Use of community-based participatory research to disseminate baseline results from a cardiovascular disease randomized community trial for Mexican Americans living in a U.S.-Mexico border community.

Balcazar, Hector; Rosenthal, Lee; De Heer, Hendrick; Aguirre, Melissa; Flores, Leticia; Vasquez, Esperanza; Duarte, Maria; Schulz, Leslie

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dc.creator	Balcazar, Hector
dc.creator	Rosenthal, Lee
dc.creator	De Heer, Hendrick
dc.creator	Aguirre, Melissa
dc.creator	Flores, Leticia
dc.creator	Vasquez, Esperanza
dc.creator	Duarte, Maria
dc.creator	Schulz, Leslie
dc.date	2019-08-14T15:04:19Z
dc.date	2019-08-14T15:04:19Z
dc.date	2009
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-20T08:38:13Z
dc.date.available	2022-05-20T08:38:13Z
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.13016/iued-e7eq
dc.identifier	Balcazar, Hector and Rosenthal, Lee and De Heer, Hendrick and Aguirre, Melissa and Flores, Leticia and Vasquez, Esperanza and Duarte, Maria and Schulz, Leslie (2009) Use of community-based participatory research to disseminate baseline results from a cardiovascular disease randomized community trial for Mexican Americans living in a U.S.-Mexico border community. Education for health (Abingdon, England), 22 (3). p. 279.
dc.identifier	1469-5804
dc.identifier	Eprint ID 3055
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/23674
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/117602
dc.description	INTRODUCTION: This article describes the development of a community-based participatory research (CBPR) process conducted in the context of a randomized community health education trial utilizing community health workers (CHWs). OBJECTIVES: To present lessons learned from the utilization of CBPR methodology in a cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention trial among Mexican American adults in a U.S.-Mexico border community and to disseminate the baseline results associated with risk factors for CVD and their associated demographic and psychosocial characteristics. METHODS: Participants were 328 Hispanic adults ages 30-75 with at least one risk factor for CVD (overweight, smoking, high cholesterol, diabetic or hypertensive), who were recruited through approaching households in randomly selected census tracts within a specified zip code area. RESULTS: CBPR methods were applied during the different stages of the research enterprise to support the development and implementation of the intervention trial aim at reducing cardiovascular risk factors for Mexican American adults. Data from baseline were used as an important component of dialogue with the community. DISCUSSION: CBPR proved to be a good learning process for all partners involved. The risk profile of the participants demonstrated the "epidemic" nature of CVD morbidity conditions associated with Mexican origin populations living in a U.S.-Mexico border community. The CBPR dialogue was instrumental as a process to help disseminate to the community the need for projects like the one described in this article
dc.description	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2865886/?tool=pubmed
dc.subject	Cardiovascular Disease
dc.subject	interventions
dc.subject	Research
dc.subject	methodologies
dc.subject	Community health workers
dc.subject	Hispanic
dc.subject	Mexican American
dc.subject	cardiovascular disease
dc.subject	randomized community trial
dc.subject	U.S.-Mexico border
dc.subject	community-based participatory research
dc.title	Use of community-based participatory research to disseminate baseline results from a cardiovascular disease randomized community trial for Mexican Americans living in a U.S.-Mexico border community.
dc.type	Article