Detroit CNP: "Social Network Analysis for CNP Partnerships"

描述(由申请人提供)：我们的底特律社区网络计划(CNP)是一项为期五年的努力，旨在减少乳腺癌、前列腺癌、结直肠癌和肺癌的差异，对大都市地区年长、服务不足的非裔美国成年人造成不利影响。NCI/CRCHD将社区合作伙伴的“网络”视为以社区为基础的参与性研究和干预方法的支柱。伙伴之间的积极沟通是创造积极变化的必要条件；认识和认识到存在相互依存的关系可以推动制定战略，有效地分享现有的卫生、社会和经济资源，以减少差距。我们建议应用网络分析方法来研究我们的CNP的进展，以实证检验对二元关系和重叠二元(聚集成更大的集团和宏观结构)的测量如何影响伙伴关系和潜在的相互依赖的感知。我们试图确定网络分析在多大程度上能够帮助我们监测和跟踪这些重叠伙伴关系在过去两年中的自然发展(和潜在可持续性)。我们的目标是：1.确定使用社交网络分析作为跟踪和监控底特律CNP发展的工具的可行性；2.确定CNP合作伙伴对其网络结构的感知/知识在多大程度上与感知的收益与成本、承诺、社会信任、满意度、CNP拥有感相关；以及3.确定合作伙伴在多大程度上参与资源交换，以可能导致减少癌症健康差距的方式。受访者将从CNP社区伙伴组织的三个小组中招募。我们将在12个月的试点研究期间在两个时间点测量网络。我们将测量几个结构参数和结构，包括关键链接器角色识别、密度/整合、互易性、多重性和距离/区域。基于对社会资本的研究，随着对网络关系和联系的认识的增加，合作伙伴对社会信任、承诺、收益、成本、满意度和对CNP的主人翁意识也可能会增加。结果应该有助于推动更大的R01干预努力，以发展一个可持续的网络，动员社区参与解决城市癌症健康差距的问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our Detroit Community Network Program (CNP) is a five-year effort to reduce disparities in breast, prostate, colorectal and lung cancers adversely affecting our older, underserved African American adults in the metropolitan area. The NCI/CRCHD views "networks" of community partners as the backbone of the community-based participatory research and intervention approach. Active communication between and among partners is a necessary condition for creating positive change; the awareness and recognition that mutually dependent relationships exist can motivate development of strategies for efficiently sharing available health, social, and economic resources to reduce disparities. We propose to apply the network analytic approach to study the progress of our CNP, to empirically examine how measurement of dyadic relationships and overlapping dyads (clustered into larger clique and macro structures) affects perceptions of partnership and potential interdependence. We seek to determine the extent to which network analysis can assist us in monitoring and tracking the natural development (and potential sustainability) of these overlapping partnerships over the last two years of our CNP. Our aims are: 1. to determine the feasibility of using social network analysis as a tool for tracking and monitoring the development of the Detroit CNP; 2. to determine the extent to which CNP partner perceptions/knowledge of the structure of their network relate to perceived benefits vs. costs, commitments, social trust, satisfaction, sense of CNP ownership; and 3. To determine the extent to which partners engage in resource exchange in ways that may likely lead to a reduction in cancer health disparities. Respondents will be recruited from the three groups of CNP community partner organizations. We will measure the network at two points in time over a 12 month period of the pilot study. We will measure several structural parameters and constructs including key linker role identification, density/integration, reciprocity, multiplexity, and distance/zones. Based on the research on social capital, that as awareness of network relationships and ties increase, perceptions of social trust, commitment, benefits, costs, satisfaction, and sense of ownership of the CNP may also increase among partners. Results should help seed a larger R01 intervention effort to develop a sustainable network that mobilizes community-based participation in solutions for addressing urban cancer health disparities.