Carolina Community Network

卡罗莱纳州社区网络

• 批准号: 7065140
• 负责人: PAUL A. GODLEY
• 金额: $ 74.32万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-05-06 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7065140
• 关键词: African American; behavioral /social science research tag; breast neoplasms; cancer prevention; clinical research; colorectal neoplasms; community health services; cooperative study; geographic difference; health care service utilization; health disparity; human subject; neoplasm /cancer education; prostate neoplasms; African American; behavioral /social science research tag; breast neoplasms; cancer prevention; clinical research; colorectal neoplasms; community health services; cooperative study; geographic difference; health care service utilization; health disparity; human subject; neoplasm /cancer education; prostate neoplasms

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Four in every ten North Carolinians will develop cancer during their lives. It is evident that cancer is a major health concern as well as major health disparity, not only with regards to gender and racial differences but geographically as well. The Carolina Community Network (CCN) has set as its mission to reduce prostate, breast and colorectal cancer disparities among adult African Americans by leveraging longstanding university-community relationships and the community-based participatory research expertise at UNC to enhance and extend cancer education and research, research training, and cancer health policy in both secular and faith-based communities. Specifically, the CCN will: educate both researchers and community members about cancer health disparities and methods of ameliorating them; train a cadre of academic and community researchers to implement and disseminate best cancer prevention and intervention practices; conduct community based participatory research; change treatment and care-seeking patterns for residents of the communities and identify areas for the development or modification of health policy in the area of cancer prevention and treatment to ultimately eliminate cancer health disparities in North Carolina. The Carolina Community Network will form a pipeline of cancer education and cancer research projects that will be tailored and piloted in both secular and faith based community settings. The long term goals of the CCN are to: 1) improve utilization of beneficial cancer interventions; 2) increase the number of minorities in clinical trials and other forms of research; 3) strengthen the community's knowledge of cancer disparities and treatment; and 4) impact cancer prevention and control policies. The Carolina Community Network is well positioned to address these cancer health disparities because of the depth and breadth of the community-based participatory research expertise at UNC, the availability of contrasting faith-based and secular community partners, and the established ties to community groups.

描述（由申请人提供）： 北卡罗莱纳州每十个中有四个会在他们的一生中发展癌症。 显然，癌症是主要的健康问题和主要的健康差异，不仅在性别和种族差异方面，而且在地理上也是如此。 卡罗来纳州社区网络（CCN）通过利用长期的大学社区关系以及UNC的基于社区的参与性研究专业知识来减少成年非裔美国人的前列腺，乳房和结直肠癌差异的使命，以增强和扩展基于世俗和基于信仰社区的癌症教育，研究，研究培训，研究培训以及癌症卫生政策。 具体而言，CCN将：对研究人员和社区成员进行癌症健康差异和改善它们的方法的教育；培训一组学术和社区研究人员的干部，以实施和传播最佳的预防癌症和干预措施；进行基于社区的参与性研究；改变社区居民的改变治疗和寻求护理模式，并确定预防癌症和治疗领域制定或修改卫生政策的领域，以最终消除北卡罗来纳州的癌症健康差异。 卡罗来纳州社区网络将构成癌症教育和癌症研究项目的管道，这些项目将在世俗和基于信仰的社区环境中量身定制和试验。 CCN的长期目标是：1）改善对有益癌症干预措施的利用； 2）增加临床试验和其他形式的研究中的少数民族数量； 3）加强社区对癌症差异和治疗的了解； 4）影响预防癌症和控制政策。 由于UNC的社区参与研究专业知识的深度和广度，基于信仰的基于信仰和世俗的社区合作伙伴以及与社区群体的建立联系，因此卡罗来纳州社区网络有能力解决这些癌症健康差异。