Academic Community Partnerships for CBPR on Social Media & Digital Communication

描述（由申请人提供）：本学术-社区合作会议系列资助提案描述了一个主要的学术健康中心（佛罗里达大学/山茨-杰克逊维尔）将如何与一个关键的社区组织（杜瓦尔县卫生局）合作，利用基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）的原则，以解决主要的健康差距。我们在减少健康差距方面的最初重点将是使用对与这些人群中的肥胖症有关的少数群体青少年和年轻人最有效的外联和信息传播技术。这一建设能力的方法将在三年内实施。我们的具体目标围绕两个目标：1）利用本会议合作协议创建CBPR基础设施，以支持使用社区参与原则和社区参与选择，设计和实施解决社区关注问题的研究，（2）利用这一会议合作协议机制，教育和告知社区合作伙伴如何与青少年和年轻人进行外联和传播，特别是与肥胖有关的疾病。具体目标是：1）创建一个社区咨询委员会，与研究人员合作开展全方位的研究活动，从研究计划的选择到结果的解释和传播; 2）执行佛罗里达大学/杰克逊维尔尚兹健康科学中心之间的谅解备忘录，健康公平和质量研究中心和杜瓦尔县卫生部作为一个关键的社区组织，具有经验和承诺（3）运用CBPR的原则和实践，确定社区对社区主要健康差异的关注领域;（4）制定和实施评估CBPR的有效性;（5）教育和告知社区成员如何设计和实施关于健康差距的研究，特别强调建设社区参与和协作的能力，以及（6）举办研讨会，为社区举办讲习班和论坛，以调查和深入了解社区接触与肥胖有关的青少年和年轻人的最有效机制，作为基于社区实质性关注的CBPR初步重点领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series grant proposal describes how a major academic health center (University of Florida/Shands-Jacksonville) will partner with a key community organization (Duval County Health Department) to utilize principles of community based participatory research (CBPR) to address major health disparities. Our initial focus on health disparity reduction will be on the use of techniques of outreach and information dissemination that are most effective with minority adolescents and young adults related to obesity in those populations. This approach to building on CBPR capacity will be implemented over three years. Our specific aims are organized around two goals: 1) to use this conference cooperative agreement to create a CBPR infrastructure to support the use of principles of community engagement and involvement of community in the selection, design and implementation of research that addresses issues of concern to the community, 2) to use this conference cooperative agreement mechanism to educate and inform community partners on outreach and dissemination with adolescents and young adults, particularly related to obesity. The specific aims are to: 1) Create a Community Advisory Board that will collaborate with researchers on the full range of research activities from selection of the research initiative to interpretation and dissemination of the results; 2) Execute an MOU between the University of Florida/Shands Health Science Center-Jacksonville, Center for Health Equity and Quality Research and the Duval County Health Department as a pivotal community organization with experience and commitment for organizing and mobilizing a wide range of community partners to address major community problems; 3) Use the principles and practices of CBPR to identify the community's perceived areas of interest concerning major health disparities in the community; 4) Develop and implement an evaluation to assess the effectiveness of the CBPR; 5) Educate and inform community members on designing and implementing research on health disparities, with particular emphasis on building capacity for community participation and collaboration, and 6) Provide seminars, workshops and forums for the community to investigate and develop insights into the most effective mechanisms for the community to reach adolescents and young adults related to obesity, as an initial CBPR area of focus based on substantial community concern.