Linking Individual Needs to Community and Clinical Services

Summary

For 15 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded Arizona Prevention Research Center (AzPRC) has been engaged in academic community collaborative research to reduce chronic disease health disparities among the Latino border communities in Arizona, which positions the center well to contribute to CDC's current winnable battle of nutrition, physical activity and obesity. The AzPRC's research study Linking Individual Needs to Community and Clinical Services (LINKS) will implement and evaluate a CHW-delivered preventive program linking primary care settings dedicated to reaching the under-served with community services that are county-delivered or -based. By developing community-clinical linkages, the AzPRC will help ensure access to, and quality of, culturally relevant prevention and promotion efforts. These efforts will result in a sustainable and scalable CHW model program that reduces obesity and associated chronic disease, and improves overall health in under-served communities at the Arizona U.S.-Mexico border.

Conditions

• Chronic Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

LINKS

The primary aim of LINKS is to create community-clinical linkages between three community health centers and their respective county health departments in southern Arizona. This study will also develop and evaluate a chronic disease and emotional well-being intervention that will connect clinic patients to community-centered, county-delivered, community health worker programs.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Pima County Health Department

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Yuma County Health District

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• El Rio Community Health Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Sunset Community Health Center

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Mariposa Community Health Center

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Arizona Community Health Outreach Workers Association (AzCHOW)

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Abby Lohr

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Scott C Carvajal, PhD, MPH · University of Arizona Prevention Research Center

Eligibility

Min Age

21 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-07-14

Primary Completion

2019-04-30

Completion

2019-09-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations