Westchester Square Partnership

描述（由申请人提供）：威彻斯特广场合伙企业。该提案描述了一个以社区为基础的参与性研究项目，该项目将重点研究布朗克斯一个孟加拉国社区妇女的常见精神障碍。对南亚散居社区的研究表明，女性的痛苦、抑郁和自残程度很高，同时服务利用率很低。有证据表明，服务使用率低可能与标准精神病学治疗与社区精神疾病解释模型之间缺乏概念同步性有关。拟议的CBPR项目将发展社区伙伴关系，以解决布朗克斯孟加拉国妇女的CMD问题。目标是开发一种与妇女对疾病和护理的看法同步的干预模式。项目计划小组由研究人员、临床服务提供者和纽约市一个为南亚人服务的社区服务组织组成。我们将从社区中招募10名孟加拉妇女作为合作伙伴。研究将集中于几个相关的任务：1)发展伙伴关系，2)概念化待调查的问题；3)评估社区的需要和资产；4)选择一种干预措施来解决问题；5)评估合作关系，6)建立社区顾问委员会。在为期两年的项目结束时，我们将开发R01应用程序来实施和测试本初步研究中选择的干预措施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Westchester Square Partnership. This proposal describes a community-based participatory research project that will focus on common mental disorder (CMD) among women in a Bangladeshi community in the Bronx. Studies of South Asian diasporic communities report high levels of distress, depression, and self harm among women, along with very low rates of service utilization. Evidence suggests that low service use may be related to the lack of conceptual synchrony between standard psychiatric treatments and explanatory models of mental illness in the community. The proposed CBPR project will develop a community partnership to address the problem of CMD in Bronx Bangladeshi women. The goal is to develop an intervention model that synchronizes with women's perceptions of illness and care. The project planning group consists of researchers, clinical service providers, and a community service organization serving South Asians in New York City. We will recruit 10 Bangladeshi women from the community as partners. The study will focus on several related tasks: 1) developing the partnership, 2) conceptualizing the problem to be investigated; 3) conducting an assessment of community needs and assets; 4) choosing an intervention to address the problem; 5) evaluating the partnership, and 6) developing a community advisory board. Towards the end of the 2-year project period, we will develop an R01 application to implement and test the intervention selected in this preliminary study.