TY - JOUR
T1 - Adaptation of a Community Clinical Linkages Intervention to the COVID-19 Pandemic
T2 - A Community Case Study
AU - Coulter, Kiera
AU - Ingram, Maia
AU - Lohr, Abby
AU - Figueroa, Carlos
AU - Coronado, Gloria
AU - Espinoza, Cynthia
AU - Esparza, Maria
AU - Monge, Stacey
AU - Velasco, Maria
AU - Itule-Klasen, Lee
AU - Bowen, Magdalena
AU - Wilkinson-Lee, Ada
AU - Carvajal, Scott
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to acknowledge the academic-community partnership of the AzPRC, specifically the members of the CAB's research committee, for their work in making the UNIDOS intervention a success during the enormous challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors also wish to thank the collaborating LCHDs and FQHCs for their leadership and efforts in implementing UNIDOS. Additionally, the authors would like to thank AzCHOW for their continued support of the CHWs of the UNIDOS intervention.
Funding Information:
This publication is a product of a Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Center supported by Cooperative Agreement Number (DP19-001) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 Coulter, Ingram, Lohr, Figueroa, Coronado, Espinoza, Esparza, Monge, Velasco, Itule-Klasen, Bowen, Wilkinson-Lee and Carvajal.
PY - 2022/6/22
Y1 - 2022/6/22
N2 - In this community case study, we describe the process within an academic-community partnership of adapting UNIDOS, a community health worker (CHW)-led community-clinical linkages (CCL) intervention targeting Latinx adults in Arizona, to the evolving landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic. Consistent with community-based participatory research principles, academic and community-based partners made decisions regarding changes to the intervention study protocol, specifically the intervention objectives, participant recruitment methods, CHW trainings, data collection measures and management, and mode of intervention delivery. Insights from this case study demonstrate the importance of community-based participatory research in successfully modifying the intervention to the conditions of the pandemic and also the cultural background of Latinx participants. This case study also illustrates how a CHW-led CCL intervention can address social determinants of health, in which the pandemic further exposed longstanding inequities along racial and ethnic lines in the United States.
AB - In this community case study, we describe the process within an academic-community partnership of adapting UNIDOS, a community health worker (CHW)-led community-clinical linkages (CCL) intervention targeting Latinx adults in Arizona, to the evolving landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic. Consistent with community-based participatory research principles, academic and community-based partners made decisions regarding changes to the intervention study protocol, specifically the intervention objectives, participant recruitment methods, CHW trainings, data collection measures and management, and mode of intervention delivery. Insights from this case study demonstrate the importance of community-based participatory research in successfully modifying the intervention to the conditions of the pandemic and also the cultural background of Latinx participants. This case study also illustrates how a CHW-led CCL intervention can address social determinants of health, in which the pandemic further exposed longstanding inequities along racial and ethnic lines in the United States.
KW - COVID-19
KW - adaptation
KW - community health worker
KW - community-based participatory research
KW - community-clinical linkages
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U2 - 10.3389/fpubh.2022.877593
DO - 10.3389/fpubh.2022.877593
M3 - Article
C2 - 35812475
AN - SCOPUS:85133653337
SN - 2296-2565
VL - 10
JO - Frontiers in Public Health
JF - Frontiers in Public Health
M1 - 877593
ER -