A CBPR Approach to Biomedical & Behavioral Health Communication with Farmworkers

描述（由申请人提供）：移徙和季节性农场工人及其家人面临许多环境和职业健康危害，他们受伤和患病的比例很高。记录农场工人所经历的健康危害和疾病的工作已经扩大。然而，农场工人参与开展针对其健康危害和疾病的研究，以及以他们能够理解和使用的形式向农场工人传播研究成果的工作仍然有限。我们建议由农场工人倡导网络（FAN）组成的社区组织和机构的现有框架与维克森林大学医学院（WFUSM）的卫生科学家之间建立伙伴关系。我们在本申请中提出的基于社区的参与式研究（CBPR）伙伴关系基于两个原则。首先，农场工人及其社区组织应与卫生科学家合作，选择和开展解决农场工人健康问题的研究。第二个原则是，农场工人应该了解生物医学和行为科学的结果，以便他们能够更好地利用这些知识来改善他们的健康和生活质量。作为实施这些原则的第一步，该项目将实现三个具体目标；我们将(1)为FAN社区组织和机构与WFUSM之间的持续合作制定框架；(2)建立FAN社区组织和机构参与移民和季节性农场工人健康和生活质量研究的能力，并建立WFUSM卫生科学家与社区利益相关者有效沟通的能力；(3)确定、实施和评估向流动和季节性农场工人传播卫生科学成果的有效方法。在本项目结束时，农联/农联的伙伴关系将能够有效地合作开展关于农场工人健康的研究，并以他们可以使用的形式将这项研究的结果传达给农场工人。农委会和农妇基金的伙伴关系还将能够利用其合作，将其研究成果转化为政策参考，从而改善影响农场工人健康和生活质量的法规。移徙和季节性农场工人及其家庭面临许多环境和职业健康危害，他们受伤和患病的比例很高。扩大了记录农场工人所经历的健康危害和疾病的工作；然而，农场工人参与开展针对其健康危害和疾病的研究，以及以他们能够理解和使用的形式向农场工人传播研究成果的工作仍然有限。这项研究的结果将为农场工人倡导网络/维克森林大学医学院的伙伴关系提供一个框架，以便在解决农场工人健康问题的研究中进行有效合作，并以他们可以使用的形式将这项研究的结果传达给农场工人。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families are exposed to numerous environmental and occupational health hazards, and they experience high rates of injuries and illnesses. Efforts to document the health hazards and illnesses that farmworkers experience have expanded. However, the involvement of farmworkers in the conduct of research that addresses their health hazards and illnesses, and the communication of research results to farmworkers in forms that they can understand and use remains limited. We propose a partnership between an existing framework of the community-based organizations and agencies that comprise the Farmworker Advocacy Network (FAN) and health scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM). The community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership we propose in this application is based on two principles. The first is that farmworkers and their community-based organizations should collaborate with health scientists in selecting and conducting research that addresses farmworker health. The second principle is that farmworkers should understand the results of biomedical and behavioral science so that they can better use this knowledge to improve their health and quality of life. As a first step toward implementing these principles, this project will achieve three specific aims; we will (1) develop a framework for ongoing collaboration between FAN community-based organizations and agencies and WFUSM; (2) build the capabilities among FAN community-based organizations and agencies to participate in research on the health and quality of life of migrant and seasonal farmworkers, and build the capacity of WFUSM health scientists to effectively communicate with community stakeholders; and (3) identify, implement and evaluate effective approaches to communicate the results of health science to migrant and seasonal farmworkers. At the end of this project, the FAN/WFUSM partnership will be in a position to collaborate effectively in the conduct of research addressing farmworker health and to communicate the results of this research to farmworkers in a form that they can use. The FAN and WFUSM partnership will also be in a position to use their collaboration to translate their research results to inform policy that will improve regulations that affect the health and quality of life of farmworkers. Migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families are exposed to numerous environmental and occupational health hazards, and they experience high rates of injuries and illnesses. Efforts to document the health hazards and illnesses that farmworkers experience have expanded; however, the involvement of farmworkers in the conduct of research that addresses their health hazards and illnesses, and the communication of research results to farmworkers in forms that they can understand and use remains limited. The results of this research will provide a framework for the Farmworker Advocacy Network / Wake Forest University School of Medicine partnership to collaborate effectively in the conduct of research addressing farmworker health and to communicate the results of this research to farmworkers in a form that they can use.