TEN SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN FAMILIES: CULTURAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH RELATED CHARACTERISTICS (FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE, NURSE-MIDWIVES, RELATIVISM, CARE, TRANSCULTURAL EDUCATION).
Contributors: University of Pittsburgh.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: This qualitative study investigates and describes health related cultural characteristics of ten families from the Southern Appalachian Mountain Subculture, (Subculture). It is premised on the Spradley/McCurdy definition of culture as knowledge. The study was specifically designed to produce cognitive material on the Subculture for use in reducing cultural shock, desensitizing, and modifying attitudes of ethnocentrism of undergraduate and graduate health care professionals from the dominant culture working with the Subculture. The methodology, new ethnography, is used for its focus on the description of "what is" and avoidance of interpretation of "what is" by the investigator. Data was collected by taped interviews in the family home by the investigator. Presentation of data is in two dimensions: a set of ten family profiles and a set of four descriptive categories of cultural determinants of health. A verbatim format is used extensively. Implications and recommendations for nursing and nursing education are based on transcultural nursing theories of Leininger, Tripp-Reimer and Rocereto as perceived from the investigator's experiential constructs of this subculture.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-07, Section: B, page: 2259.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 1985.

School code: 0178.