Community Liaison and Recruitment Core

社区联络和招聘核心

• 批准号: 10219046
• 负责人: MARTHA R CROWTHER
• 金额: $ 1.97万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10219046
• 关键词: Address; Advocacy; African American; Aging; Alabama; Area; Behavior; Church; Clinical Research; Communities; Community Health; Deep South; Development; Discrimination; Economics; Elderly; Family; Fostering; Goals; Health; Health Promotion; Health behavior; Individual; Infrastructure; Institution; Institutional Policy; Intervention; Kinship Networks; Knowledge; Mentors; Minority; Morehouse School of Medicine; Participant; Politics; Religious Belief; Research; Research Project Grants; Resources; Role; Route; Rural; Rural Community; Science; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Scientist; System; Testing; Textiles; Theory of Change; Training; Universities; Urban Community; Work; base; behavior change; catalyst; cohort; community engagement; community involvement; cultural values; design; education research; evidence base; experience; member; public health relevance; racism; recruit; research study; retention rate; rural African American; social; theories; tool

Project Summary/Abstract – Community Liaison and Recruitment Core The Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) is a collaborative of four unique Southern institutions with complementary strengths: The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Morehouse School of Medicine, Tuskegee University, and The University of Alabama. The primary objectives of the Community Liaison and Recruitment Core (CLRC) are to (1) educate, train, and mentor Scientists in theory- based approaches to engaging older African Americans (AAs) in health-related research, (2) assist RCMAR Scientists in recruiting older AAs into their research studies, and (3) build a sustainable infrastructure that will generate and disseminate new knowledge regarding the science of recruitment and retention. Our approach to recruitment and retention draws upon research that addresses the role of culture in promoting health among older AAs. Older AAs rely, to a greater extent, on their minority segregated communities, their cultural values, and their kinship systems to receive health information. In addition to family and extended kinship networks, older AAs place high value on their religious beliefs and practices. Because of this, recruitment and retention endeavors should reflect this rich cultural fabric and employ strategies that are theory-based and culturally relevant. In this application, we build upon our existing rural and urban community-based infrastructure that has fostered community capacity for active engagement in clinical research and has served as a catalyst to increase participation of older AAs in health-related research studies. We envision continued mutually beneficial engagement, fostering opportunities both for the CLRC and RCMAR Scientists to solicit community input on the development of potential research questions and for community members to enjoy enhanced access to state-of-the-art clinical research focused on older AAs. To accomplish these broader goals, we propose the following specific aims for the Community Liaison and Recruitment Core of the Deep South RCMAR: (1) Work collaboratively with the Research Education Component (REC) to educate, train, and mentor RCMAR Scientists regarding the theory and approach to community engagement and assist RCMAR Scientists in recruiting older AAs to their research studies; (2) Advance scientific knowledge in the area of recruitment and retention of older urban and rural AAs by empirically testing recruitment and retention strategies developed in partnership with community members; (3) Expand capacity for community-academic partnerships to support the recruitment and retention of older urban and rural AAs; and (4) Disseminate research findings to the scientific community and the communities we serve. Through the activities of the CLRC, we expect that RCMAR Scientists will continue to have access to evidence-based recruitment and retention tools for both urban and rural older AAs, and realize enhanced participation of older AAs, greater community “buy-in” to research projects, and clearer routes of dissemination and intervention sustainability.

项目摘要/摘要 - 社区联络和招聘核心 深南方少数民族老化研究中心（RCMAR）是四个独特的合作者 具有完整优势的南部机构：阿拉巴马大学伯明翰，莫尔豪斯 塔斯基吉大学医学院和阿拉巴马大学。的主要对象 社区联络和招聘核心（CLRC）是（1）理论教育，培训和心理科学家 - 基于与健康相关研究的年长非裔美国人（AAS）的方法，（2）协助RCMAR 科学家在招募年长的AAS研究研究中，以及（3）建立可持续的基础设施将 产生并传播有关招聘和保留科学的新知识。我们的方法 招聘和保留率借鉴了研究文化在促进健康中的作用的研究 年龄较大的AAS。年龄较大 以及他们接收健康信息的亲属系统。除了家庭和扩展亲属网络外， 较旧的AA为他们的宗教信仰和实践赋予了很高的价值。因此，招募和保留 努力应反映出基于理论和文化的这种丰富的文化结构和员工策略 相关的。在此应用程序中，我们建立在现有的农村和城市社区基础设施的基础上 已经培养了社区积极参与临床研究的能力，并一直是催化剂 增加了较老的AA参与与健康相关的研究。我们设想相互互动 有益的参与，为CLRC和RCMAR科学家培养机会，以征求社区 有关潜在研究问题的发展的投入，并供社区成员享受增强 访问最先进的临床研究的重点是较旧的AAS。为了实现这些更广泛的目标，我们 提案以下具体目标是社区联络和招聘核心的核心 RCMAR：（1）与研究教育部分（REC）合作以教育，培训和 导师RCMAR科学家关于社区参与的理论和方法并协助RCMAR 科学家招募年长的AA进行研究； （2）在该领域提高科学知识 通过经验测试招募和保留率，招募和保留较老的城市和粗糙AAS 与社区成员合作制定的策略； （3）扩大社区学术的能力 伙伴关系以支持招募和保留年长的城市和粗糙AA； （4）传播 对科学界和我们服务的社区的研究结果。通过 CLRC，我们希望RCMAR科学家将继续获得基于证据的招聘和 为城市和粗糙的AAS保留工具，并实现增强的年龄较大的AA的参与，更大 社区“买入”研究项目，以及更清晰的传播和干预可持续性途径。