Recruiting & Retaining Older African Americans into Research (ROAR)

摘要 招募和留住年长的非洲裔美国人进入研究(ROAR)项目旨在开发 并传播有效的战略，以招募、保留和促进参与与健康相关的研究 在非裔美国老年人中。该项目建立在20年来成功努力的基础上，参与和 为密歇根州底特律的老年社区成员提供健康促进计划 城市非裔美国人老龄化研究中心(MCUAAAR)是 密歇根大学、韦恩州立大学，以及最近的密歇根州立大学。在…的中心 目前的MCUAAAR研究招聘基础设施是一个非裔美国人社区咨询委员会 老年人，住在密歇根州底特律的MCUAAAR更健康的黑人老年人中心。这个顾问委员会开会 定期审查和批准研究人员的研究申请，他们希望从 底特律1400名老年非裔美国人的参与研究登记，他们同意被联系到 参与社会科学研究。顾问委员会还提供关于MCUAAAR社区的反馈 编程，并接受关于如何评估和解释社会科学研究的指导。这个 由詹姆斯·杰克逊博士和杰米·米切尔博士领导的MCUAAAR团队将利用基于社区的参与性 通过以下方式大幅扩大现有基础设施的征聘和留用能力的办法 实现以下三个目标，并有相应的方法和结果。首先，我们将与当地 社区合作伙伴，以招募、培训和建立一个非裔美国老年人研究咨询委员会 密歇根州弗林特的成年人在为未来的弗林特参与者研究登记服务。建立一项研究 密歇根州弗林特的非裔美国老年人顾问委员会，得到了新的和现有的支持 社区伙伴关系，将为建立未来的研究登记处提供社区驱动的基础设施 调查人员可以申请利用与底特律现有登记类似的老年人的姓名。接下来，我们将 从现有的底特律和新的弗林特社区咨询委员会和其他利益攸关方那里获得意见 技术设计、内容和用户界面、男性招聘资源，以及推出 互动招聘网站。这个网站将为公众提供研究方面的教育资源。 参与，关于如何加入登记处的信息，利用登记处的国家卫生研究院相关研究的特点， 针对男性研究人员招聘以及研究人员的管理工具和最佳做法的部分 与少数族裔老年人一起工作。最后，我们将评估网站的可达性、可用性和可接受性 与一系列年长的非裔美国人以及三个城市的学术和临床研究人员一起 展示该战略在特定人群中的有效性，以及如何建立一个新的社区- 可以根据其他环境和地理区域调整基于登记册的资源和相应的资源。

ABSTRACT The Recruiting and Retaining Older African Americans into Research (ROAR) project is designed to develop and disseminate effective strategies to recruit, retain, and promote participation in health-related research among African American older adults. This project builds upon 20 years of successful efforts to engage and provide health promotion programming for older adult community members in Detroit, MI through the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR), a collaborative partnership between The University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and most recently, Michigan State University. At the center of the current MCUAAAR research recruitment infrastructure is a Community Advisory Board of African American older adults, housed at MCUAAAR's Healthier Black Elders Center in Detroit, MI. This advisory board meets regularly to review and provide approval for research applications from investigators who want to sample from a Participant Research Registry of 1400 older African Americans in Detroit who have agreed to be contacted to participate in social science research. The advisory board also provides feedback on MCUAAAR community programming and receives instruction on how to evaluate and interpret social science research. The MCUAAAR team, led by Dr. James Jackson and Dr. Jamie Mitchell, will utilize community-based participatory approaches to significantly expand the recruitment and retention capabilities of the current infrastructure by achieving the following three aims with corresponding methods and outcomes. First, we will engage local community partners in order to recruit, train and establish a research advisory board of African American older adults in Flint, Michigan in service of a future Flint Participant Research Registry. Establishing a research advisory board of African American older adults in Flint, Michigan with the support of new and existing community partnerships, will provide the community-driven infrastructure for building a future research registry of older adults in Flint that investigators can apply to utilize similar to the existing Detroit registry. Next, we will gain input from both the existing Detroit and new Flint community advisory boards and other stakeholders on the technological design, content and user interface, resources for male recruitment, and launch of an interactive recruitment website. This website will feature educational resources for the public on research participation, information on how to join the registries, features of NIH-relevant research utilizing the registries, a section targeting men's research recruitment, and administrative tools and best practices for researchers working with minority older adults. Finally, we will evaluate the reach, usability, and acceptability of the website with a range of older African Americans and academic and clinical researchers in three cities in order to demonstrate the strategy's effectiveness with specific populations and how to establishing a new community- based registry and corresponding resources can be adapted for other settings and geographical areas.