Luque John, Tyson Dinorah Martinez, Lee Ji-Hyun, Gwede Clement, Vadaparampil Susan, Noel-Thomas Shalewa, Meade Cathy
JP Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University.
J Community Psychol. 2010 Jul 1;38(5):656-668. doi: 10.1002/jcop.20386.
The Tampa Bay Community Cancer Network (TBCCN) is one of 25 Community Network Programs funded by the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities with the objectives to create a collaborative infrastructure of academic and community based organizations and to develop effective and sustainable interventions to reduce cancer health disparities. In order to describe the network characteristics of the TBCCN as part of our ongoing evaluation efforts, we conducted social network analysis surveys with our community partners in 2007 and 2008. One key finding showed that the mean trust value for the 20 community partners in the study increased from 1.8 to 2.1 (p<0.01), suggesting a trend toward increased trust in the network. These preliminary results suggest that TBCCN has led to greater collaboration among the community partners that were formed through its capacity-building and evidence-based dissemination activities for impacting cancer health disparities at the community level.
坦帕湾社区癌症网络（TBCCN）是由美国国立癌症研究所（NCI）减少癌症健康差异中心资助的25个社区网络项目之一，其目标是创建一个由学术组织和社区组织组成的合作基础设施，并开发有效且可持续的干预措施以减少癌症健康差异。为了在我们正在进行的评估工作中描述TBCCN的网络特征，我们在2007年和2008年与我们的社区合作伙伴进行了社会网络分析调查。一项关键发现表明，研究中20个社区合作伙伴的平均信任值从1.8提高到了2.1（p<0.01），这表明对该网络的信任有增加的趋势。这些初步结果表明，TBCCN通过其能力建设和基于证据的传播活动，在社区层面影响癌症健康差异，从而促进了社区合作伙伴之间更大程度的合作。
