COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORE

社区外展核心

• 批准号: 7348274
• 负责人: Shafiq A Khan
• 金额: $ 15.68万
• 依托单位: CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-10-01 至 2012-05-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7348274
• 关键词: Affect; African; African American; Age; Agreement; Americas; Area; Arts; Biological; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Community Health; Community Outreach; Community Services; Country; Death Rate; Development; Diet; Diet and Nutrition; Dietary Factors; Disease; Early Diagnosis; Education; Education and Outreach; Event; Exercise; Exogenous Factors; Focus Groups; Foundations; General Population; Goals; Health; Health Benefit; Health Fairs; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Incidence; Information Dissemination; Institution; Knowledge; Life Style; Location; Malignant neoplasm of prostate; Mass Media; Measures; Mission; Physical activity; Play; Population; Positioning Attribute; Prevention; Preventive; Procedures; Prostate; Purpose; Radio; Rate; Recording of previous events; Research; Risk; Role; Schools; Screening for Prostate Cancer; Screening procedure; Social Work; Socioeconomic Status; Staging; Structure; Universities; Urology; Work; anticancer research; biological research; cooking; good diet; health disparity; instrument; men; mortality; outreach; outreach program; programs; prostate cancer prevention; success; symposium; tumor

Prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates in African-American men are highest in the world compared to the general population. Twice as many African-Americans die of this disease. The reasons for this increased risk for African-American men could be due to inherent biological differences or due to the differences in exogenous factors such as diets, lifestyle, and socio-economic status. We decided to invest efforts in both biological research and community outreach programs to reduce the mortality rate in African- American men because of prostate cancer. Prevention and early detection of the disease are keys to reducing the death rate. Therefore educating the community on preventive measures and regular screenings for prostate cancer are essential in any outreach activity. Due to the lack of expertise at CCRTD, we initiated collaborations with the Whitney M. Young, Jr. School of Social Work, Division of Communication Arts and Midtown Urology Educational Foundation who have a rich history of working in the African- American community and dissemination of information through the mass media. We propose to organize educational programs in collaboration with these entities to provide information to the community about prostate healthy diets, physical activity and early screenings. These programs specifically will be: 1) To organize cook-offs once a year to educate men, specifically those of underrepresented populations, on the health benefits of proper nutrition and diet. 2) To utilize the media outlets (CAU TV and radio stations) for the purpose of providing prostate cancer related educational information to the African-American community in the Atlanta area. 3) To host a community health fair with free health screenings in conjunction with our annual national symposium on prostate cancer. We will develop instruments and statistical procedures to measure the success of these activities. The addition of this new Core will complete the objectives set by CCRTD and Clark Atlanta University.

与美国男性相比，非洲裔美国男性的前列腺癌发病率和死亡率是世界上最高的 普通民众。死于这种疾病的非裔美国人是其两倍。这样做的原因 非裔美国男性的风险增加可能是由于固有的生物学差异或由于 饮食、生活方式和社会经济地位等外源因素的差异。我们决定投资 在生物研究和社区外展计划方面做出努力，以降低非洲人的死亡率 美国男人因为前列腺癌。预防和早期发现疾病是关键 降低死亡率。因此，对社区进行预防措施和定期筛查方面的教育 前列腺癌的预防在任何外展活动中都是必不可少的。由于 CCRTD 缺乏专业知识，我们 与 Whitney M. Young, Jr. 社会工作学院传播系发起合作 艺术和中城泌尿科教育基金会在非洲拥有丰富的工作历史- 美国社区和通过大众媒体传播信息。我们建议组织 与这些实体合作的教育计划，向社区提供有关 前列腺健康饮食、身体活动和早期筛查。这些计划具体是： 1) 每年组织一次烹饪比赛，以教育男性，特别是那些代表性不足的人 人群，了解适当的营养和饮食对健康的益处。 2) 利用媒体（中国农业大学电视台和广播电台）宣传前列腺癌 向亚特兰大地区的非裔美国人社区提供相关教育信息。 3) 结合我们的年度全国健康检查活动举办社区健康博览会并提供免费健康检查 前列腺癌研讨会。 我们将开发工具和统计程序来衡量这些活动的成功。这 这个新核心的加入将完成 CCRTD 和克拉克亚特兰大大学设定的目标。