Muecke M
Department of Psychosocial and Community Health, School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle 98125-7263, USA.
Women Health. 2001;33(1-2):21-37. doi: 10.1300/J013v33n01_03.
Because persons with AIDS in Thailand usually are cared for by their families, and because government AIDS policy relies upon this assistance for the care of the country's sick, the research reported here addressed the questions: Who are the home and community care givers for PWA? What kind of care do they give? And, What is the impact of care giving on the care giver(s)? Informants were drawn in 1998-99 from a long-term birth cohort study of a non-clinical urban population in the country's province of highest AIDS mortality, ChiangMai. The study was part of a larger, exploratory ethnographic study of the interplay among health, reproduction and development among persons born in 1964 and their mothers that I began in 1973. Findings include that among care-givers, parents, overwhelmingly mothers, and wives considered it their place, duty and moral benefit to care for adult children or husbands sick with AIDS.
由于泰国的艾滋病患者通常由其家人照顾，且政府的艾滋病政策依赖这种援助来照顾该国的病人，因此本文所报告的研究探讨了以下问题：艾滋病患者的家庭和社区照顾者是谁？他们提供何种照顾？以及，照顾行为对照顾者有何影响？1998年至1999年，研究对象来自对该国艾滋病死亡率最高的省份清迈一个非临床城市人口的长期出生队列研究。该研究是我于1973年开始的一项更大规模的探索性人种学研究的一部分，该研究探讨了1964年出生的人群及其母亲在健康、生殖和发展之间的相互作用。研究结果包括，在照顾者中，父母，绝大多数是母亲，以及妻子认为照顾患艾滋病的成年子女或丈夫是他们的责任、义务和道德益处。
