Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core

核心E：外展、招聘和参与核心：摘要： 阿尔茨海默病(AD)是一种 巨大的公共卫生问题及其日益增长的流行率要求与AD相关的疾病随之增加 外展、研究招募和社区参与。响应当地需求评估和 呼吁在州(宾夕法尼亚州阿尔茨海默氏症计划)和联邦(国家阿尔茨海默氏症项目法案)层面采取行动， 我们为拟议的支助期确定了以下具体目标：目标1)保持有效 并发起新的社区参与活动，以响应当地利益相关者的需求并解决 阿尔茨海默病研究和护理方面的区域和国家优先事项；目的2)促进招募 在AD谱的最早端进入临床核心和辅助研究的不同参与者；以及目标 3)培训健康专业人员和健康科学专业的学生尽早诊断人 ADRD谱的结束，重点是a)尖端生物标记物研究和b) 关于阿尔茨海默病异质性的新证据和循证治疗方法 现在和未来的基于社区的提供者。我们将通过一个 研究战略，包括创新编程，并建立在我们过去最大成功的基础上 好几年了。目标1计划的活动的主要例子包括与关键的公民和社会组织合作 服务组织，维持社区咨询委员会，发展基于邻里的参与 节目范围从社区礼堂的系列讲座到黑人拥有和广告的弹出窗口 经营的机构。Aim 2的例子包括彻底修改我们的招聘消息，以保持一致 突出非洲裔美国人在临床核心的研究参与叙事，并编织这样的 将叙事编入广泛的数字和印刷材料中。目标3的主要重点是发展和 提供现场跨专业临床培训，以及向更大的 专业观众与UPMC、阿尔茨海默氏症协会和大学的HRSA合作- 资助的老年工作人口提升计划(目标3)。这些以及我们研究战略的其他要素 将使用跟踪数据的数量和特征等方法进行持续评估 我们计划的参与者(社区、学生和专业人员)，管理反馈表和/或预 向每组学习者发布活动调查，并监控签约的个人数量 PIT-ADRC在社区演示后或因此而接收信息或联系 与社区团体、提供者和其他研究合作者建立特定的伙伴关系。

Core E: Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core: Abstract: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an enormous public health problem and its increasing prevalence demands a concomitant increase in AD-related outreach, research recruitment, and community engagement. In response to a local needs assessment and calls for action at the state (PA State Alzheimer’s Plan) and federal (National Alzheimer’s Project Act) levels, we have identified the following specific aims for the proposed period of support: Aim 1) To sustain effective and initiate new community engagement activities that are responsive to local stakeholder needs and address regional and national priorities in Alzheimer’s disease research and care; Aim 2) To facilitate recruitment of diverse participants at the earliest end of the AD spectrum into the Clinical Core and ancillary studies; and Aim 3) To train health professionals and students of the health sciences in the diagnosis of persons at the earliest end of the ADRD spectrum with an emphasis on translating a) cutting edge biomarker research and b) emerging evidence regarding the heterogeneous nature of AD and evidence-based treatment approaches to community based providers of the present and future. We will achieve these interrelated aims through a research strategy that includes innovative programming and builds on our biggest successes over the past several years. Primary examples of planned activities for Aim 1 include partnering with key civic and social service organizations, maintaining a community advisory council, developing neighborhood-based engagement programs ranging from a lecture series in a community auditorium to AD “pop ups” in Black owned and operated establishments. Examples for Aim 2 include overhauling our recruitment messaging to consistently highlight the research participation narratives of African Americans in the Clinic Core and weaving such narratives into a wide range of digital and print materials. The primary foci of Aim 3 are developing and delivering on-site interprofessional clinical training, as well as continuing education programs to larger professional audiences in partnership with UPMC, the Alzheimer’s Association and the University’s HRSA- funded Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Project (Aim 3). These and other elements of our research strategy will be evaluated on an ongoing basis using such methods as tracking the number and characteristics of participants in our programs (community, student, and professional), administering feedback forms and/or pre- post activity surveys to each group of learners, and monitoring the number of individuals who sign up to receive information or be contacted by the PITT-ADRC either following community presentations, or as a result of specific partnerships with community groups, providers, and other research collaborators.