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Developing Community Partnerships Through Research to Define Community Well-Being With Three (Diné) Navajo Communities

NCT05937087 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 61

Last updated 2024-05-09

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Summary

This community engaged research pilot project begins a process of engaging Navajo community members from the communities of Counselor, Ojo Encino, and Torreon chapters in northwest New Mexico in critical dialogue and praxis to address longstanding health disparities. The research design is based on a Tribal Crit theoretical framework that aims to explore the perspectives of community members' understandings of wellbeing from a Diné centered paradigm using a community based participatory research approach integrated with a Diné-centered scientific research methodology. The proposed aims include using the Diné conceptualization of K'é (kinship) to define community wellbeing with future plans to build upon this knowledge by developing a community profile survey for obtaining baseline community health information that can be used to inform future research studies. A long-term goal of this mixed-method, community-based participatory research (CBPR) study is to create a community-university research partnership in an Indigenous context by establishing a multi-dimensional, Diné-centered research infrastructure with the capacity to improve mental/behavioral health outcomes and reduce health disparities. The creation of this infrastructure is a critical first step that will make it possible to use health research to positively transform the health landscape in Indigenous communities

Conditions

  • Behavior, Health
  • Mental Health Wellness 1
  • Community

Interventions

OTHER

Community engaged research

The university is working with Navajo communities to conduct an intervention study integrating community based participatory research using an Indigenous research paradigm. The innovative proposed project uses two approaches to build a research partnership to create capacity in the community for community-engaged multilevel behavioral and mental health research. Members from the three Navajo communities have never previously been involved in health research focused on wellbeing. Integrating CBPR with DCSR methodology becomes a powerful innovative intervention as the: 1) the community is driving the research to identify culture-based solutions for health related disparities; 2) the community is provided opportunities through research to center their perspectives and understandings about behavioral and mental health interventions; and 3) the community draws upon their collective community Indigenous knowledge.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of New Mexico

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
102 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-03-17
Primary Completion
2019-06-30
Completion
2019-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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