Maria Au, PhD Student
Department of International Health
Project: SharedCare, Inc.
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Website:http://www.sharedcare.org
Progress in Year 1: SharedCare’s main accomplishment in the year 1 of the J&J grant was to plan and initiate their community-based diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease programs at the Cedar Branch community and its surrounding areas. Much of this conceptualization and planning took place in November 2008, during Site Visit 1. Existing forms were reviewed, including their nursing clinical forms, chronic diseases pre- and post-test questionnaires, and prevention pamphlets. These existing forms were modified and new forms were also developed to capture information collected for their community-based programs.
Katie Bonebrake, PhD Candidate
Department of Mental Health
Project: Northern Navajo Medical Center, Physical Therapy
Location: Shiprock, NM
Target Population: Residents of Navajo reservation located in Shiprock, NM.
Progress in Year 1: The TBA Wellness Program’s main accomplishments in year one of the J&J grant were to establish the Wellness program facility (complete with exercise equipment) in the junior high school and to develop all assessments instruments to be used in the program. During Site Visit One the program goals and objectives were refined. Following this first Site Visit Katie and Tom Schroeder collaborated to develop all assessments forms.
Jillian Fry, PhD Candidate
Department of Health Policy & Management
Project: Navajo Lutheran Mission
Location: Rock Point, AZ
Website: http://www.nelm.org/
Target Population: Medically underserved population in Rock Point, AZ.
Progress in Year One: The clinic facility has been refurbished, needed equipment and supplies have been purchased, and two clinic staff members have been hired (although one left the Mission after about four months of employment). Data collection forms have been developed, and a preliminary database has been created. Capacity related to conceptual framework development; creation of goals, objectives and indicators; development of forms; database creation; and data entry has been expanded through J&J trainings.
Samara Kiihl, PhD Candidate
Department of Biostatistics
Project: Mariposa Community Health Center
Location: Nogales, AZ
Website: http://www.mariposachc.net
Target Population: The economically depressed, under and uninsured population in its service area.
Progress in Year 1: Scholars Component La Vida Buena’s main accomplishment in the year 1 of the J&J grant was to develop the classes, questionnaires, recruit the adolescents and their families. During Site Visit 1, objectives, indicators, forms and questionnaires were reviewed to reflect the project's revised aims.
Sara Rosenthal, PhD Candidate
JH School of Nursing
Project: Margaret J. Weston Community Health Centers
Location: Clearwater, SC
Website: http://www.mjwchc.org
Target Population: Medically underserved population of Clearwater and surrounding counties.
Progress in Year 1: MJWCHC’s major accomplishments for the first year of J&J funding were the development their program goals and objectives for the J&J funding, as well as the design and revision of many of their data collection instruments. The project first focused on developing the goals and objectives and conceptualizing the indicators and measurements required to evaluate the project. Later project staff developed a database to measure their project outcomes. MJWCHC project staff then worked in conjunction with the J&J Scholar to revise some measurement tools to include all pertinent indicators.
Rachana Sikka, PhD Student
Department of Health Behavior & Society
Project: Campesinos Sin Fronteras
Location: Somerton, AZ
Website: http://www.campesinossinfronteras.org
Target Population: Low income, migrant and seasonal farm workers of Yuma County Arizona.
Progress in Year 1: CSF’s main accomplishments in Year 1 of the J&J grant were refining program goals and objectives, developing indicators, revising existing data collection forms and creating a database for data collection and analysis.
Adel Takruri, PhD Candidate
Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health
Project: St. Vincent Regional Medical Center
Location: Santa Fe, NM
Website: http://www.stvin.org
Target Population: Ethnic-minority populations who are at risk for, and/or experiencing high rates of diabetes and obesity, and who face, linguistic, cultural and economic barriers to health care.
Progress in Year 1: The project offered evidence-based self-management for more than 800 individuals. Data need to be analyzed to show how much of these individuals are able to make use of the services they received. For example, 814 individuals received education on normal A1c range, but we need to know how many of them are able to describe the normal range without prompting. Similarly, 814 were taught how to use glucometer. About 66 individuals have participated in the prevention program. Data are being processed to make it possible to measure the indicators for this objective. The project exceeded their target of 2000 by serving a total of 8,007 individuals by May, 17th 2009.
Terri-Ann Thompson, PhD Candidate
Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health
Project: Coastal Family Health Center
Location: Biloxi, MS
Website: http://www.coastalfamilyhealth.com
Target Population: Low income, uninsured and underinsured population of costal Mississippi.
Progress in Year 1: CFHC’s main accomplishments in year 1of the J&J grant were to hire a nutritionist, educate the staff on obesity care and establish the health weight clinic. Additionally, new questionnaires were developed to assess nutrition and physical activity and a database created for data entry.
Tao Wu, PhD Candidate
Department of Epidemiology
Project: Little River Medical Center, Inc.
Location: Little River, SC
Website: http://www.littlerivermedcenter.com
Target Population: Uninsured and minority population of Horry County.
Progress in Year 1: The LRMC’s main accomplishment in the year 1 of the J&J grant was that 216 patients have been recruited into the program and about 350 visits have been completed. Additionally, information of patients collected by current questionnaires were reviewed, and a new Epi Info database was developed and modified from existing forms to capture information collected during the progress of the program.
Tia Zeno, PhD Candidate
Department of Health Behavior & Society
Project: Gulf Coast Health Educators
Location: Pass Christian, MS
Website: Target Population: Low income, underserved population of the Mississippi Gulf coast.
Progress in Year 1: GCHE’s main accomplishment in the first year of their J&J grant was the transformation of their Weight Management and Diabetes programs into functional projects, for both their paper data collection forms and electronic databases. Much of the conceptualization and planning took place in October 2008, during Site Visit 1. Forms were reviewed; diabetes pre- and post-test questionnaires were developed and modified from existing forms to capture information collected during health education classes.