Community-Led Health Promotion Groups in a Bhutanese-Nepali Refugee Community.
Health Promot Pract
; 23(5): 743-748, 2022 09.
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| ID: mdl-34041948
ABSTRACT
This practice note reports on the work of the Namaste Community Health Partnership, an academic-community partnership established to address health disparities in a metro-area Bhutanese-Nepali refugee community in the western United States. Partners worked together to develop, implement, and evaluate a culturally-tailored health promotion program where Bhutanese-Nepali individuals led weekly walking groups and shared health promotion information and behavior change tools with community participants. The program was implemented with approximately 70 community members across two metro-area neighborhoods and two adult day care centers serving elders. Evaluation strategies included documenting walk attendance, tracking engagement with health promotion goals, and focus group discussions with program participants. Once enrolled, most participants consistently attended walks and achieved weekly goals-some even increased walking frequency beyond program requirements. Participants provided positive feedback about having a community leader and reported learning new information and enjoying participating with other community members. Challenges and lessons learned included difficulties engaging younger adults from the community, concerns about signing research consent forms, cultural norms discouraging the distribution of individual research participation incentives, variability across groups in preferences for program activities, and barriers to administering survey-based evaluation instruments. This academic-community partnership built capacity in the local Bhutanese-Nepali community, produced culturally relevant health programming, and trained and employed community members as health educators and physical activity leaders. The program resulting from this work has the potential to improve health knowledge and chronic disease prevention practices and ultimately reduce health disparities in an underserved refugee community.
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MEDLINE
Contexto em Saúde:
1_ASSA2030
Problema de saúde:
1_desigualdade_iniquidade
Assunto principal:
Refugiados
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
Limite:
Adult
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Aged
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
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Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health Promot Pract
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos