Abstract

Four in every ten North Carolinians will develop cancer during their lives. It is evident that cancer is a major health concern as well as major health disparity, not only with regards to gender and racial differences but geographically as well. The Carolina Community Network (CCN) has set as its mission to reduce prostate, breast and colorectal cancer disparities among adult African Americans by leveraging longstanding university-community relationships and the community-based participatory research expertise at UNC to enhance and extend cancer education and research, research training, and cancer health policy in both secular and faith-based communities. Specifically, the CCN will: educate both researchers and community members about cancer health disparities and methods of ameliorating them;train a cadre of academic and community researchers to implement and disseminate best cancer prevention and intervention practices;conduct community based participatory research;change treatment and care-seeking patterns for residents of the communities and identify areas for the development or modification of health policy in the area of cancer prevention and treatment to ultimately eliminate cancer health disparities in North Carolina. The Carolina Community Network will form a pipeline of cancer education and cancer research projects that will be tailored and piloted in both secular and faith based community settings. The long term goals of the CCN are to: 1) improve utilization of beneficial cancer interventions;2) increase the number of minorities in clinical trials and other forms of research;3) strengthen the community's knowledge of cancer disparities and treatment;and 4) impact cancer prevention and control policies. The Carolina Community Network is well positioned to address these cancer health disparities because of the depth and breadth of the community-based participatory research expertise at UNC, the availability of contrasting faith-based and secular community partners, and the established ties to community groups.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Research Project--Cooperative Agreements (U01)
Project #
5U01CA114629-05
Application #
7658909
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZCA1-SRRB-Y (J1))
Program Officer
Das, Rina
Project Start
2005-05-06
Project End
2012-06-30
Budget Start
2009-05-01
Budget End
2012-06-30
Support Year
5
Fiscal Year
2009
Total Cost
$722,192
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Department
Internal Medicine/Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
608195277
City
Chapel Hill
State
NC
Country
United States
Zip Code
27599

  Publications

Allicock, Marlyn; Golin, Carol E; Kaye, Leanne et al. (2017) SafeTalk: Training Peers to Deliver a Motivational Interviewing HIV Prevention Program. Health Promot Pract 18:410-417
Allicock, Marlyn; Haynes-Maslow, Lindsey; Johnson, La-Shell et al. (2017) Peer Connect for African American breast cancer survivors and caregivers: a train-the-trainer approach for peer support. Transl Behav Med 7:495-505
Vines, Anissa I; Carpenter, William R; Chen, Ronald C et al. (2017) Responding to a Community's Concern: A Comparison of Breast Cancer Characteristics and Initial Treatment in Three Selected North Carolina Counties. N C Med J 78:357-365
Powell, Wizdom; Banks, Kira Hudson; Mattis, Jacqueline S (2017) Buried hatchets, marked locations: Forgiveness, everyday racial discrimination, and African American men's depressive symptomatology. Am J Orthopsychiatry 87:646-662
Zullig, Leah L; Fortune-Britt, Alice G; Rao, Shangbang et al. (2016) Enrollment and Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment Clinical Trials in North Carolina. N C Med J 77:52-8
Vines, Anissa I; Hunter, Jaimie C; White, Brandolyn S et al. (2016) Building Capacity in a Rural North Carolina Community to Address Prostate Health Using a Lay Health Advisor Model. Health Promot Pract 17:364-72
Powell, Wizdom; Adams, Leslie B; Cole-Lewis, Yasmin et al. (2016) Masculinity and Race-Related Factors as Barriers to Health Help-Seeking Among African American Men. Behav Med 42:150-63
Cobran, Ewan K; Chen, Ronald C; Overman, Robert et al. (2016) Racial Differences in Diffusion of Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer. Am J Mens Health 10:399-407
Braun, Kathryn L; Stewart, Susan; Baquet, Claudia et al. (2015) The National Cancer Institute's Community Networks Program Initiative to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities: Outcomes and Lessons Learned. Prog Community Health Partnersh 9 Suppl:21-32
Blakeney, Natasha; Michaels, Margo; Green, Melissa et al. (2015) Collaborative development of clinical trials education programs for African-American community-based organizations. J Cancer Educ 30:400-6

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