Community Liaison and Recruitment Core

项目总结/摘要 深南RCMAR社区联络和招募核心（CLRC）的主要目标是 1）教育，培训和指导科学家在社区参与的理论为基础的方法，以吸引老年人 黑人/非裔美国人（B/AAs）参与健康相关干预研究，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， 传播关于征聘和留用科学的新知识。我们的招聘方式 和保留借鉴了研究，解决文化在促进老年人的健康的作用。 由于种族主义的制度政策更大，年轻和年长的AA之间存在队列差异 少数族裔长者所遭受的歧视。因此，对于健康信息，老AA依赖于 这在更大程度上取决于其少数民族隔离社区、文化价值观和亲属制度。在 除了家庭和亲属关系网络，年长的AA高度重视他们的宗教信仰， 实践正因为如此，招聘和留住人才的努力应该反映这种丰富的文化结构， 采用基于理论和文化相关的社区参与战略。 在这个应用程序中，我们建立在我们现有的基于社区的基础设施上， 积极参与临床研究的能力，并作为催化剂，以增加参与 老年AA在健康相关的干预研究。通过CLRC的活动，我们希望， RCMAR科学家将继续获得基于证据的招聘和保留工具， 城市和农村老年人活动，并实现老年人活动的参与， 研究项目，以及更明确的传播途径和干预的可持续性。我们的CLRC已经 通过直接针对个人的广泛努力，成功地使农村和城市社区参与进来， 以及社区团体和变革推动者等组织渠道。我们设想 持续的互利合作，为CLRC和RCMAR科学家提供机会， 征求社区对潜在研究问题的发展的意见，并让社区成员 享受更多的访问国家的最先进的临床研究集中在老年人的AA。 为了实现这些更广泛的目标，我们为社区联络提出了以下具体目标， 深南RCMAR的招聘核心： 1.与研究教育组件（REC）合作，进行教育，培训和指导 RCMAR科学家关于社区参与和协助的理论和方法 RCMAR科学家招募年长的AA进行研究 2.通过以下方式，提高对招募和留住城市和农村老年人的科学认识： 对与社区合作制定的招聘和留用战略进行实证检验 成员 3.通过提供健康教育研讨会，扩大社区-学术伙伴关系的能力 以及为社区伙伴提供与赠款有关的教育。许多社区合作伙伴对 获得小额资金以支持其社区相关项目。 4.向科学界和我们所服务的社区传播研究成果。

Project Summary/Abstract The primary objectives of the Deep South RCMAR Community Liaison and Recruitment Core (CLRC) are to 1) educate, train, and mentor Scientists in community-engaged theory-based approaches to engaging older Black/African Americans (B/AAs) in health-related intervention 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. There are cohort differences between younger and older AAs because of greater institutional policies of racism and discrimination experienced by minority elders. Consequently, for health information, older AAs rely, to a greater extent, on their minority segregated communities, their cultural values, and their kinship systems. 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 community engagement strategies that are theory-based and culturally relevant. In this application, we build upon our existing 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 intervention research studies. 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. Our CLRC has successfully engaged rural and urban communities via broad-based efforts aimed directly at individuals, as well as organizational conduits such as community-based groups and agents of change. 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 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 by providing health education seminars and grant-related education for community partners. Many community partners are interested in securing small funds to support their community-related projects. 4. Disseminate research findings to the scientific community and the communities we serve.