Community Liaison and Recruitment Core

项目摘要/摘要--社区联络和招聘核心 南方腹地少数民族老龄化研究资源中心(RCMAR)是由四个独特的 优势互补的南方院校：阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校，莫尔豪斯 塔斯基吉大学医学院和阿拉巴马大学。该计划的主要目标 社区联络和招募核心(CLRC)旨在(1)在理论上教育、培训和指导科学家- 让老年非裔美国人(AA)参与与健康相关的研究的基本方法，(2)协助RCMAR (3)建立一个可持续的基础设施，使其能够 产生和传播有关招聘和留用科学的新知识。我们的方法是 招聘和留住利用了一项研究，该研究解决了文化在促进 年纪较大的美国人。年长的AA在更大程度上依赖于他们的少数族裔隔离社区、他们的文化价值观、 和他们的亲属关系系统来接收健康信息。除了家庭和扩展的亲属关系网络之外， 年长的协会高度重视他们的宗教信仰和实践。正因为如此，招聘和保留 努力应该反映这种丰富的文化结构，并采用基于理论和文化的战略 切合实际。在此应用程序中，我们构建在现有的基于农村和城市社区的基础设施之上 培养了社区积极参与临床研究的能力，并推动了 增加老年AA参与与健康相关的研究。我们期待着继续相互 有益的参与，为CLRC和RCMAR科学家提供征集社区的机会 对潜在研究问题的开发和社区成员享受增强的 可以获得最先进的临床研究，重点是较老的AA。为了实现这些更广泛的目标，我们 为南方腹地社区联络和招募核心提出以下具体目标 RCMAR：(1)与研究教育组件(REC)协作，以教育、培训和 指导RCMAR科学家关于社区参与的理论和方法，并协助RCMAR 科学家招募较年长的高级行政人员进行研究；(2)增进 通过实证检验招募和保留城市和农村老年协会的招募和保留 与社区成员合作制定战略；(3)扩大社区学术能力 建立伙伴关系，支持招募和保留城市和农村较老的高级行政人员；和(4)传播 将研究成果提供给科学界和我们所服务的社区。通过该组织的活动 CLRC，我们预计RCMAR科学家将继续获得基于证据的招聘和 为城市和农村较老的AA提供保留工具，并实现较旧的AA的更多参与，更大 社区对研究项目的“买入”，以及更明确的传播和干预可持续性途径。

Project Summary/Abstract – Community Liaison and Recruitment Core The Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) is a collaborative of four unique Southern institutions with complementary strengths: The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Morehouse School of Medicine, Tuskegee University, and The University of Alabama. The primary objectives of the Community Liaison and Recruitment Core (CLRC) are to (1) educate, train, and mentor Scientists in theory- based approaches to engaging older African Americans (AAs) in health-related research, (2) assist RCMAR Scientists in recruiting older AAs into their research studies, and (3) build a sustainable infrastructure that will generate and disseminate new knowledge regarding the science of recruitment and retention. Our approach to recruitment and retention draws upon research that addresses the role of culture in promoting health among older AAs. Older AAs rely, to a greater extent, on their minority segregated communities, their cultural values, and their kinship systems to receive health information. In addition to family and extended kinship networks, older AAs place high value on their religious beliefs and practices. Because of this, recruitment and retention endeavors should reflect this rich cultural fabric and employ strategies that are theory-based and culturally relevant. In this application, we build upon our existing rural and urban community-based infrastructure that has fostered community capacity for active engagement in clinical research and has served as a catalyst to increase participation of older AAs in health-related research studies. We envision continued mutually beneficial engagement, fostering opportunities both for the CLRC and RCMAR Scientists to solicit community input on the development of potential research questions and for community members to enjoy enhanced access to state-of-the-art clinical research focused on older AAs. To accomplish these broader goals, we propose the following specific aims for the Community Liaison and Recruitment Core of the Deep South RCMAR: (1) Work collaboratively with the Research Education Component (REC) to educate, train, and mentor RCMAR Scientists regarding the theory and approach to community engagement and assist RCMAR Scientists in recruiting older AAs to their research studies; (2) Advance scientific knowledge in the area of recruitment and retention of older urban and rural AAs by empirically testing recruitment and retention strategies developed in partnership with community members; (3) Expand capacity for community-academic partnerships to support the recruitment and retention of older urban and rural AAs; and (4) Disseminate research findings to the scientific community and the communities we serve. Through the activities of the CLRC, we expect that RCMAR Scientists will continue to have access to evidence-based recruitment and retention tools for both urban and rural older AAs, and realize enhanced participation of older AAs, greater community “buy-in” to research projects, and clearer routes of dissemination and intervention sustainability.