Examining Church Capacity to Develop and Disseminate a Religiously Appropriate HIV Tool Kit with African American Churches
| Autor: | Cassandra Wainright, Jannette Berkley-Patton, Starlyn M. Hawes, Carole Bowe Thompson, Erin W. Moore, David A. Martinez, Eric W. Williams |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject HIV Infections Health Promotion Health informatics Article Faith Young Adult Protestantism Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Humans Mass Screening Medicine Health Education Mass screening Aged media_common Information Dissemination business.industry Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Gender studies Middle Aged Public relations medicine.disease Community-Institutional Relations United States Black or African American Urban Studies Outreach Female Health education Clergy business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Urban Health. 90:482-499 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2869 1099-3460 |
| Popis: | Increasingly, African American churches have been called upon to assist in efforts to address HIV/AIDS in underserved communities. African Americans churches may be well-positioned to provide HIV education, screening, and support services, particularly if they are equipped with church-appropriate, easy-to-deliver HIV tools that can be implemented through the naturalistic church environment. To inform the development of a church-based HIV tool kit, we examined church capacity with African American church leaders (N = 124 participants; n = 58 churches represented by senior pastors). Nearly all participants (96%) wanted to learn more about HIV and how to discuss it with their parishioners. Regarding church capacity, most of their representative churches held three regular services each week, facilitated various inreach and community outreach ministries, and had paid staff and computers. Also, many of their churches facilitated HIV/AIDS education/prevention and adolescent sex education activities. Guided by church capacity findings, an ecological framework, and a CBPR approach, we describe the resulting church-based HIV Tool Kit that “fits” naturalistically within a multilevel church infrastructure, builds upon churches' HIV-related experience, and equips faith leaders to efficiently promote HIV services with the communities they serve. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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