Inter-city study of community engagement in parks, children and adolescent health

社区参与公园、儿童和青少年健康的城市间研究

• 批准号: 8235453
• 负责人: Diana Hernandez
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8235453
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Advocacy; Advocate; Americas; Businesses; Child; Cities; Collaborations; Communities; Community Participation; Development; Ensure; Exposure to; Funding; Future; Goals; Group Meetings; Growth; Head; Health; Health Promotion; Health Resources; Individual; Intervention; Language; Laws; Life; Life Style; Literature; Longevity; Measures; Minority; Mission; Nature; Neighborhoods; New York City; Obesity; Outcome; Play; Population; Public Health; Public Health Practice; Public Health Schools; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Research Priority; Research Project Grants; Research Proposals; Resource Sharing; Resources; Role; Series; Site; Social Interaction; Solutions; System; Trust; United States; Violence; Work; base; community based participatory research; design; disorder prevention; follow-up; health disparity; improved; interest; meetings; member; public health relevance; sedentary; theories; violence prevention; working group; youth violence prevention

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The public health literature supports the importance of exposure to nature and health, the role of safe parks in promoting active living and the need for deep resident engagement in the creation of healthy communities. There is less evidence on the public health practices and park-based interventions that are most effective in the promotion of parks revitalization and the wide-spread use of parks across the life span. Furthermore, the free resource of parks is critical to health of poor and minority neighborhoods but those parks are often least well maintained. Because large urban parks present in the vast majority of US cities, this is a significant resource, often overlooked by public health practitioners. Thus, there is a critical need to identify ways in which collaboration and resource-sharing can be used to enhance parks as a site of health promotion and disease prevention. This project will advance the ways in which parks advocates from New York City, NY, and Pittsburgh, PA, partner with an academic center to conduct research. In order to launch this research partnership, we propose to work together over the next three years to develop a common language and a common research agenda. Our research hypothesis is: a series of meetings with three groups - parks advocates, community residents and researchers - will permit the development of a shared language about health and parks and a shared research agenda. We believe that the improvement of parks and public spaces will encourage residents to become more physically, socially and civically active, resulting in the reduction in negative health outcomes, especially obesity. Furthermore, the year round increased use of parks and the diversification of activities will, in turn, make these spaces safer and less violence-ridden. We propose to do this by building upon existing relationships among an academic center and three parks advocacy groups: the Columbia Center for Youth Violence Prevention, CLIMB, the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy (PA), and Partnerships for Parks (NY). Through a series of community forums, key stakeholders meetings and CBPR Advisory Board colloquia, we will develop a common language for our concerns and a common agenda for research. The resulting long-term CBPR agenda will be used to design studies that assess and measure the impact of current and future parks-based interventions developed with community participation. The project will be evaluated by documenting the growth of the CBPR Advisory Board (organizations involved), the strength and quality of the relationships among partners (content of Memoranda of Understanding) and the number of follow up research projects proposed and successfully funded. Our topic and CBPR approach are fueled by the shared interest of parks advocates and researchers in understanding how parks can be part of the nascent national effort to end health disparities. Public Health Relevance: This project is relevant to public health because it will help develop ways in which a publicly available resource - parks - can be used to promote health at the neighborhood level. Efforts geared at the individual to help reduce obesity or prevent violence are important but not sufficient to address these two health problems. This project is relevant to all the people served by the national system of large urban parks. This project has relevance for the national campaign against obesity, for active living, against violence, and for the elimination of health disparities.

描述（由申请人提供）：公共卫生文献支持了暴露于自然和健康的重要性，安全公园在促进积极生活中的作用以及在建立健康社区中深入居住的需求。关于公共卫生实践和基于公园的干预措施的证据较少，这些干预措施最有效地促进公园振兴，并且在整个寿命中广泛使用公园。此外，公园的自由资源对于贫穷和少数民族社区的健康至关重要，但是这些公园通常维护得最不受欢迎。由于美国绝大多数城市都有大型城市公园，因此这是一个重要的资源，通常被公共卫生从业人员所忽视。因此，迫切需要确定可以使用协作和资源共享来增强公园作为健康促进和疾病预防的场所的方法。该项目将推动纽约市纽约市和宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡的公园倡导者与学术中心进行研究的方式。为了建立这种研究合作伙伴关系，我们建议在未来三年内共同努力，以开发一种通用语言和共同的研究议程。我们的研究假设是：与三个小组的一系列会议 - 公园倡导者，社区居民和研究人员 - 将允许开发有关健康和公园以及共同研究议程的共同语言。我们认为，公园和公共场所的改善将鼓励居民在身体，社会和社会上变得更加活跃，从而减少了负面健康结果，尤其是肥胖。此外，全年的公园使用使用，活动的多元化将使这些空间更安全，更少的暴力危机。我们建议通过建立学术中心和三个公园倡导组织之间的现有关系来做到这一点：哥伦比亚青年预防暴力中心，攀登，匹兹堡公园保护区（PA）和公园合作伙伴关系（纽约）。通过一系列社区论坛，主要利益相关者会议和CBPR顾问委员会的讲话，我们将开发出一种公共语言，以解决我们的关注点，并进行研究的共同议程。由此产生的长期CBPR议程将用于设计研究和衡量通过社区参与而开发的基于公园和未来的干预措施的影响。该项目将通过记录CBPR顾问委员会（涉及的组织）的增长，合作伙伴之间关系的实力和质量（理解的备忘录）以及提议并成功资助的后续研究项目的数量来评估该项目。公园倡导者和研究人员的共同利益推动了我们的主题和CBPR方法，以了解公园如何成为最终国家努力以结束健康差异的一部分。 公共卫生相关性：该项目与公共卫生有关，因为它将有助于开发可公开可用的资源（公园）来促进邻里健康的方式。为个人努力减少肥胖或预防暴力的努力很重要，但不足以解决这两个健康问题。该项目与大型城市公园国家系统所服务的所有人员有关。该项目与全国反对肥胖症，积极生活，反对暴力以及消除健康差异的运动相关。