Training Mixtec Promotores to Assess Health Concerns in their Community: A CBPR Pilot Study

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• Alternative Title:
  J Immigr Minor Health
• Personal Author:
  Maxwell, Annette E. ; Young, Sandra ; Vega, Roena Rabelo ; Herrmann, Alison K. ; See, Cha ; Glenn, Beth A. ; Mistry, Ritesh ; Bastani, Roshan
• Description:
  Background
  
  An academic institution and a community organization partnered for one of the first studies assessing health needs of Mixtecs, indigenous immigrants from Southern Mexico, residing in Ventura County, California.
  
  Methods
  
  Ten bilingual Spanish- and Mixteco- speaking promotores received a one-day focus group training, participated in a focus group themselves and conducted 5 focus groups with 42 Mixtec community members.
  
  Results
  
  The focus group training is described. Health concerns discussed in the focus groups include outdoor exercise among women viewed as flirtatious; reluctance to ask for governmental assistance due to fear that children will have to pay back later; soda consumption perceived as a symbol of socio-economic status; and unwillingness to obtain mammograms or pap smears because private body parts are to be touched by husbands only.
  
  Discussion
  
  Training promotores to conduct focus groups can increase organizational capacity to identify pressing health needs in under-represented and hard-to-reach population groups.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Article California Community Capacity Building Community Health Workers Emigrants And Immigrants Female Focus Groups Focus Group Training Health Promotion Humans Male Mexico Mixtec Needs Assessment Pilot Projects

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• Source:
  J Immigr Minor Health. 16(2):310-313.
• Pubmed ID:
  22940912
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3529740
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  NIH U54 CA143931/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States ; U48DP001934/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; U54 CA143930/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  16
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:92bdffc19bf6bcd25ec3f7378827c268b1f50c4a0abbda13797b8f2ed4ae1e39
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/29615/cdc_29615_DS1.pdf
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