A Faith-Based Partnership to Address Obesity in African American families

解决非裔美国家庭肥胖问题的基于信仰的伙伴关系

• 批准号: 8925121
• 负责人: LORNA H. MCNEILL
• 金额: $ 2.9万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-15 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8925121
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Adult; Affect; African American; Age; Anxiety; Applications Grants; Behavior; Breast; Cancer Center; Child; Church; Collaborations; Colon; Communities; Community Health; Coronary heart disease; Data; Data Collection; Degenerative polyarthritis; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Education; Environment; Evidence based intervention; Face; Family; Feedback; Future; Goals; Grant; Health; Health Promotion; Health education; Hypertension; Institute of Medicine (U.S.); Institution; Leadership; Life; Malignant Neoplasms; Media Intervention; Mental Depression; Methodist Church; Methods; Morbidity - disease rate; Needs Assessment; Not Hispanic or Latino; Obesity; Parents; Population; Prevalence; Preventive Intervention; Reporting; Research; Risk; Series; Stigmatization; Stroke; University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center; Woman; Youth; anticancer research; base; cardiovascular risk factor; community based participatory research; disorder prevention; driving force; family influence; health disparity; improved; interest; knowledge base; meetings; men; multidisciplinary; novel; obesity prevention; obesity risk; organizational structure; prevention service; programs; psychosocial; social; symposium; therapy development; trend

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): ABSTRACT Obesity continues to be highly prevalent in the African American (AA) population, affecting nearly 40% of AA men and a staggering 59% of AA women. Unfortunately this trend is also present in AA children and adolescents; recent data indicate obesity prevalence in AA children and adolescents (age 2 - 19) to be 24.3% compared to 16.1% of non-Hispanic whites. Given some evidence that obesity spreads through social ties, including families, such that there is an increased risk of obesity among children when a parent is obese, developing effective family-based approaches to improving obesity and its related behaviors is paramount. Collaborative partnerships between academic institutions and faith-based organizations, specifically churches, may be one of the most optimal mediums for intervention development. The proposed conference grant seeks to lay the groundwork for the development of strategies to address family-based obesity in the AA community by leveraging the faith community. This will be accomplished by expanding an existing research partnership between The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD Anderson) and Windsor Village United Methodist Church (WVUMC) - Creating a Higher Understanding of Cancer Research & Community Health (CHURCH). Specifically, we will: 1) enhance an existing faith-based-academic partnership to address family obesity and obesity- related behaviors in the African American community; 2) strengthen the capacity of partnership stakeholders and the local community to actively participate in the partnership through capacity building opportunities; 3) assess congregational and community interest in obesity and obesity-related behaviors in African Americans; and 4) develop a community-driven research agenda focused on addressing obesity in faith-based settings). To meet these aims we will invite community partners to join an academic-community-faith-based partnership, develop an organizational structure for the partnership and strengthen partnership through capacity building. We will conduct a community needs assessment focused on church- based factors that influence implementation of obesity programs and concerns and needs of AA youth, adults and church leadership with regards to obesity and its related behaviors. We will implement health education derived from community assessments, solicit feedback, and develop a project concept for future development into a grant application. Our goal is that the successful completion of this conference grant series will result in: 1) an expanded academic, faith-based partnership with the capacity to be leaders and a driving force to eliminate disparities in AA obesity in Houston and potentially nationally (Aims & 2); 2) a comprehensive assessment of the strengths and needs of AA families and faith- based organizations to address obesity (Aim 3); and 3) a community-driven agenda in the form of project concepts, future grants, and sustained Partnership beyond the life of the conference series grant (Aim 4).

摘要肥胖在非裔美国人（AA）人群中仍然非常普遍，影响了近40%的非裔美国男性和惊人的59%的非裔美国女性。不幸的是，这种趋势也存在于嗜酒成瘾的儿童和青少年中；最近的数据表明，AA儿童和青少年（2 - 19岁）的肥胖率为24.3%，而非西班牙裔白人的肥胖率为16.1%。有证据表明，肥胖是通过包括家庭在内的社会关系传播的，例如，当父母中有一方肥胖时，儿童肥胖的风险会增加，因此，制定有效的以家庭为基础的方法来改善肥胖及其相关行为是至关重要的。学术机构和信仰组织（特别是教会）之间的合作伙伴关系可能是干预发展的最佳媒介之一。提议的会议拨款旨在为制定策略奠定基础，通过利用信仰社区来解决AA社区中基于家庭的肥胖问题。这将通过扩大德克萨斯大学MD安德森癌症中心（MD Anderson）和温莎村联合卫理公会教堂（WVUMC）之间现有的研究合作伙伴关系来实现-创造对癌症研究和社区健康（Church）的更高理解。具体来说，我们将：1)加强现有的基于信仰的学术伙伴关系，以解决非裔美国人社区的家庭肥胖和肥胖相关行为；2)通过能力建设机会，加强伙伴关系利益相关者和当地社区积极参与伙伴关系的能力；