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  title info:
    title: Balancing design rigor and community needs in cardiovascular disease prevention in an underserved U.S.-Mexico border community
  name:
    name part: Heer, Hendrik Dirk de
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Balcazar, Hector
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rosenthal, E. Lee
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Williams, Petra
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kinslow, Brian
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Thomas, Sherrie Wise
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Case studies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: This case is about a community-based participatory research project called HEART that addressed prevention of heart disease and involved community health workers. Community health workers are members of the community who work as frontline public health workers. Community health workers connect people with providers and services, provide education, promote policies that affect the community, and fulfill many other roles. The project took place over 8 years in a large city along the U.S.-Mexico border and consisted of two parts. The first part tested whether participants who received an educational curriculum taught by community health workers improved cardiovascular health compared with a group who just received the materials. Both groups improved, with slightly greater changes among the group taught by community health workers. The second study aimed to increase use of existing facilities in participants' neighborhoods and provided free Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) memberships. Community health workers also organized many different exercise and nutrition classes held at the Young Women's Christian Association and parks and recreation centers. People attended a high number of sessions, improved their physical activity and diet, and reduced their weight and waist circumference, although one-third of participants did not complete the follow-up assessments. Many lessons were learned from the project, including the need for and difficulty of balancing scientific rigor with community needs. It is essential to have input from community members about these decisions at every step of the way. Decisions on research design, data collection and management, and dissemination all affect both the strength of the research and the potential for real-world impact.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Hendrik Dirk de Heer, Hector Balcázar, E. Lee Rosenthal, Petra Williams, Brian Kinslow, Sherrie Wise Thomas.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-mx---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Cardiovascular system
    topic: Diseases
    topic: Prevention
    topic: Research
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Public health
    topic: Research
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Santé publique
    topic: Recherche
    geographic: Région frontalière mexicano-américaine
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Public health
    topic: Research
  subject:
    geographic: North America
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
  classification: RA645.C34 H44 2017
  classification: 616.105
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SAGE Research Methods
      part name: Cases
  identifier: 9781526420961
  identifier: 1526420961
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: UAB
    record creation date: 170313
    record change date: 20240923170334.5
    record identifier: in00005494737
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng