A qualitative exploration of the community partner experience in a faith-based breast cancer educational intervention Export

@article{citeulike:5835033, abstract = {Although community partner engagement is a key component in faith-based health promotion/disease prevention intervention research, the perspective of community partners on their experiences in the intervention process has been infrequently investigated. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 12 African-American community partners [i.e. four pastors and eight lay health co-ordinators (LHCs)] from eight churches in greater Baltimore, MD, USA, that engaged in a breast cancer educational intervention that followed a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach. Audiotaped interviews were transcribed, coded and content analysis was used to identify themes across the codes. Findings show that pastors support a holistic approach to health and that LHCs act as a link between the pastors, participants and academic researchers. In addition, pastors and LHCs emphasized that the religious and/or spiritual program elements should not overpower the importance of reaching participants with critical health information regardless of their religious or spiritual beliefs. Study findings suggest that faith-based educational intervention efforts that follow a CBPR approach are important in promoting cancer awareness in the African-American community. Including community partner assessment can further elucidate critical intervention impacts and helps to address health disparities in underserved communities. 10.1093/her/cyp010}, author = {Rodriguez, Elisa M. and Bowie, Janice V. and Frattaroli, Shannon and Gielen, Andrea}, citeulike-article-id = {5835033}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/her/cyp010}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://her.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/5/760}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19307318}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19307318}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1093/her/cyp010}, journal = {Health Educ. Res.}, keywords = {african-american, community, faith-based, intervention, multi-level, us}, month = {October}, number = {5}, pages = {760--771}, posted-at = {2009-09-24 09:12:28}, priority = {2}, title = {A qualitative exploration of the community partner experience in a faith-based breast cancer educational intervention}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/her/cyp010}, volume = {24}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5835033 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5835033 N2 - Although community partner engagement is a key component in faith-based health promotion/disease prevention intervention research, the perspective of community partners on their experiences in the intervention process has been infrequently investigated. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 12 African-American community partners [i.e. four pastors and eight lay health co-ordinators (LHCs)] from eight churches in greater Baltimore, MD, USA, that engaged in a breast cancer educational intervention that followed a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach. Audiotaped interviews were transcribed, coded and content analysis was used to identify themes across the codes. Findings show that pastors support a holistic approach to health and that LHCs act as a link between the pastors, participants and academic researchers. In addition, pastors and LHCs emphasized that the religious and/or spiritual program elements should not overpower the importance of reaching participants with critical health information regardless of their religious or spiritual beliefs. Study findings suggest that faith-based educational intervention efforts that follow a CBPR approach are important in promoting cancer awareness in the African-American community. Including community partner assessment can further elucidate critical intervention impacts and helps to address health disparities in underserved communities. 10.1093/her/cyp010 IS - 5 JF - Health Educ. Res. EP - 771 TI - A qualitative exploration of the community partner experience in a faith-based breast cancer educational intervention VL - 24 SP - 760 KW - african-american KW - community KW - faith-based KW - intervention KW - multi-level KW - us AU - Rodriguez, Elisa AU - Bowie, Janice AU - Frattaroli, Shannon AU - Gielen, Andrea PY - 2009/10/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/her/cyp010 ER -