Building on existing epidemiological findings, she will conduct a micro-analysis of identified risk factors to better understand how they play out in individuals' daily life and generate specific hypotheses about how the social environment may lead to greater vulnerability to schizophrenia. She will also focus on African-Caribbean women, a population that is largely neglected in schizophrenia research in England. This ethnographic work will complement the epidemiological studies by providing the contextual and interpretative frameworks to analyze the experiences of African-Caribbeans in England and the various risks factors associated with schizophrenia in this population. It will contribute to an understanding of the role of socio-environmental factors in the development of schizophrenia and anthropological theories on the long-term impacts of immigration over the life course. It will also help to bring to fore the experiences of African-Caribbean women in schizophrenia and health disparity research. The findings of this study will advance our understanding of how the social environment contributes to the development and experience of schizophrenia. They will be immediately useful to mental health professionals and public policy makers, and will help to facilitate better intervention and treatment programs for schizophrenia. In addition, with an emphasis on second-generation UK African- Caribbean women with schizophrenia, this study will illuminate the long-term impacts of migration on the children of immigrants.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目是对有或没有精神分裂症的英国非洲加勒比妇女的生活经历的民族志调查，以阐明有助于疾病的高流行的社会文化机制和过程。在过去的二十年中，流行病学研究一直报道说，英格兰加勒比海的个体在任何地方都记录了有史以来记录的精神分裂症率最高（（（Littlewood，2001年））。研究数据表明，该人群中的精神分裂症率的增加并不是由于遗传脆弱性或生物学因素，而是对环境压力和其他社会风险因素的研究，但使用了对环境的研究，而尚未探讨的方法却没有到了。非洲加勒比人对社会世界的主观经历塑造了他们的自我意识，他们的情感经历以及他们的体验和应对压力，她会在现有的流行病学发现上进行微分析，对确定的危险因素进行微分析，以更好地了解个人的日常生活，并在社交上产生更大的范围。妇女，在英格兰精神分裂症研究中很大程度上被忽视的妇女。这项民族志工作将通过提供背景和解释性框架来分析英格兰非洲加勒比人的经历以及与该人群中精神分裂症相关的各种风险因素，从而补充流行病学研究。它将有助于理解社会环境因素在精神分裂症和人类学理论发展对移民对生活过程中的长期影响的作用。这也将有助于推动非洲加勒比妇女在精神分裂症和健康差异研究中的经历。这项研究的结果将促进我们对社会环境如何促进精神分裂症的发展和经验的理解。他们将立即对精神卫生专业人员和公共政策制定者有用，并有助于促进精神分裂症的更好的干预和治疗计划。此外，还强调了第二代英国非洲精神分裂症妇女，这项研究将阐明移民对移民子女的长期影响。