Community Liaison and Recruitment Core

项目概要/摘要-社区联络和招募核心 南方资源中心少数民族老龄化研究（RCMAR）是一个合作的四个独特的 优势互补的南方院校：位于伯明翰的亚拉巴马大学莫尔豪斯分校 塔斯基吉大学医学院和亚拉巴马大学。的主要目标 社区联络和招募核心（CLRC）是（1）教育，培训和指导科学家在理论上- 基于方法，使老年非裔美国人（AAs）参与健康相关研究，（2）协助RCMAR 科学家招募年长的AA进入他们的研究，（3）建立一个可持续的基础设施， 产生和传播关于征聘和留用科学的新知识。我们的方法来 招聘和保留利用研究，解决文化在促进健康的作用， 年长的AA较老的AA在更大程度上依赖于他们的少数民族隔离社区，他们的文化价值观， 和他们的亲属系统来接收健康信息。除了家庭和大的亲属关系网之外， 年长的AA非常重视他们的宗教信仰和实践。因此，招聘和保留 努力应该反映这种丰富的文化结构，并采用基于理论和文化的战略 相关的在这个应用程序中，我们建立在我们现有的农村和城市社区基础设施， 培养了社区积极参与临床研究的能力，并作为催化剂， 增加老年助理医师参与与健康有关的研究。我们设想继续相互 有益的参与，为CLRC和RCMAR科学家提供机会， 对潜在研究问题的发展提供投入，并让社区成员享受增强的 获得针对老年AA的最先进临床研究。为了实现这些目标，我们 为南方腹地的社区联络和招募核心提出以下具体目标 RCMAR：（1）与研究教育组成部分（REC）合作，教育，培训和 指导RCMAR科学家关于社区参与的理论和方法，并协助RCMAR 科学家招募年长的认可人士进行研究工作;（2）增进 通过实证检验招募和保留老年城市和农村AAs 与社区成员合作制定战略;（3）扩大社区学术能力 建立伙伴关系，以支持招募和留住年龄较大的城市和农村助理;以及（4）传播 研究成果向科学界和我们所服务的社区。通过联合国的活动， CLRC，我们预计RCMAR科学家将继续获得循证招聘， 为城市和农村老年人提供保留工具，并实现老年人参与， 社区对研究项目的“支持”，以及更明确的传播途径和干预措施的可持续性。

Project Summary/Abstract – Community Liaison and Recruitment Core The Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) is a collaborative of four unique Southern institutions with complementary strengths: The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Morehouse School of Medicine, Tuskegee University, and The University of Alabama. The primary objectives of the Community Liaison and Recruitment Core (CLRC) are to (1) educate, train, and mentor Scientists in theory- based approaches to engaging older African Americans (AAs) in health-related research, (2) assist RCMAR Scientists in recruiting older AAs into their research studies, and (3) build a sustainable infrastructure that will generate and disseminate new knowledge regarding the science of recruitment and retention. Our approach to recruitment and retention draws upon research that addresses the role of culture in promoting health among older AAs. Older AAs rely, to a greater extent, on their minority segregated communities, their cultural values, and their kinship systems to receive health information. In addition to family and extended kinship networks, older AAs place high value on their religious beliefs and practices. Because of this, recruitment and retention endeavors should reflect this rich cultural fabric and employ strategies that are theory-based and culturally relevant. In this application, we build upon our existing rural and urban community-based infrastructure that has fostered community capacity for active engagement in clinical research and has served as a catalyst to increase participation of older AAs in health-related research studies. We envision continued mutually beneficial engagement, fostering opportunities both for the CLRC and RCMAR Scientists to solicit community input on the development of potential research questions and for community members to enjoy enhanced access to state-of-the-art clinical research focused on older AAs. To accomplish these broader goals, we propose the following specific aims for the Community Liaison and Recruitment Core of the Deep South RCMAR: (1) Work collaboratively with the Research Education Component (REC) to educate, train, and mentor RCMAR Scientists regarding the theory and approach to community engagement and assist RCMAR Scientists in recruiting older AAs to their research studies; (2) Advance scientific knowledge in the area of recruitment and retention of older urban and rural AAs by empirically testing recruitment and retention strategies developed in partnership with community members; (3) Expand capacity for community-academic partnerships to support the recruitment and retention of older urban and rural AAs; and (4) Disseminate research findings to the scientific community and the communities we serve. Through the activities of the CLRC, we expect that RCMAR Scientists will continue to have access to evidence-based recruitment and retention tools for both urban and rural older AAs, and realize enhanced participation of older AAs, greater community “buy-in” to research projects, and clearer routes of dissemination and intervention sustainability.