在非洲移民群体中开展基于社区的研究:经验教训。

IF 3.4 3区 医学 Q1 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Ethnicity & Disease Pub Date : 2024-07-02 eCollection Date: 2024-02-01 DOI:10.18865/ed.34.2.60
Clara M Gona, Kathryn Kieran, Jennifer Durning, Lisa-Marie O'Brien, Rosalia Gotora, Tricia Gordon, Philimon N Gona
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背景:非洲移民人口虽少,却是美国增长最快的移民人口之一。新的研究表明,非传染性可预防慢性病在这一人群中的发病率很高。与其他非裔美国人一样,非洲移民也对医疗保健系统不信任,这阻碍了预防和干预研究工作的开展。目的:介绍我们在非洲移民社区开展两项研究的经验,讨论从中吸取的教训,并为有意在类似人群中开展研究的研究人员提供建议:设计:我们在这两项已发表的研究中总结了经验教训,这两项研究分别是一项横断面研究和一项采用焦点小组访谈的定性研究。参与者包括在宗教节日和社区活动中招募的美国东部津巴布韦移民。这两项研究共招募了 135 名参与者:在第一项研究中,我们的招募目标是 120 人,但经过多次努力,我们只招募到 98 人。然而,在第二项研究中,我们与社区咨询委员会(CAB)进行了战略合作,在 4 个月内就实现了招募目标。有了社区咨询委员会,我们招募到了更大比例的男性(38% 对 24%)。在没有社区咨询委员会的情况下,有 350 人同意参与研究,但只有 98 人(28%)返回了问卷,而在有社区咨询委员会的情况下,有 40 人同意参与研究,其中 37 人(93%)成功完成了研究:在移民中开展与健康有关的研究需要与社区建立战略伙伴关系,以便在研究团队与目标社区之间建立牢固的关系。通过培养这些关系,研究团队可以有效地接触到这一难以接触到的人群,并实现较高的参与率。
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Conducting Community-Based Research in An African Immigrant Population: Lessons Learned.

Background: Although small, the African immigrant population is one of the fastest growing immigrant populations in the United States. Emerging research indicates a high prevalence of noncommunicable preventable chronic conditions in this population. Like other African Americans, African immigrants are mistrustful of the health care system, hampering efforts for prevention and intervention research.

Purpose: To describe our experiences conducting 2 studies in an African immigrant community, discuss the lessons learned, and provide advice to researchers interested in conducting research in similar populations.

Design: The 2 published studies for which we derive lessons learned for this paper were a cross-sectional study and a qualitative study using focus group interviews. Participants included Zimbabwean immigrants in the Eastern United States recruited at religious festivals and community events. The 2 studies enrolled a total of 135 participants.

Results: Of our recruitment goal of 120 in the first study, we enrolled only 98 despite numerous efforts. However, after strategically partnering with a community advisory board (CAB), in the second study, we met our recruitment goal within 4 months. With the CAB, we recruited a larger proportion of men (38% versus 24%). Without the CAB, 350 individuals agreed to participate, but only 98 (28%) returned the questionnaire, whereas with the CAB, 40 agreed to participate, and 37 (93%) successfully completed the study.

Conclusion: Conducting health-related research in immigrants requires strategic partnerships with the community to build strong relationships between the research team and the target community. By nurturing these relationships, research teams can effectively access this hard-to-reach population and achieve high participation.

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Ethnicity & Disease
Ethnicity & Disease 医学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生
CiteScore
6.30
自引率
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发文量
43
审稿时长
6-12 weeks
期刊介绍: Ethnicity & Disease is an international journal that exclusively publishes information on the causal and associative relationships in the etiology of common illnesses through the study of ethnic patterns of disease. Topics focus on: ethnic differentials in disease rates;impact of migration on health status; social and ethnic factors related to health care access and health; and metabolic epidemiology. A major priority of the journal is to provide a forum for exchange between the United States and the developing countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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