Petersburg Wellness Consortium

描述(由申请人提供)：这项计划拨款建议使用基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)方法来进行需求评估，以计划有效、全面的干预措施，以解决弗吉尼亚州彼得堡受影响社区以肥胖为中心的健康问题。虽然彼得堡是一个严重缺乏服务和经济困难的社区，但它也是一个拥有潜在资产的社区，可以用来弥补其健康差距。一项关键资产是该市领导层和许多社区、公民、商业和社区组织共同认识到解决糟糕的健康结果的迫切性。我们提出了一种多管齐下的混合方法，通过探索肥胖的流行来解决令人难以置信的糟糕的健康结果。彼得堡健康联盟将由社区卫生领导委员会(CHLC)和健康大使(WAS)组成。WAS是非专业人士、活跃的社区居民、致力于改善社区健康状况的男性和女性。进行全面需求评估的方法包括资产测绘、焦点小组和内部聊天，最终将举行一次大型市政厅会议(N=300)，其中包括剧院艺术部分，以传播数据并就干预措施达成共识。推动需求评估的主要研究问题是：1)确定对解决肥胖问题至关重要的力量和资源；2)社会文化对肥胖的看法；3)确定以家庭、社区为基础的、可以在全市范围内支持的干预措施，以增加身体健康和改善营养选择。具体目标包括建立和评估彼得堡健康联盟解决肥胖问题的有效性；根据社区从多种来源提供的信息进行需求评估；第三，开发和实施一项试点干预措施，解决个人、家庭、社区和社会因素，以激励社区增加体育活动，改善营养选择和选择，以减少肥胖。 相关性(见说明)：肥胖是全国以及彼得堡市的主要健康差距问题。彼得堡健康联盟的建立是一个学术和社区合作伙伴关系，旨在解决肥胖问题，将其作为许多其他严重健康并发症的跳板，这在缩小健康差距方面具有很大潜力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This planning grant proposes to use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to conduct a needs assessment to plan an effective, comprehensive intervention to address the health concerns centered around obesity in the affected community of Petersburg, Virginia. While Petersburg is a community that is vastly underserved and economically distressed, it is also a community with assets that can potentially be mobilized to remediate its health disparities. A key asset is the collective recognition among the City's leadership and the many neighborhood, civic, business and community organizations of the imperative to address poor health outcomes. We propose a multipronged, mixed methods approach to address the incredibly poor health outcomes by exploring the epidemic of obesity. The Petersburg Wellness Consortium will consist of the Community Health Leadership Council (CHLC) and Wellness Ambassadors (WAs). WAs are lay persons, active community residents, men and women who are committed to improving health outcomes in their community. The methods to conduct a comprehensive needs assessment include asset mapping, focus groups, and house chats that will culminate with a large town hall meeting (N=300) with a theater arts component to disseminate the data and reach consensus on the intervention. The major research questions that will drive the needs assessment are: 1) identifying the strengths and resources that is critical for addressing obesity; 2) social-cultural perceptions of obesity; and 3 identifying interventions that are family based, community wide and that can be supported City wide to increase physical fitness and improve nutritional choices. Specific aims include establishing and evaluating the effectiveness of the Petersburg Wellness Consortium to address obesity; conducting a needs assessment informed by community input from multiple sources, and third, developing and implementing a pilot intervention that will address individual, family, community, and societal factors to galvanize the community to increase physical activity and improve nutritional choices and options that will reduce obesity. RELEVANCE (See instructions): Obesity is major health disparity concern nationally as well as in the City of Petersburg. The establishment of the Petersburg Wellness Consortium, an academic-community partnership to address obesity as a springboard to many other serious health complications has strong potential to reduce health disparities.