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UNLABELLED: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has become an important research approach for universities to partner with social service agencies by uniting them in project design, planning, implementation, and evaluation. OBJECTIVES: This study involved FOCUS, an urban social service agency, and Rutgers College of Nursing (RUCON) collaboratively conducting a needs assessment to compare the health needs of its clients and their employees' perception of their clients health needs, utilizing CBPR. DESIGN: Qualitative data was collected using the focus group method, field notes, photographs, and observation. The employees of FOCUS facilitated focus groups, participant recruitment, and transcribed and translated data. RESULTS: Three themes emerged: Health Education, Cost of Health Care, and Barriers to Health Care. CONCLUSION: This study contributes to the growing body of knowledge of integrating the CBPR approach when conducting a community needs assessment with a social service agency. The CBPR approach closely reflects the identified health needs of its clients resulting in interventions that will meet their specific health needs.
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Community-Based Participatory Research/methods , Cooperative Behavior , Needs Assessment , Schools, Nursing/organization & administration , Social Work/organization & administration , Urban Health Services , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Female , Focus Groups , Health Care Costs , Health Education , Health Services Accessibility , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , New Jersey , Qualitative Research , Young AdultABSTRACT
Healthcare disparities for minorities are well reported and related to individual, provider and system characteristics. This paper reports a meta-synthesis of "empowerment with Hispanic and Latino people. This meta-synthesis utilized Noblit and Hare's meta-ethnographic method (1988) examining seven qualitative studies to discover strategies of empowerment by healthcare professionals for Hispanic/Latino people. Three themes were disclosed: strategies for empowerment, sharing power, and growth of the Hispanic/Latino culture in the United States. These themes expand existing conceptualizations of ways in which health care professionals and community members can work in a participatory research approach to improve healthcare outcomes as well as empowering the community.
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Community-Based Participatory Research , Health Promotion/methods , Healthcare Disparities , Hispanic or Latino , Power, Psychological , Canada , Cultural Competency , Humans , United States , Vulnerable PopulationsABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES: This study was used to test the effect on planned safe use of over-the-counter (OTC) analgesics of adding information about the potential for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) interaction with antihypertensive medications, the potential for interaction of alcohol and acetaminophen, and NSAID ceiling effects to the Federal Drug Administration's (FDA's) OTC analgesics pamphlet. DESIGN: A randomized posttest-only double-blind experimental design was used to test an intervention with a comparison group reading the FDA pamphlet, and treatment group reading the pamphlet with added information. SAMPLE: Participants included 137 adults. INTERVENTION: Participants read the treatment or the comparison pamphlet. RESULTS: Both groups responded with similar planned use of OTC analgesics. The majority were likely to read the label before taking an OTC analgesic, but were unlikely to give acetaminophen to a family member using antihypertensive medication. CONCLUSIONS: Reading additional information about OTC analgesics resulted in no greater intention to safely use analgesics. Responses indicated reluctance to use OTC analgesics, and the potential need for increased health teaching regarding use of OTC analgesics with antihypertensive medication. Public health teaching should include the importance of treating pain and selecting the safest OTC analgesics for the clinical situation.
