Melissa Buffalo, Jessica E. Heinzmann, D. Kenyon, Kathryn Blindman, S. Bordeaux, Anita Frederick, Erin Garrison, C. Greensky, Heather Larsen, Tonya Kjerland, Victoria Grey Owl
{"title":"Not a One-Size-Fits-All Approach: Building Tribal Infrastructure for Research Through CRCAIH.","authors":"Melissa Buffalo, Jessica E. Heinzmann, D. Kenyon, Kathryn Blindman, S. Bordeaux, Anita Frederick, Erin Garrison, C. Greensky, Heather Larsen, Tonya Kjerland, Victoria Grey Owl","doi":"10.5820/aian.2602.2019.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.2602.2019.42","url":null,"abstract":"The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health (CRCAIH) was created to foster tribal partnerships in the Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota regions to increase capacity for tribal research. Since 2013, through community engagement and technical assistance from CRCAIH's cores and divisions, seven tribal partners have expanded research infrastructure and recognize the benefits of an established tribal research office. This manuscript showcases the unique approaches individual CRCAIH tribal partners have taken to build tribal research infrastructure. The unique experiences of the CRCAIH tribal partnership holds valuable lessons for other tribes interested in increasing research capacity through research review, regulation, and data management.","PeriodicalId":46147,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84443894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. O'Leary, L. McCormack, Corrine Huber, C. Hockett, Alli Moran, J. Pesicka
{"title":"Developing the Tribal Resource Guide and the Poverty and Culture Training: The We RISE (Raising Income, Supporting Education) Study.","authors":"R. O'Leary, L. McCormack, Corrine Huber, C. Hockett, Alli Moran, J. Pesicka","doi":"10.5820/aian.2602.2019.134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.2602.2019.134","url":null,"abstract":"The We RISE Study aimed to support young American Indian mothers on a tribal reservation by addressing social determinants of health at an individual and community-wide level. To address community-based barriers, the study developed the Tribal Resource Guide, a comprehensive list of available resources that was created through partnerships with community programs and staff. In addition to the guide, the study also developed the Poverty and Culture Training in order to train program staff at numerous community programs to better understand and serve lower socioeconomic and/or Native clients. The two projects facilitated collaboration between community programs and provided tools for programs to address barriers and ultimately better serve their target audience. Despite challenges, the transdisciplinary approach used with the local community maximized potential for success. This process and model could be duplicated in communities with similar demographics, resources, and barriers.","PeriodicalId":46147,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85330353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Transdisciplinary Approach is Essential to Community-based Research with American Indian Populations.","authors":"Jessica E. Heinzmann, Anna C. Simonson, D. Kenyon","doi":"10.5820/aian.2602.2019.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.2602.2019.15","url":null,"abstract":"Social determinants of health and their effects on health outcomes create a complex system, with interaction between social, economic, physical, and biological factors necessitating research take a holistic approach. Transdisciplinary research, one of the three core values of the Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health, seeks to go beyond methods of knowledge production occurring solely within disciplinary boundaries, because real-world societal problems do not adhere to such restrictions. Community involvement is an essential component for successful research partnerships with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. We posit that transdisciplinary approaches, which considers community-level expertise as an equitable component on the research team, show great potential for advancing research in AI/AN communities.","PeriodicalId":46147,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83454456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary: A Movement to Reclaim American Indian Health through Tribal Sovereignty, Community Partnerships, and Growing Tribally-Driven Health Research.","authors":"V. O’Keefe","doi":"10.5820/aian.2602.2019.172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.2602.2019.172","url":null,"abstract":"Indigenous peoples have been engaged in resistance against the destructive effects of colonialism on Indigenous land, lives, all living things, and its impacts on the health and wellbeing of Native peoples since the first arrival of settlers in the Americas. This resistance, at its core, has been a movement to preserve Indigenous peoples, lands, identity, and ways of knowing, learning, respecting, and living harmoniously with the world. In the past half century, the spirit of Indigenous resistance has found its way to the field of health research. Starting with thoughtleaders like Vine Deloria Jr. in 1969, Indigenous scholars have pointed to problematic and harmful research practices that have taken place on tribal lands, and that have sought to expand the Western canon of scientific knowledge without providing solutions to, with, and for Indigenous communities. Since that time, a narrative around collective protection, collaborative research partnerships (i.e., community-based participatory research in all its forms), and tribal sovereignty over research is increasing rapidly. This special issue of American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research takes a giant step forward – beyond a collective resistance against harmful research practices – to a reclamation of collaboration, Indigenous knowledge, strengths, and tribal sovereignty within health research. This group of articles highlights a diverse coalition of tribal communities, transdisciplinary health researchers, academic institutions, community organizations, service providers, and federal agencies that comprise the Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health (CRCAIH; Kenyon et al., this issue). CRCAIH goals include improving AI health through strategic development of tribal research infrastructure and sustainability of health research with a focus on social determinants (Kenyon et al., this issue). Supported by the National Institutes of Health, the CRCAIH provides a promising pathway to eliminate health disparities among AI communities—Oglala Sioux Tribe, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and Spirit Lake Nation—in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest regions.","PeriodicalId":46147,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89643811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing an Indigenous Measure of Overall Health and Well-being: The Wicozani Instrument.","authors":"Heather J. Peters, Teresa R. Peterson","doi":"10.5820/aian.2602.2019.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.2602.2019.96","url":null,"abstract":"A Native community developed the Wicozani Instrument, a 9-item self-report measure, to assess overall health and well-being from an Indigenous epistemology. The Wicozani Instrument measures mental, physical, and spiritual health and their importance to an individual's quality of life. The instrument's validity and reliability was examined through two studies. Study 1 utilized standardized measures from Native (i.e., Awareness of Connectedness Scale) and Western (i.e., Psychological Sense of School Membership and Suicide Ideation Questionnaire) epistemologies with Native and non-Native youth. Study 2 utilized a community created measure (i.e., Indigenous Healing Strategies Scale) with Dakota women. Results suggest the Wicozani Instrument is valid and reliable. The development of an Indigenous measure of overall health and well-being addresses Western atomistic frameworks, which often perpetuate the perception of Native identity as a risk factor for poor health, and works to disrupt the Cycle of Native Health Disparities.","PeriodicalId":46147,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77119408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Kenyon, Melissa Buffalo, Jessica E. Heinzmann, M. Seiber, Dorothy M. Castille, A. Elliott
{"title":"The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health's Partnership River of Life: Special Issue Introduction.","authors":"D. Kenyon, Melissa Buffalo, Jessica E. Heinzmann, M. Seiber, Dorothy M. Castille, A. Elliott","doi":"10.5820/aian.2602.2019.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.2602.2019.1","url":null,"abstract":"In 2012, the National Institutes of Health funded the Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health (CRCAIH) to work toward two broad goals: 1) to build tribal research infrastructure, and 2) to increase research on social determinants of health in American Indian communities. As the introduction to this special issue of American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, we highlight results from the Partnership River of Life evaluation tool in order to provide broader context for the other manuscripts presented here. Insights were gained during the Partnership River of Life group discussion and evaluation process of combining the groups' rivers to create one representation of the CRCAIH partnership. Detailed results underscore insights for similar transdisciplinary groups.","PeriodicalId":46147,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79383158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Relationship between Sense of Coherence and Historical Trauma among American Indian Youth.","authors":"William Evans, Bret Davis","doi":"10.5820/aian.2503.2018.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.2503.2018.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Historical trauma has been associated with many health and social issues. However, there is little understanding of how American Indian (AI) youth cope with historical trauma. Sense of Coherence (SOC) provides a promising framework for studying the relationship between resiliency and historical trauma, as it is a theorized mechanism that helps individuals cope with ongoing stress. A multi-method study examining the potential relationship between SOC and historical trauma revealed that higher levels of SOC predicted fewer historical trauma-related symptoms and provided rich detail about how an AI youth sample conceptualized stress and coping. Implications and future directions are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46147,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36627545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brandie Buckless, Kristine Rhodes, Meggan McCann, Bruce Christiansen, Jean Forster, Anne Joseph
{"title":"Feasibility of a Systems Approach to Treat Commercial Tobacco Dependence within American Indian Health Clinics.","authors":"Brandie Buckless, Kristine Rhodes, Meggan McCann, Bruce Christiansen, Jean Forster, Anne Joseph","doi":"10.5820/aian.2503.2018.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5820/aian.2503.2018.52","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) have the highest smoking prevalence, smoking-related disease, and mortality rates of any racial or ethnic group. Three AI health clinics in Minnesota implemented an evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment intervention that included provider education and customized clinical system tools. A baseline assessment of each clinic facility guided the focus of the intervention and tailored the clinical system tools. Clinic staff were assessed with pre/post-training evaluations and annual assessments. Results indicated self-reported improvements in the rate of identifying smoking status (57% to 89%), documenting smoking status (from 60% to 80%), and providing evidence-based treatments such as pharmacotherapy (from 36% to 78%).</p>","PeriodicalId":46147,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36585803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Screening for Postpartum Depression in American Indian/Alaska Native Women: A Comparison of Two Instruments.","authors":"Jennifer L Heck","doi":"10.5820/aian.2502.2018.74","DOIUrl":"10.5820/aian.2502.2018.74","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This review examined validation studies of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) to identify an appropriate postpartum depression (PPD) screening tool for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women in the U.S. Databases were searched using: EPDS paired with psychometric properties or validation and PHQ-9 paired with PPD and psychometric properties or validation, yielding a final sample of 58 articles. Both tools have good internal consistency, but discriminative validity for detecting PPD in women from non-Western cultures is low. Positive predictive values in these women are low and diverse (EPDS [n = 21] median 67%, range 21.1-90%; PHQ-9 [n = 1] median 26%). The low predictive accuracy of both tools suggests the tools may be culturally biased.</p>","PeriodicalId":46147,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36212452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julie A Beans, Vanessa Y Hiratsuka, Charlene R Apok, Karen Caindec, Denise A Dillard, Renee F Robinson
{"title":"Community Dissemination in a Tribal Health Setting: A Pharmacogenetics Case Study.","authors":"Julie A Beans, Vanessa Y Hiratsuka, Charlene R Apok, Karen Caindec, Denise A Dillard, Renee F Robinson","doi":"10.5820/aian.2501.2018.80","DOIUrl":"10.5820/aian.2501.2018.80","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alaska Native and American Indian (AN/AI) people experience a disproportionate burden of health disparities in the United States. Including AN/AI people in pharmacogenetic research offers an avenue to address these health disparities, however the dissemination of pharmacogenetic research results in the community context can be a challenging task. In this paper, we describe a case-study that explores the preferences of AN/AI community members regarding pharmacogenetic research results dissemination. Results were presented as a PowerPoint presentation at the 2016 Alaska Native Health Research Forum (Forum). An audience response system and discussion groups were used to gather feedback from participants. Descriptive statistics were used to assess attendee understanding of the presentation content. Thematic analysis was used to analyze discussion group data. Forum attendees needed time to work through the concept of pharmacogenetics and looked for ways pharmacogenetics could apply to their daily life. Attendees found pharmacogenetics interesting, but wanted a simple description of pharmacogenetics. Community members were optimistic about the potential benefit pharmacogenetic medicine could have in the delivery of health care and expressed excitement this research was taking place. Researchers were urged to communicate throughout the study, not just end research results, to the community. Furthermore, attendees insisted their providers stay informed of research results that may have an impact on health care delivery. Conversational forms of dissemination are recommended when disseminating pharmacogenetic research results at the community level.</p>","PeriodicalId":46147,"journal":{"name":"American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6367726/pdf/nihms-1002203.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36022435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}