Community Capacity and Diabetes Care: Hispanic Appalachians
PI - Mary Katherine Anderson
East Tennessee State University
The purpose of this study is to examine the process of building community capacity in an underserved, Hispanic community in Southern Appalachia through adaptation and implementation of multi-level interventions for diabetes prevention. This Hispanic community has already identified that diabetes and access to health care are problems that must be addressed. The investigators will engage with the community in participatory action research (PAR) to address these diabetes-related health concerns and reduce the burden of diabetes, while aiming at the goal of increasing the community's health in the broadest sense. The research will contribute to scientific knowledge through empirical investigation of the development and maintenance of health supportive policies and environments at the individual, family, aggregate, and community levels. Community competence will be measured as well as the functioning of a coalition that includes researchers and Hispanic community members. A novel approach, the Composite Case Model (CCM), will be used as a vehicle to allow the coalition and the community to focus on aggregate and community concerns related to diabetes. The CCM will also be used for community education and testing of the design and implementation of coalition programs. The reduction in diabetes burden will be measured at all levels of prevention - primary, secondary, and tertiary.
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