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Addressing Cardiovascular Health Disparities in Minnesota: Establishment of a Community Steering Committee by FAITH! (Fostering African-American Improvement in Total Health)

Despite its rank as the fourth healthiest state in the United States, Minnesota has clear cardiovascular disease disparities between African-Americans and whites. Culturally-tailored interventions implemented using community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles have been vital to improving...

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Autores principales: Manjunath, Chandrika, Ifelayo, Oluwatomilona, Jones, Clarence, Washington, Monisha, Shanedling, Stanton, Williams, Johnnie, Patten, Christi A., Cooper, Lisa A., Brewer, LaPrincess C.
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6862476/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31661826
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16214144
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author Manjunath, Chandrika
Ifelayo, Oluwatomilona
Jones, Clarence
Washington, Monisha
Shanedling, Stanton
Williams, Johnnie
Patten, Christi A.
Cooper, Lisa A.
Brewer, LaPrincess C.
author_facet Manjunath, Chandrika
Ifelayo, Oluwatomilona
Jones, Clarence
Washington, Monisha
Shanedling, Stanton
Williams, Johnnie
Patten, Christi A.
Cooper, Lisa A.
Brewer, LaPrincess C.
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description Despite its rank as the fourth healthiest state in the United States, Minnesota has clear cardiovascular disease disparities between African-Americans and whites. Culturally-tailored interventions implemented using community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles have been vital to improving health and wellness among African-Americans. This paper delineates the establishment, impact, and lessons learned from the formation of a community steering committee (CSC) to guide the Fostering African-American Improvement in Total Health (FAITH!) Program, a CBPR cardiovascular health promotion initiative among African-Americans in Minnesota. The theory-informed CSC implementation process included three phases: (1) Membership Formation and Recruitment, (2) Engagement, and (3) Covenant Development and Empowerment. The CSC is comprised of ten diverse community members guided by mutually agreed upon bylaws in their commitment to FAITH!. Overall, members considered the CSC implementation process effective and productive. A CBPR conceptual model provided an outline of proximal and distal goals for the CSC and FAITH!. The CSC implementation process yielded four lessons learned: (1) Have clarity of purpose and vision, (2) cultivate group cohesion, (3) employ consistent review of CBPR tenets, and (4) expect the unexpected. A robust CSC was established and was instrumental to the success and impact of FAITH! within African-American communities in Minnesota.
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spelling pubmed-68624762019-12-05 Addressing Cardiovascular Health Disparities in Minnesota: Establishment of a Community Steering Committee by FAITH! (Fostering African-American Improvement in Total Health) Manjunath, Chandrika Ifelayo, Oluwatomilona Jones, Clarence Washington, Monisha Shanedling, Stanton Williams, Johnnie Patten, Christi A. Cooper, Lisa A. Brewer, LaPrincess C. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Despite its rank as the fourth healthiest state in the United States, Minnesota has clear cardiovascular disease disparities between African-Americans and whites. Culturally-tailored interventions implemented using community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles have been vital to improving health and wellness among African-Americans. This paper delineates the establishment, impact, and lessons learned from the formation of a community steering committee (CSC) to guide the Fostering African-American Improvement in Total Health (FAITH!) Program, a CBPR cardiovascular health promotion initiative among African-Americans in Minnesota. The theory-informed CSC implementation process included three phases: (1) Membership Formation and Recruitment, (2) Engagement, and (3) Covenant Development and Empowerment. The CSC is comprised of ten diverse community members guided by mutually agreed upon bylaws in their commitment to FAITH!. Overall, members considered the CSC implementation process effective and productive. A CBPR conceptual model provided an outline of proximal and distal goals for the CSC and FAITH!. The CSC implementation process yielded four lessons learned: (1) Have clarity of purpose and vision, (2) cultivate group cohesion, (3) employ consistent review of CBPR tenets, and (4) expect the unexpected. A robust CSC was established and was instrumental to the success and impact of FAITH! within African-American communities in Minnesota. MDPI 2019-10-28 2019-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6862476/ /pubmed/31661826 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16214144 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ifelayo, Oluwatomilona
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Brewer, LaPrincess C.
Addressing Cardiovascular Health Disparities in Minnesota: Establishment of a Community Steering Committee by FAITH! (Fostering African-American Improvement in Total Health)
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31661826
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16214144
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