PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY-BASED COALITIONS

参与社区联盟

• 批准号: 6951549
• 负责人: REBECCA SUSAN WELLS
• 金额: $ 2.11万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-21 至 2005-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6951549
• 关键词: African American; Hispanic Americans; adolescence (12-20); age at pregnancy; alcoholism /alcohol abuse; behavior modification; behavioral /social science research tag; cancer prevention; clinical research; community health services; drug abuse; health /scientific organization; health behavior; health care model; human data; information dissemination; medically underserved population; neoplasm /cancer education; smoking; tobacco abuse

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Community-based coalitions are integral to the National Cancer Institute's strategy for disseminating evidence-based interventions to reduce the burden of cancer in the United States, especially in underserved areas. As collaborative organizations, coalitions offer great promise in marshalling the combined resources of member agencies, businesses, and private citizens toward sustainable health promotion in culturally and community specific ways. At the same time, the discretionary nature of their members' participation poses the constant threat of disengagement. Thus, an understanding of what supports member participation is vital to ensuring the sustained capacity of community-based coalitions to engage in cancer control activities. This study will test a conceptual model of the factors affecting member participation in community-based coalitions and will examine how participation leads to specific prevention activities. The investigators will pursue this agenda through previously collected data from cancer-prevention coalitions within the Appalachia Cancer Network. They will then compare both constructs and patterns of association to those in a sample of Communities That Care coalitions focusing on adolescent behavior problems, many of which also increase cancer risks. The result will be a model that has greater specificity and generality than has been achieved in previous studies. The new model will enable us to see (1) how to measure factors potentially related to participation within community-based health promotion coalitions; (2) what coalition-level attributes affect individual members' participation; and (3) how participation levels support prevention activities at the coalition level. This study will lay the groundwork for subsequent research establishing a mid-range theory of community-based health promotion coalition participation.

描述（由申请人提供）： 基于社区的联盟是国家癌症研究所（National Cancer Institute）传播基于证据的干预措施以减轻美国癌症负担的战略不可或缺的一部分。作为合作组织，联盟在编组成员机构，企业和私人公民的综合资源方面为可持续的健康促进以文化和社区为特定的方式促进。同时，其成员参与的酌情性质构成了不断脱离接触的威胁。因此，对支持会员参与的原因的理解对于确保社区联盟从事癌症控制活动的持续能力至关重要。 这项研究将测试影响成员参与基于社区联盟的因素的概念模型，并将研究参与如何导致特定的预防活动。研究人员将通过先前从阿巴拉契亚癌症网络内的预防癌症联盟收集的数据来追求这一议程。然后，他们将将结构和关联的模式与关心关注青少年行为问题的社区样本中的结构和模式进行比较，其中许多人也会增加癌症风险。 结果将是一个比以前的研究具有更高特异性和通用性的模型。新模型将使我们能够看到（1）如何衡量与基于社区的健康促进联盟参与的因素； （2）哪些联盟级属性会影响个人成员的参与； （3）参与水平如何支持联盟一级的预防活动。这项研究将为随后的研究奠定基础，以建立基于社区的健康促进联盟参与的中端理论。