Abstract

The purpose of the CERC Community Engagement/Outreach Core is to make a significant contribution to the goals/specific aims of the CERC Center of Excellence by ensuring that community engagement/outreach activities include: a) disseminating evidenced-based information and translation of research findings;b) increasing health literacy;c) promoting clinical trials offered through the CERC;and c) increasing the knowledge of health disparities and strategies aimed at preventing, reducing and eliminating them.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Type
Exploratory Grants (P20)
Project #
2P20MD002286-06
Application #
8354725
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZMD1-RN (01))
Project Start
2012-07-01
Project End
2017-03-31
Budget Start
2012-09-01
Budget End
2013-03-31
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
2012
Total Cost
$195,323
Indirect Cost
$52,823

  Institution

Name
University of the Virgin Islands
Department
Type
DUNS #
090003765
City
St. Thomas
State
VI
Country
United States
Zip Code
00802

  Publications

Campbell, Jacquelyn C; Anderson, Jocelyn C; McFadgion, Akosoa et al. (2018) The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence and Probable Traumatic Brain Injury on Central Nervous System Symptoms. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 27:761-767
Gary, Faye A; Yarandi, Hossein; Evans, Edris et al. (2018) Beck Depression Inventory-II: Factor Analyses with Three Groups of Midlife Women of African Descent in the Midwest, the South, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Issues Ment Health Nurs 39:233-243
Alexander, Kamila A; St Vil, Noelle M; Braithwaite-Hall, Marilyn A et al. (2017) 'Some men just don't want to get hurt': perspectives of U.S. Virgin Islands men toward partner violence and HIV risks. Ethn Health :1-16
St Vil, Noelle M; Sabri, Bushra; Nwokolo, Vania et al. (2017) A Qualitative Study of Survival Strategies Used by Low-Income Black Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence. Soc Work 62:63-71
Sloand, Elizabeth; Killion, Cheryl; Yarandi, Hossein et al. (2017) Experiences of violence and abuse among internally displaced adolescent girls following a natural disaster. J Adv Nurs 73:3200-3208
Campbell, Doris W; Campbell, Jacquelyn C; Yarandi, Hossein N et al. (2016) Violence and abuse of internally displaced women survivors of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Int J Public Health 61:981-992
Sabri, Bushra; Holliday, Charvonne N; Alexander, Kamila A et al. (2016) Cumulative Violence Exposures: Black Women's Responses and Sources of Strength. Soc Work Public Health 31:127-39
Gabriel, Naïka C; Sloand, Elizabeth; Gary, Faye et al. (2016) ""The women, they maltreat them… therefore, we cannot assure that the future society will be good"": Male perspectives on gender-based violence: A focus group study with young men in Haiti. Health Care Women Int 37:773-89
Sabri, Bushra; Huerta, Julia; Alexander, Kamila A et al. (2015) Multiple Intimate Partner Violence Experiences: Knowledge, Access, Utilization and Barriers to Utilization of Resources by Women of the African Diaspora. J Health Care Poor Underserved 26:1286-303
Sloand, Elizabeth; Killion, Cheryl; Gary, Faye A et al. (2015) Barriers and Facilitators to Engaging Communities in Gender-Based Violence Prevention following a Natural Disaster. J Health Care Poor Underserved 26:1377-90

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