National Core: Leveraging Community, Peer, and Family Support

项目摘要/摘要-利用社区、同行和家庭支持核心 这一核心促进了针对社区的干预措施的研究、开发和评估， 同龄人和家人的支持。我们将社区定义为最重要的生态系统，家庭和同龄人通过它 支持得到了杠杆作用。家庭和同龄人被广义地定义为包括亲缘关系和 包括当前和潜在的新社交网络。这些人可能包括同事、邻居、参与者 在一次集体医疗访问中，虚拟社区的成员，甚至设计良好的应用程序。因此，这个核心 强调a)社区、家庭和同龄人内部和之间的交流(即重叠)；b) 它们共享的特征和过程(即，相互作用)；以及c)它们之间的相互关联 影响及其背景--文化、疾病特征、生命阶段等(即功能)。核心意志 支持对这些主题的研究，包括以社区和保健系统为基础的干预措施 利用社区、同龄人或家庭的影响，广义的。改进设计、实施和 评估干预措施，该核心还将支持探索社区、同伴和家庭支持的研究 路径以及不同的环境如何塑造它们。 该中心的工作与该中心对反种族主义和卫生公平的重视高度相关。重要的是要 考虑社区、家庭和同龄人如何受到种族主义和社会和社会的有害影响的影响 经济上的不公正。与此同时，社区、同龄人和家庭在帮助他们方面发挥着至关重要的作用 个人面对种族主义，应对其对其健康的影响，并在更广泛的范围内减少不平等。这 CORE的目标集中在来自社区、同龄人和家庭的支持如何影响并能够最好地 动员起来，促进糖尿病患者的生活和健康发生实质性的积极变化。 核心是密歇根-北卡罗来纳大学同行支持核心的产物，由密歇根中心资助 糖尿病转化研究，2016-21年。它延续了Peer Support Core对各种 同行和同行支持方法以及支持它们的过程，同时在此基础上扩展到 包括家庭和社区。以国家为重点，Core将为加州大学的同事们提供服务 密歇根大学、北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校和美国各地的糖尿病研究人员。这将是 包括向研究人员和研究项目提供个人咨询、国家推广和促进等 通过国家研究人员特别兴趣小组的网络研讨会和年度研究讲习班 对社区、同龄人和家庭之间的支持对减少 糖尿病预防和管理中的不平等。

Project Summary/Abstract - Leveraging Community, Peer, and Family Support Core This Core facilitates research on and the development and evaluation of interventions addressing community, peer, and family support. We define community as the overarching ecosystem through which family and peer support is leveraged. Families and peers are defined broadly to include biological kin and individuals who comprise current and potential new social networks. These may consist of colleagues, neighbors, participants in a group medical visit, members of a virtual community, and even well-designed apps. Thus, this Core emphasizes a) the exchanges within and between communities, families, and peers (i.e., overlap); b) the characteristics and processes they share (i.e., interact); and c) the reciprocal association between their influence and their contexts – culture, disease characteristics, stage of life, etc. (i.e., function). The Core will support studies into these topics, including interventions anchored in communities and health care systems that utilize community, peer, or family influences, broadly defined. To improve the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions, this Core will also support studies exploring community, peer, and family support paths and how different contexts shape them. The Core’s work is highly pertinent to the Center’s emphasis on anti-racism and health equity. It is important to consider how communities, families, and peers are influenced by the harmful effects of racism and social and economic injustice. At the same time, communities, peers, and families have critically important roles in helping individuals confront racism and deal with its effects on their health and reducing inequity more broadly. This Core’s objectives are centered on how supports from communities, peers, and families impact and can best be mobilized to promote substantive positive changes in the lives and health of those affected by diabetes. The Core is an outgrowth of the Michigan-UNC Peer Support Core, funded through the Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research, 2016-21. It continues the Peer Support Core’s emphasis on the variety of peers and peer support approaches and the processes that undergird them, while expanding on these to include families and communities. With its national focus, the Core will serve colleagues at the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and diabetes researchers across the US. This will include individual consultation to researchers and on research projects, national outreach, and facilitation such as through webinars and annual research workshops of a national Special Interest Group of researchers interested in the contributions of and interactions among community, peer, and family supports for reducing inequity in diabetes prevention and management.