CULTURE CARE: MEANINGS, PATTERNS AND EXPRESSIONS FOR BAGANDA WOMEN AS AIDS CAREGIVERS WITHIN LEININGER'S THEORY (CAREGIVERS, UGANDA, IMMUNE DEFICIENCY, ETHNONURSING).
Contributors: Wayne State University.
Published: 1994
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Women's Studies.
Description: In Uganda, AIDS patients are increasingly cared for at home by women in their traditional role of family caregiver. This transcultural nursing study utilized Leininger's (1991) Culture Care Theory to discover the meanings, patterns, and expressions of AIDS caregiving for Ugandan women within the largest culture in the country, the Baganda.

Ethnonursing, supported by lifehistory and Leininger's (1988, 1990, 1991, 1993) Sunrise Model, was used to inductively discover the meanings, patterns, and expressions of care among 12 key and 25 general Baganda informants providing AIDS caregiving to family members. In-depth data were collected by interviewing informants selected from home-based nursing care programs in the Rakai/Masaka and the Kampala areas. Data were analysed using Leininger's (1990) four Phases of Ethnonursing Analysis for Qualitative Data. Specific qualitative criteria were applied throughout the study (Lincoln & Guba, 1985; Leininger, 1991).

Six major themes were identified which were supported with descriptors and patterns. Five reflected commonalities among Baganda women as AIDS caregivers, and one addressed diversity. The findings highlighted the tremendous struggle of Baganda women to provide care and love for family members with AIDS, identified intergenerational care as essential for survival and prevention of HIV infection, and offered insight into improving the quality of life for those who are HIV positive.

Care knowledge from these findings can be used to provide culturally congruent nursing care to Baganda families who are afflicted with AIDS through all three modes of professional nursing actions and decisions: cultural care preservation/maintenance, cultural care accomodation/negotiation, and cultural care repatterning or restructuring, and lend support to the development of a global care knowledge from a transcultural perspective.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-02, Section: B, page: 0743.

Thesis (PH.D.)--WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, 1994.

School code: 0254.