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

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）： 每十个北卡罗来纳州人中就有四个人一生中会患上癌症。 显然，癌症是一个主要的健康问题，也是主要的健康差异，不仅在性别和种族差异方面，而且在地理上也是如此。 卡罗莱纳州社区网络 (CCN) 的使命是通过利用长期的大学社区关系和北卡罗来纳大学基于社区的参与性研究专业知识来减少成年非裔美国人中前列腺癌、乳腺癌和结直肠癌的差异，以加强和扩展癌症教育和研究、研究培训以及世俗和信仰社区的癌症健康政策。 具体来说，CCN 将： 向研究人员和社区成员提供关于癌症健康差异和改善这些差异的方法的教育；培训一支由学术和社区研究人员组成的骨干队伍，以实施和传播最佳的癌症预防和干预实践；开展基于社区的参与性研究；改变社区居民的治疗和寻求护理模式，并确定癌症预防和治疗领域卫生政策的制定或修改领域，以最终消除北卡罗来纳州的癌症健康差距。 卡罗莱纳州社区网络将形成一系列癌症教育和癌症研究项目，这些项目将在世俗和信仰社区环境中进行定制和试点。 CCN 的长期目标是： 1) 提高有益癌症干预措施的利用率； 2）增加临床试验和其他形式研究中的少数群体数量； 3) 加强社区对癌症差异和治疗的认识； 4）影响癌症预防和控制政策。 由于北卡罗来纳大学基于社区的参与性研究专业知识的深度和广度、基于信仰和世俗的社区合作伙伴的可用性以及与社区团体建立的联系，卡罗莱纳社区网络处于解决这些癌症健康差异的有利位置。