Xavier RCMI Renewal Application-Overall

路易斯安那州泽维尔大学的研究人员提出了一个诊所，医疗保健机构， 社区调查为基础的研究项目，以评估的信念和行为， 非洲裔美国人接种新型冠状病毒疫苗的意愿 路易斯安那州东南部地区2019冠状病毒病大流行对全球 美国各地的非裔美国人。路易斯安那州在全国人均排名第一 COVID-19的发病率。非裔美国人占所有已知死亡人数的50%以上 COVID-19患者在该州，而只代表约32%的人口。与 在不久的将来开发COVID-19疫苗，对非洲的紧急评估 需要美国社区对疫苗摄取的准备， 增加疫苗接种的干预模式。该提案的具体目标是： 具体目标#1：确定疫苗犹豫的因素和潜在的可接受性， 在路易斯安那州东南部的非洲裔美国成年人社区接种COVID-19疫苗。 具体目标#2：评估COVID-19对个人和财务的影响，了解 COVID-19，以及医疗保健系统在COVID-19方面的经验。 具体目标#3：使用目标#1和#2的结果通知社区药剂师 认证课程和药剂师主导的药剂师疫苗接种干预模式。 方法：具体目标1和2将在研究开始时通过调查进行评估， 9个月后，对诊所、社区成员和社区进行简短的随访调查 药房患者受访者。疫苗犹豫的变化及其对疫苗的影响 将确定摄取量。目标3将由药剂师领导的教育干预进行评估 在药房进行干预之前和之后进行疫苗接种监测的模式。 影响：这个拟议项目的影响是了解健康相关的信念， 与COVID-19和疫苗接种相关的行为及其对可能摄入的 非洲裔美国人接种COVID-19疫苗。它还将提供数据， 制定战略，改善脆弱社区的COVID-19疫苗接种， 社区药剂师作为疫苗接种者，有一个前后分析计划， 干预的成功。这笔赠款还将促进培训早期调查人员， 使健康研究人员队伍多样化，因为大多数研究人员都是 代表性不足的少数民族和/或妇女。

The investigators at Xavier University of Louisiana propose a clinic, health care institution, and community survey-based research project to assess the beliefs and behavior regarding willingness to be vaccinated with a prospective COVID-19 vaccine among African Americans in the Southeastern Louisiana region. The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted the African Americans across the United States. Louisiana ranks 1st in the nation in per capita incidence of COVID-19. African Americans make up over 50% of the deaths of all known COVID-19 patients in the state, while only representing about 32% of the population. With the development of a COVID-19 vaccine on the near horizon, an urgent assessment of the African American community’s readiness for vaccine uptake is needed to inform a pharmacist-led intervention model that will increase vaccine uptake. The Specific Aims of this proposal are: Specific Aim #1: To identify factors of vaccine hesitancy and the potential acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine among the adult African-American community in Southeastern Louisiana. Specific Aim #2: To assess the personal and financial impact of COVID-19, knowledge of COVID-19, as well as experience with the healthcare system with regards to COVID-19. Specific Aim #3: To use the results of Aim #1 and #2 to inform a community pharmacist certification course and a pharmacist led intervention model among pharmacist vaccinators. Method: Specific Aim #1 and #2 will be assessed by a survey at the start of the study with an abbreviated follow-up survey 9 months later from clinic, community member and community pharmacy patient respondents. Changes in vaccine hesitancy and the impact on vaccine uptake will be determined. Aim #3 will be assessed by a pharmacist led education intervention model with vaccine uptake surveillance pre and post the intervention in the pharmacies. Impact: The implications of this proposed project are to understand health related beliefs and behaviors related to COVID-19 and vaccination and their impact on the likely uptake of a COVID-19 vaccine among African Americans. It will also provide data to facilitate the development of strategies to improve COVID-19 vaccination in a vulnerable community with community pharmacists as vaccinators with a pre-and post analysis plan to assess the intervention’s success. This grant will also facilitate training early stage investigators and diversify the health research workforce as the majority of researchers are among underrepresented minorities and/or women.