Rogler L H
Hispanic Research Center, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458.
Am J Psychiatry. 1989 Mar;146(3):296-303. doi: 10.1176/ajp.146.3.296.
To answer the question of what culturally sensitive mental health research is, the author focuses on the entire process of research. He argues that research is made culturally sensitive through a continuing, incessant, and open-ended series of substantive and methodological insertions and adaptations designed to mesh the process of inquiry with the cultural characteristics of the group being studied. Illustrations include pretesting and planning of research, collection of data and translation of instruments, instrumentation of measures, and analysis and interpretation of data. The insertions and adaptations ideally have a cumulative effect in rendering individual projects culturally sensitive and in building culturally informed research.
为了回答什么是具有文化敏感性的心理健康研究这一问题，作者聚焦于研究的整个过程。他认为，研究通过一系列持续、不间断且开放式的实质性和方法性的嵌入与调整变得具有文化敏感性，这些嵌入与调整旨在使探究过程与所研究群体的文化特征相契合。示例包括研究的预测试和规划、数据收集与工具翻译、测量工具的使用以及数据的分析与解读。理想情况下，这些嵌入与调整在使单个项目具有文化敏感性以及构建基于文化的研究方面具有累积效应。
