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View article: Use of Live Community Events on Facebook to Share Health and Clinical Research Information With a Minnesota Statewide Community: Exploratory Study
Use of Live Community Events on Facebook to Share Health and Clinical Research Information With a Minnesota Statewide Community: Exploratory Study Open
Background Community engagement can make a substantial difference in health outcomes and strengthen the capacity to deal with disruptive public health events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media platforms such as Facebook are a prom…
View article: Use of Live Community Events on Facebook to Share Health and Clinical Research Information With a Minnesota Statewide Community: Exploratory Study (Preprint)
Use of Live Community Events on Facebook to Share Health and Clinical Research Information With a Minnesota Statewide Community: Exploratory Study (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Community engagement can make a substantial difference in health outcomes and strengthen the capacity to deal with disruptive public health events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media platforms such as Facebook are a pro…
View article: 80276 Use of Live Community Events on Facebook to Share Health and Clinical Research Information with the Community: An Exploratory Study
80276 Use of Live Community Events on Facebook to Share Health and Clinical Research Information with the Community: An Exploratory Study Open
IMPACT: We review our strategy to use live community events on Facebook to share health and clinical research information and share further steps to increase engagement. OBJECTIVES/GOALS: To describe the use of live community events to enh…
View article: Feasibility of a virtual Facebook community platform for engagement on health research
Feasibility of a virtual Facebook community platform for engagement on health research Open
Introduction: Community engagement is important for advancing Clinical and Translational Science (CTS), but face-to-face engagement has limited reach and scale. We examined the feasibility of a novel virtual Facebook community platform for…
View article: Views and experiences of youth participants in a pediatric advisory board for human subjects research
Views and experiences of youth participants in a pediatric advisory board for human subjects research Open
Introduction: Community Advisory Boards (CABs) are typically comprised of adult community members who provide feedback on health-related, adult-focused research. Few, if any, CABs comprised of youth participants exist. In 2019, a Midwest m…
View article: Creating a pediatric advisory board for engaging youth in pediatric health research: A case study
Creating a pediatric advisory board for engaging youth in pediatric health research: A case study Open
Youth are an understudied population requiring additional safeguards when participating in research. Their input is necessary to facilitate participation and interest in studies. To address this, Mayo Clinic established one of the first pe…
View article: Researchers’ experiences working with community advisory boards: How community member feedback impacted the research
Researchers’ experiences working with community advisory boards: How community member feedback impacted the research Open
Introduction: To assess researchers’ experiences working with community advisory boards (CABs) and perceptions of how community member stakeholder feedback impacted the research. Methods: Individual interviews were conducted with researche…
View article: Public feedback on a proposed statewide virtual translational research community
Public feedback on a proposed statewide virtual translational research community Open
Introduction: Researchers have explored using the internet and social media to recruit participants to specific research projects. Less systematic work has been done to inform the engagement of large populations in virtual communities to a…
View article: Acceptability of Robotic-Assisted Exercise Coaching Among Diverse Youth: Pilot Study
Acceptability of Robotic-Assisted Exercise Coaching Among Diverse Youth: Pilot Study Open
Background Almost 80% of adolescents do not achieve 60 minutes or more of physical activity each day as recommended by current US national guidelines. There is a need to develop and promote interventions that increase physical activity amo…
View article: 3235 Acceptability of Robotic-Assisted Exercise Coaching in Diverse Youth
3235 Acceptability of Robotic-Assisted Exercise Coaching in Diverse Youth Open
OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Approximately 80% of adolescents do not meet the current national guidelines of engaging in 60 minutes or more of physical activity daily. Physical activity is widely recognized as being beneficial for healthy gro…
View article: 3029 Willingness to Engage in a Statewide Virtual Community for Biomedical Research
3029 Willingness to Engage in a Statewide Virtual Community for Biomedical Research Open
OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Virtual communities are an untested method to enhance community engagement in biomedical research. Our CTSA Hubs collaborated to assess receptivity to engage in a statewide Facebook (FB) group. METHODS/STUDY POPUL…
View article: Support person interventions to increase use of quitline services among racially diverse low-income smokers: A pilot study
Support person interventions to increase use of quitline services among racially diverse low-income smokers: A pilot study Open
This pilot study demonstrated feasibility of recruiting SP-smoker dyads from diverse, low-income communities. While the intervention was well received, its delivery was not feasible in this population. Results suggest that further consumer…
View article: Acceptability of Robotic-Assisted Exercise Coaching in Diverse Youth (Preprint)
Acceptability of Robotic-Assisted Exercise Coaching in Diverse Youth (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Background: Almost 80% of adolescents do not achieve 60 minutes or more of physical activity each day recommended by current national guidelines. There is a need to develop and promote interventions that increase physical activ…
View article: An Academic Medical Center’s Learners’ Perceptions of Health Disparities
An Academic Medical Center’s Learners’ Perceptions of Health Disparities Open
Introduction: Lack of health equity ultimately leads to unequal treatment of diverse patients and contributes to the growing disparities seen in national health. Academic medical centers should consider providing health care providers and …
View article: Using Garden Cafés to engage community stakeholders in health research
Using Garden Cafés to engage community stakeholders in health research Open
Science Cafés, informal venues to promote bidirectional dialog, inquiry and learning about science between community members, scientists, healthcare and service providers, hold promise as an innovative tool for healthcare researchers and c…
View article: Linking Podcasts With Social Media to Promote Community Health and Medical Research: Feasibility Study
Linking Podcasts With Social Media to Promote Community Health and Medical Research: Feasibility Study Open
This study demonstrated the process and feasibility of creating a content library of podcasts for disseminating health- and research-related information. Further examination is needed to determine the best methods to develop a sustainable …
View article: Survey of potential receptivity to robotic-assisted exercise coaching in a diverse sample of smokers and nonsmokers
Survey of potential receptivity to robotic-assisted exercise coaching in a diverse sample of smokers and nonsmokers Open
A prior project found that an intensive (12 weeks, thrice weekly sessions) in-person, supervised, exercise coaching intervention was effective for smoking cessation among depressed women smokers. However, the sample was 90% White and of hi…
View article: Linking Podcasts With Social Media to Promote Community Health and Medical Research: Feasibility Study (Preprint)
Linking Podcasts With Social Media to Promote Community Health and Medical Research: Feasibility Study (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Linking podcasts with social media is a strategy to promote and disseminate health and health research information to the community without constraints of time, weather, and geography. OBJECTIVE To describe the process of cre…
View article: "Energy, Skill, and Outrage: How the Clinical Model Can Support Law Students and Clients as Drivers of Social Change"
"Energy, Skill, and Outrage: How the Clinical Model Can Support Law Students and Clients as Drivers of Social Change" Open
View article: Development of a self-directed, online-learning curriculum to increase community-engaged research in clinical and translational science
Development of a self-directed, online-learning curriculum to increase community-engaged research in clinical and translational science Open
Background Medical research strives to improve health; community-engaged research (CEnR) supports translation to the community. Methods This article describes the use of andragogical theory to develop asynchronous CEnR training. Results A …
View article: Initiating a Standardized Regional Referral and Counter-Referral System in Guatemala: A Mixed-Methods Study
Initiating a Standardized Regional Referral and Counter-Referral System in Guatemala: A Mixed-Methods Study Open
Background:Few data exist for referral processes in resource-limited settings. We utilized mixed-methods to evaluate the impact of a standardized algorithm and training module developed for locally identified needs in referral/counter-refe…
View article: Use of Web 2.0 Social Media Platforms to Promote Community-Engaged Research Dialogs: A Preliminary Program Evaluation
Use of Web 2.0 Social Media Platforms to Promote Community-Engaged Research Dialogs: A Preliminary Program Evaluation Open
Researchers and community stakeholders use social medial platforms for dialogs related to community-engaged research. This preliminary work is novel because we used Web 2.0 social media platforms to engage these stakeholders whereas prior …
View article: Black Men’s Perceptions and Knowledge of Diabetes: a Church-Affiliated Barbershop Focus Group Study
Black Men’s Perceptions and Knowledge of Diabetes: a Church-Affiliated Barbershop Focus Group Study Open