School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, New York, USA.
Soc Work Health Care. 2011;50(5):360-75. doi: 10.1080/00981389.2011.567128.
Community-based participatory action research was utilized to form a collaboration that developed a Health Ministry program in four Northeastern urban Black Churches, in which they designed and implemented a culturally competent Type II Diabetes self management education program. Minister sponsorship and a program coordinator synchronized the four Health Ministries' development and diabetes program planning. A case study design, and participant observations and a focus group methodology were used to explore the faith-based community residents' collaboration development, and design and implementation of the health promotion program. The implementation process can be described as occurring in four essential elements: (1) the development of the health ministry in each of the four churches; (2) the process in which the four ministries coordinated their activities to create the diabetes education program; (3) the process of delivering the diabetes education program; and (4) the challenges in promoting the diabetes education program across the community. Practice implications, as well as cultural competency issues related to social work practice with faith-based organizations and African-American communities, are also presented.
采用社区参与行动研究的方法，成立了一个合作组织，在东北部的四家黑人教堂开展卫生部项目，在这些教堂中，他们设计并实施了一项文化上有能力的 II 型糖尿病自我管理教育计划。部长的赞助和一名项目协调员协调了四个卫生部的发展和糖尿病计划规划。采用案例研究设计、参与者观察和焦点小组方法，探讨了基于信仰的社区居民的合作发展、健康促进计划的设计和实施。实施过程可以描述为发生在四个基本要素中：（1）四个教堂中每个教堂的卫生部发展；（2）四个部门协调活动以创建糖尿病教育计划的过程；（3）实施糖尿病教育计划的过程；以及（4）在整个社区推广糖尿病教育计划所面临的挑战。还提出了与基于信仰的组织和非裔美国人社区的社会工作实践相关的实践意义和文化能力问题。
