Mental Health CPR: Transforming Cancer Survivors' Mental Health with Community Participatory Reach for Equity

项目摘要 西班牙裔癌症患者和幸存者面临社会和结构性不平等，使心理健康永久化 差距。尽管存在这些挑战，研究小组和社区合作伙伴相信， 社会环境因素造成的心理健康不公平现象可以通过社区- 基于多层次的干预措施;但目前还不存在。这个项目具有很强的变革性和创新性 因为它破坏了传统的心理肿瘤学精神卫生保健，以解决上游结构（有限的访问 社会心理和精神健康不平等以及心理困扰筛查）、社会（精神健康 污名）和生物学（压力和炎症生物标志物）决定因素的心理健康西班牙裔 癌症患者和幸存者。这种转变将通过同时整合基层来实现 （社区领导人）和自上而下（机构）的资源，以增加获得专门的心理肿瘤学 精神卫生保健服务和心理困扰筛查，同时消除精神卫生污名。第一、 该小组将培训非专业的社区领导人，使他们成为解决心理肿瘤问题的社区卫生工作者 心理健康预防工作。其次，调查人员将与社区利益相关者一起沿着， 建议通过整合和调整一套个人/社区的多层次社区干预 研究小组成员先前制定和实施的干预措施和服务举措 并被证明对波多黎各西班牙裔癌症患者和幸存者的心理社会和精神 健康福祉。在社区层面，团队将首先培训非专业社区领袖， 心理健康工作者通过PHSU-RCMI健康差异社区培训研究所。在 在人际关系层面，以社区为基础的干预措施将整合家庭沟通技能， 西班牙裔癌症病患与幸存者家属照顾者支持品质之研究。在个人层面，干预 将影响心理健康预防的所有阶段，以预防和解决心理困扰 癌症及其治疗的结果。在生物学水平上，研究人员将评估 对心理应激生物标志物（皮质醇和儿茶酚胺代谢物）的社区干预， 炎症标志物（细胞因子和趋化因子）与慢性压力和癌症健康结果有关。的 该团队预计，该项目将通过多层次的方法推动人口层面的变革性影响 使社区能够了解和解决个人的心理健康问题。

PROJECT SUMMARY Hispanic cancer patients and survivors face social and structural inequalities perpetuating mental health disparities. Despite these challenges, the study team and community partners are convinced that psychosocial and mental health inequities perpetrated by socio-environmental factors can be overcome through community- based multilevel interventions; yet none currently exist. This project is highly transformative and innovative because it disrupts traditional psycho-oncology mental health care to address upstream structural (limited access to psychosocial and mental health inequities and psychological distress screening), social (mental health stigma), and biological (stress and inflammation biomarkers) determinants of mental health among Hispanic cancer patients and survivors. This transformation will be achieved by simultaneously integrating grassroots (community leaders) and top-down (institutional) resources to increase access to specialized psycho-oncology mental health care services and psychological distress screening while eradicating mental health stigma. First, the team will train lay community leaders to become community health workers addressing psycho-oncology mental health prevention efforts. Second, the investigators, along with community stakeholders, will package the proposed multilevel community-based intervention by integrating and adapting a suite of individual/community interventions and service initiatives previously developed and implemented by members of the research team and proven to positively impact Puerto Rican Hispanic cancer patients and survivors’ psychosocial and mental health wellbeing. At the community level, the team will first train lay community leaders to become community mental health workers through the PHSU-RCMI Community Training Institute for Health Disparities. At the interpersonal level, the community-based intervention will integrate family-communications skills to impact Hispanic cancer patients' and survivor family caregivers’ support quality. At the individual level, the intervention will impact all phases of the mental health prevention continuum to prevent and address psychological distress resulting from cancer and its treatment. At the biological level, investigators will assess the effect of the community intervention on psychological stress biomarkers (cortisol and catecholamine metabolites) and inflammation markers (cytokines and chemokines) related to chronic stress and cancer health outcomes. The team anticipates this project will push a transformative population-level impact through a multilevel approach that empowers communities to understand and address mental health among individuals.