51. Community Health Advisors as Research Partners
- Author
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Theresa A. Wynn, Charkarra Anderson-Lewis, B. Lee Green, and Rhoda E. Johnson
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Program evaluation ,Teaching method ,education ,MEDLINE ,Community Networks ,Mississippi ,Neoplasms ,Intervention (counseling) ,Humans ,Community Health Services ,Personnel Selection ,Schools, Medical ,Clinical Trials as Topic ,Medical education ,Teaching ,Community Participation ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Variety (cybernetics) ,Black or African American ,Scale (social sciences) ,Workforce ,Community health ,Alabama ,Health Services Research ,Psychology ,Program Evaluation - Abstract
The feasibility of training large numbers of community health advisors as research partners (CHARPs) was evaluated using talking circles data and cancer activity questionnaires and logs. The talking circles data indicated that the CHARPs (n=108) valued their training and believed they learned necessary research partner skills. A review of contacts (n=7,956) provided evidence that CHARPs (n=883) could work as a team to deliver a variety of services over time to the community. The findings suggested that implementing a large scale intervention with CHARPs has the potential to increase the dissemination of cancer information and to reduce cancer disparities.
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- 2005