RESUMO
This article describes the process used to engage and recruit African American churches to serve as participants in two multi-year behavioural cancer research interventions from a community perspective. Community-based organizations used purposive sampling in engaging and recruiting advisory panel members and churches to participate in these interventions. Trust, respect, open dialogue with participants, and commitment to address community health needs contributed to successful engagement and recruitment of African American churches to serve as participants in these cancer research projects. Our results may help others engage and recruit African American churches to participate in future interventions.
Assuntos
Negro ou Afro-Americano/psicologia , Cristianismo , Pesquisa Participativa Baseada na Comunidade , Promoção da Saúde/métodos , Neoplasias/etnologia , Neoplasias/prevenção & controle , Seleção de Pacientes , Adulto , Idoso , Relações Comunidade-Instituição , Detecção Precoce de Câncer , Feminino , Educação em Saúde , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Religião e Medicina , ConfiançaRESUMO
Leadership plays a role in the success of an organization's initiatives. We examined church leaders' support-as perceived by lay community health advisor (CHA) interventionists-and implementation outcomes in a cancer early detection trial. CHAs perceived that their pastors: helped promote the intervention (M = 3.1/4, SD 1.2) and attended about half (M = 1.6/3, SD 1.3) the workshops. CHAs used marginally more techniques to recruit members when they perceived pastors were engaged in promoting the program (r s = .44, p = .08). Pastor attendance was positively associated with member enrollment (r s = .50, p < .05). Pastor support may be related to receptivity of both CHAs and congregants to engage in church health promotion.