COMPUTERIZED CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM FOR HEALTH ORGANIZATION

卫生组织计算机化跨文化能力评估计划

• 批准号: 8525164
• 负责人: KIEN SHAN LEE
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: COMMUNITY SCIENCE, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-11 至 2014-12-10
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8525164
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Behavioral; Caring; Colorado; Communities; Computer Assisted; Development; Education; Ensure; Ethnic group; Feedback; Focus Groups; Fostering; Goals; Guidelines; Health; Health Personnel; Health Professional; Health Services; Health Services Accessibility; Healthcare; Institute of Medicine (U.S.); Institutes; Institution; Institutional Policy; Intervention; Knowledge; Life; Linguistics; Maintenance; Measures; Minority Groups; Mission; Monitor; Movement; Outcome; Participant; Phase; Population; Process; Provider; Race; Readiness; Recommendation; Research; Research Infrastructure; Resources; Sales; Science; Services; Staging; System; Testing; Time; Training; Translating; Translational Research; Trust; Underserved Population; United States; United States Dept. of Health and Human Services; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; base; community organizations; computer program; computerized; cost effective; design; ethnic minority population; experience; health care quality; health disparity; health organization; improved; innovation; interest; meetings; member; minority health; programs; prototype; public health relevance; racial and ethnic; research and development; response; social health determinants; tool; virtual

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Healthcare disparities are persistent, pervasive, and disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minority communities. Cross-cultural education in the training of health professionals as well as institutional policies and infrastructure that address the needs of racial, ethnic, and other underserved populations are critical to equitable care. Likewise, culturally competent healthcare organizations and services can have a powerful impact on increasing the equity of care for racial and ethnic minorities to ultimately reduce health disparities. The aims of the proposed Phase I research and development effort are to: 1) develop the components of a prototype for a research-based, computer-assisted cross-cultural and linguistic competency assessment and action planning toolkit that will help health organizations increase their capacity to better meet the needs of racial and ethnic minorities; and 2) test the content of the prototype and the feasibility of its implementation to prepare for the development of the complete toolkit in Phase II. Approximately 30 staff members from five health-related organizations and 24 health consumers who represent the diverse racial and ethnic groups the organizations serve will participate in focus groups. Key themes from the focus groups will help inform the refinement of assessment questions and scenarios based on situations that health consumers and providers encounter. Staff from the five organizations will pilot the prototype and participate in a webinar to discuss the components and utility of toolkit a well as ease of use, limitations, and recommendations for the design of the complete program. Item analyses will be used to examine the organizational cross-cultural and linguistic competency factors and identify clusters of organizations at various stages of cross-cultural and linguistic competency readiness and development. The aims of the proposed research are consistent with the mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to apply knowledge to enhance health and life and its goal to foster fundamental creative discoveries, innovative research strategies, and their applications as a basis for protecting and improving health. The proposed product will advance the mission of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) to promote minority health and support efforts to reduce health disparities and NIMHD's interests in interventions and translational research that address cultural competency and social determinants of health.

描述（由申请人提供）：医疗保健差异持续存在、普遍存在，并且对少数种族和族裔社区产生了不成比例的影响。卫生专业人员培训中的跨文化教育以及满足种族、族裔和其他服务不足人群需求的机构政策和基础设施对于公平护理至关重要。同样，具有文化能力的医疗保健组织和服务可以对提高少数种族和族裔的护理公平性产生巨大影响，从而最终减少健康差距。拟议的第一阶段研究和开发工作的目标是：1）开发基于研究的计算机辅助跨文化和语言能力评估和行动规划工具包的原型组件，该工具包将帮助卫生组织提高能力，更好地满足种族和少数民族的需求； 2）测试原型的内容及其实施的可行性，为第二阶段完整工具包的开发做好准备。来自五个健康相关组织的大约 30 名工作人员和代表这些组织所服务的不同种族和族裔群体的 24 名健康消费者将参加焦点小组。焦点小组的关键主题将有助于根据健康消费者和提供者遇到的情况来完善评估问题和情景。来自五个组织的工作人员将试用该原型并参加网络研讨会，讨论工具包的组件和实用性以及整个程序设计的易用性、限制和建议。项目分析将用于检查组织的跨文化和语言能力因素，并确定处于跨文化和语言能力准备和发展不同阶段的组织集群。拟议研究的目的与美国国立卫生研究院 (NIH) 的使命一致，即应用知识来改善健康和生活，以及促进基本创造性发现、创新研究策略及其应用作为保护和改善健康的基础。拟议的产品将推进国家少数民族健康和健康差异研究所 (NIMHD) 的使命，即促进少数民族健康并支持减少健康差异的努力以及 NIMHD 对解决文化能力和健康社会决定因素的干预措施和转化研究的兴趣。