Core F - Minority Engagement Core

核心 F - 少数群体参与核心

• 批准号: 9151163
• 负责人: Monica Willis Parker
• 金额: $ 26.84万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-06-01 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9151163
• 关键词: Address; Affect; African American; Alzheimer' s Disease; American; Area; Attention; Autopsy; Award; Cardiovascular system; Caregivers; Church; Clinical; Clinical Trials; Cognitive; Communities; Country; County; Coupled; Dementia; Diabetes Mellitus; Education; Elderly; Enrollment; Evaluation; Event; Family Caregiver; Fostering; Future; Gifts; Goals; Grant; Growth; Health system; High Prevalence; Home environment; Human Resources; Impaired cognition; Individual; Individual Differences; Institution; Intervention; Life; Metabolic; Minority; Minority Groups; Outcomes Research; Participant; Pathway interactions; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Play; Population; Population Growth; Prevalence; Prevention; Prevention strategy; Professional Organizations; Recruitment Activity; Registries; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Risk Factors; Stroke; Training; Trust; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; abstracting; base; brain health; brain research; caregiver education; cohort; community center; community organizations; community partnership; design; empowered; experience; faculty community; follow-up; healthy aging; improved; innovation; member; metropolitan; mild cognitive impairment; normal aging; novel; outreach; peer; programs; racial difference; success; support network; volunteer

Abstract. This application seeks support to add a Minority Engagement Core (MEC), to the Emory University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC). The MEC will expand the activities and capacities of the ADRC to develop and strengthen enduring partnerships with groups and organizations in minority communities in the metropolitan Atlanta area, particularly the African American (AA) community. The MEC is consistent with our ADRC's overall aims (“to understand the causes, investigate novel interventions toward prevention, and improve the treatment of affected individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the well-being of their family caregivers . . . with special attention to inter-individual and racial differences and to nurture community partnerships, particularly with AA leaders, to increase participation in ADRC activities). It is aligned with and will augment the aims and activities of other ADRC Cores (particularly the Clinical and Outreach, Recruitment, and Education Cores). The proposed MEC responds to the continued growth of the AA community in the Atlanta metro area and in the US. In the face of the continued growth of this population and its greater contribution to the population of those living with dementing illnesses (given the apparently higher prevalence among AAs), there is a clear need for research focused on causes of and interventions for AD among AAs. This need, however, plays out against a backdrop of continued difficulties in engaging AA individuals in AD research. The MEC proposes to expand community-ADRC partnerships built on a principal of reciprocal engagement to strengthen confidence and trust in the ADRC and successfully recruit community members into existing/future ADRC research. In parallel, the MEC will enhance the capacity of AA community groups and organizations to promote brain health and cognitive improvement activities among their members. The MEC builds on an expanding local, state, and national network of organizations and institutions in partnership with whom we have implemented outreach and recruitment programs that are yielding an increasing number of AA participants in our UDS cohort and the projects of ADRC researchers, most of which have specific AA recruitment targets. The success of these activities has produced a cycle of expanding demands from the AA community – for additional programming, technical assistance in building capacity to support the healthy aging of local constituents, and training to empower partners to provide such programming. Addressing these demands is key to sustaining and strengthening the trust relationships that will foster the needed increase in the number of AA individuals engaged in ADRC research and brain donation. Addressing these demand will require administrative, coordinating, and technical resources to support effective programs and successful recruiting; the needed resources exceed the capacity of our existing cores. The MEC aims will increase AA recruits into research and will build stronger communities for healthy aging, and the evaluation of its implementation will provide guidance for recruiting in other minority groups and for other ADRCs.

摘要：本申请寻求支持，为埃默里大学添加少数族裔参与核心 (MEC)。 MEC 将扩大阿尔茨海默病研究中心 (ADRC) 的活动和能力。 ADRC 发展并加强与少数民族社区团体和组织的持久伙伴关系 在亚特兰大大都市区，特别是非裔美国人 (AA) 社区，MEC 是一致的。 与我们 ADRC 的总体目标（“了解原因，研究新的预防干预措施， 改善阿尔茨海默病 (AD) 患者的治疗及其福祉 家庭照顾者特别关注个体间和种族差异并培养社区。 伙伴关系，特别是与 AA 领导人的伙伴关系，以增加对 ADRC 活动的参与）。 将增强其他 ADRC 核心的目标和活动（特别是临床和外展、招募、 和教育核心）。拟议的 MEC 响应了 AA 社区的持续发展。 亚特兰大都会区和美国面临人口的持续增长。 痴呆症患者对人口的贡献（鉴于明显较高的患病率） AA 中），显然需要针对 AA 中 AD 的原因和干预措施进行研究。 然而，这种需求是在让 AA 个体参与 AD 持续困难的背景下出现的 MEC 提议扩大基于互惠原则的社区与 ADRC 伙伴关系。 加强对 ADRC 的信心和信任，并成功招募社区成员加入 与此同时，MEC 将增强 AA 社区团体和 ADRC 的能力。 MEC 组织致力于促进其成员的大脑健康和认知改善活动。 建立在不断扩大的地方、州和国家组织和机构网络的基础上，并与 我们已经实施了外展和招聘计划，这些计划正在产生越来越多的 AA 我们的 UDS 队列和 ADRC 研究人员项目的参与者，其中大多数都有特定的 AA 这些活动的成功引发了机管局不断扩大的需求。 社区 – 提供额外的规划和技术援助，以建设支持健康老龄化的能力 当地选民的意见，并进行培训，使合作伙伴能够提供此类规划。 需求是维持和加强信任关系的关键，而信任关系将促进所需的增长 参与 ADRC 研究和大脑捐赠的 AA 人数将满足这些需求。 需要行政、协调和技术资源来支持有效的计划和成功 招聘；所需的资源超出了我们现有核心的能力。 MEC 的目标是增加 AA。 招募人员参与研究，并将建立更强大的健康老龄化社区，及其评估 实施将为其他少数群体和其他 ADRC 的招募提供指导。