Jackson A L
University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago.
Public Health Rep. 1990 Jan-Feb;105(1):85-8.
This project seeks to improve traditional hypertension screening of the black population by developing a community oriented approach that can increase knowledge and involve a new target group--black children--in preventive techniques. To help achieve the educational goals, an anti-hypertensive picture book for black children has been designed. The picture book will be distributed through church Sunday School classes. Several black churches in Chicago that were willing to host hypertension screenings for their congregations were identified; the picture books will be distributed through their Sunday School classes. Medical students, physicians, and members of the Black Nurses Association have been recruited to work collaboratively to introduce the picture book-manual, to instruct children on how to measure blood pressure, and to assist in the initial hypertension screenings at the churches. Funding is needed to print the manual and purchase sphygmomanometer sets for training. With the manual, equipment, and proper instruction of the children, each church will have the manpower to screen its at-risk population as often as possible. Educating black children about hypertension and its detection increases their awareness and provides them with the knowledge to screen adults. The success of this community support system is the exchange of knowledge between children and adults and the constant followup and preventive intervention supplied through a dominant community organization, the black church.
该项目旨在通过开发一种以社区为导向的方法来改进对黑人人群的传统高血压筛查，这种方法可以增加知识，并让一个新的目标群体——黑人儿童——参与到预防技术中来。为了帮助实现教育目标，已设计了一本面向黑人儿童的抗高血压图画书。这本图画书将通过教堂主日学校课程分发。已确定芝加哥的几家愿意为其会众举办高血压筛查的黑人教堂；图画书将通过他们的主日学校课程分发。已招募医科学生、医生和黑人护士协会成员共同合作，介绍这本图画书手册，指导儿童如何测量血压，并协助在教堂进行初步高血压筛查。需要资金来印刷手册并购买血压计套装用于培训。有了手册、设备以及对儿童的适当指导，每个教堂将有足够的人力尽可能频繁地对其高危人群进行筛查。对黑人儿童进行高血压及其检测方面的教育可以提高他们的意识，并为他们提供筛查成年人的知识。这个社区支持系统的成功之处在于儿童与成年人之间的知识交流，以及通过一个占主导地位的社区组织——黑人教堂——提供的持续跟进和预防性干预。
