Maximizing Immigrant and Refugee Health: A community-partnered approach

最大限度地提高移民和难民的健康：社区合作的方法

• 批准号: 7555854
• 负责人: MICHELE L ALLEN
• 金额: $ 2.34万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-20 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7555854
• 关键词: Action Research; Address; Applied Research; Area; Attention; Cardiovascular Diseases; Clinical Research; Collaborations; Communities; Community Health Services; Community Participation; Development; Funding; Future; Goals; Group Processes; Health; Health Promotion; Health Services Accessibility; Health Status; Hispanics; Housing; Immigrant; Institution; Knowledge; Latino; Lead; Leadership; Location; Medical; Mental Health; Minnesota; Modeling; Neighborhoods; Numbers; Outcome; Plant Roots; Population; Process; Process Measure; Program Development; Provider; Public Health Schools; Refugees; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Side; Social Work; Time; Training; Translating; Trust; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; Youth; base; community based participatory research; experience; falls; health disparity; improved; interest; medical schools; member; preference; programs; skills; success; uptake

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Immigrant and refugee communities experience barriers to accessing services and disparities in health outcomes. One means for addressing the health of these populations is community based participatory action research (CBPAR). CBPAR has the potential to improve the health of immigrant and refugee communities by generating research that is relevant to the community, informed by the experiences of community, and applied within a community-cultural context. However, CBPAR has created few successful models for facilitating relationship building and collaboration between community members and researchers beyond single partnerships or projects. Therefore, the long term goal of our project is to produce a sustainable CBPAR model through a partnership between Latino, Hmong, and Somali communities, medical and social service providers, and academic researchers, that creates the necessary prerequisites to facilitate CBPAR on a variety of health topics of mutually identified interests, and ultimately results in relevant research, effective programs, and improved health and wellness of immigrant and refugee communities in St. Paul, Minnesota. The project will develop a model for training and formalized facilitation to support mutually beneficial community-university health research collaborations based on community priorities. The program will train activated community members and prepared researchers who will form partnerships for CBPAR projects; utilize trusted community institutions to direct the training and facilitation processes, and ultimately translate results for use in their agencies; and implement a flexible and dynamic infrastructure to assist in partnership creation and development. The approach will address four barriers to community involvement in the development and implementation of applied research: trust; relevance; cultural appropriateness and uptake. The program's success will be evaluated using group process measures and outcomes including the number of research projects developed and funded. If successful, this approach to partnership building can be disseminated and replicated in other settings. Furthermore, both the model established here and the initial research projects developed through this program will lead to further program development, and applications for future NIH funding. For the Partners in Research initiative, we intend to fulfill three primary aims around generating and evaluating a sustainable CBPAR model: Aim 1: Build a process to create activated community members and prepared researchers. Aim 2: Utilize current relationships and initiatives to develop the infrastructure that will facilitate collaboration between community and University of Minnesota health researchers. Aim 3: Evaluate the success of collaborative research partnerships at developing and implementing projects.

描述（由申请人提供）：移民和难民社区在获得服务方面遇到障碍，并且健康结果存在差异。解决这些人群健康问题的一种方法是基于社区的参与性行动研究（CBPAR）。 CBPAR 有潜力通过开展与社区相关、借鉴社区经验并在社区文化背景下应用的研究来改善移民和难民社区的健康。然而，除了单一的伙伴关系或项目之外，CBPAR 几乎没有创建成功的模型来促进社区成员和研究人员之间的关系建立和协作。因此，我们项目的长期目标是通过拉丁裔、苗族和索马里社区、医疗和社会服务提供者以及学术研究人员之间的合作，建立一个可持续的 CBPAR 模型，为促进 CBPAR 就共同感兴趣的各种健康主题开展必要的先决条件，并最终产生相关研究、有效的计划，并改善圣保罗移民和难民社区的健康和福祉， 明尼苏达州。该项目将开发一个培训和正式便利化模型，以支持基于社区优先事项的互惠互利的社区-大学健康研究合作。该计划将培训活跃的社区成员和准备好的研究人员，他们将为 CBPAR 项目建立合作伙伴关系；利用值得信赖的社区机构来指导培训和促进流程，并最终将结果转化为在其机构中使用；并实施灵活、动态的基础设施，以协助伙伴关系的创建和发展。该方法将解决社区参与应用研究的开发和实施的四个障碍：信任；关联;文化适宜性和接受度。该计划的成功将使用小组流程衡量标准和结果进行评估，包括开发和资助的研究项目的数量。如果成功，这种建立伙伴关系的方法可以在其他环境中传播和复制。此外，这里建立的模型和通过该计划开发的初步研究项目都将导致进一步的计划开发以及未来 NIH 资金的申请。对于研究合作伙伴计划，我们打算围绕生成和评估可持续的 CBPAR 模型实现三个主要目标： 目标 1：建立一个流程来创建活跃的社区成员和准备好的研究人员。目标 2：利用现有的关系和举措来开发基础设施，以促进社区和明尼苏达大学健康研究人员之间的合作。目标 3：评估合作研究伙伴关系在开发和实施项目方面的成功。