Petersburg Wellness Consortium

描述（由申请人提供）：该规划赠款建议使用基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）方法进行需求评估，以规划有效的综合干预措施，以解决弗吉尼亚州彼得堡受影响社区中以肥胖为中心的健康问题。虽然彼得堡是一个服务严重不足和经济困难的社区，但它也是一个拥有资产的社区，可以潜在地动员起来弥补其健康差距。一项重要的资产是，金融城的领导层和许多邻里、公民、商业和社区组织都集体认识到必须解决健康状况不佳的问题。我们提出了一种多管齐下的混合方法，通过探索肥胖的流行来解决令人难以置信的不良健康结果。彼得堡健康联盟将由社区健康领导委员会（CHLC）和健康大使组成。妇女是致力于改善其社区健康结果的非专业人员、活跃的社区居民、男性和女性。进行全面需求评估的方法包括资产映射、焦点小组和家庭谈话，最终将举行大型市政厅会议（N=300），其中包括戏剧艺术部分，以传播数据并就干预达成共识。推动需求评估的主要研究问题是：1)确定解决肥胖问题的关键优势和资源；2)社会文化对肥胖的认知；三是确定以家庭为基础，在社区范围内的干预措施，并在全市范围内得到支持，以提高身体素质，改善营养选择。具体目标包括建立和评估彼得堡健康联盟解决肥胖问题的有效性；根据多种来源的社区意见进行需求评估。第三，制定并实施一项试点干预措施，解决个人、家庭、社区和社会因素，以激励社区增加身体活动，改善营养选择和减少肥胖的选择。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This planning grant proposes to use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to conduct a needs assessment to plan an effective, comprehensive intervention to address the health concerns centered around obesity in the affected community of Petersburg, Virginia. While Petersburg is a community that is vastly underserved and economically distressed, it is also a community with assets that can potentially be mobilized to remediate its health disparities. A key asset is the collective recognition among the City's leadership and the many neighborhood, civic, business and community organizations of the imperative to address poor health outcomes. We propose a multipronged, mixed methods approach to address the incredibly poor health outcomes by exploring the epidemic of obesity. The Petersburg Wellness Consortium will consist of the Community Health Leadership Council (CHLC) and Wellness Ambassadors (WAs). WAs are lay persons, active community residents, men and women who are committed to improving health outcomes in their community. The methods to conduct a comprehensive needs assessment include asset mapping, focus groups, and house chats that will culminate with a large town hall meeting (N=300) with a theater arts component to disseminate the data and reach consensus on the intervention. The major research questions that will drive the needs assessment are: 1) identifying the strengths and resources that is critical for addressing obesity; 2) social-cultural perceptions of obesity; and 3 identifying interventions that are family based, community wide and that can be supported City wide to increase physical fitness and improve nutritional choices. Specific aims include establishing and evaluating the effectiveness of the Petersburg Wellness Consortium to address obesity; conducting a needs assessment informed by community input from multiple sources, and third, developing and implementing a pilot intervention that will address individual, family, community, and societal factors to galvanize the community to increase physical activity and improve nutritional choices and options that will reduce obesity. RELEVANCE (See instructions): Obesity is major health disparity concern nationally as well as in the City of Petersburg. The establishment of the Petersburg Wellness Consortium, an academic-community partnership to address obesity as a springboard to many other serious health complications has strong potential to reduce health disparities.