Involving families in an urban HIV preventive intervention: how community collaboration addresses barriers to participation.
This article addresses the increasing need within urban communities for effective, culturally relevant HIV prevention programs. The recruitment efforts of a family-based prevention program aimed at promoting health and preventing HIV risk exposure in urban, African American fourth and fifth grade children living in a community with high rates of HIV infection is detailed. The program, referred to as the CHAMP (Chicago HIV Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Project) Family Program, is overseen by a collaborative partnership of community parents, school staff, and university-based researchers (Paikoff & McKay, 1995). The recruitment strategies developed as a result of this community-research collaboration are described. Preliminary results of the project's efforts to reach out to families within the targeted, inner-city community are presented.
McCormick
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University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
McKay
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Wilson
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McKinney
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Paikoff
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Bell
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Baptiste
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Coleman
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Gillming
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Madison
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Scott
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D001741:Black or African American; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005190:Family; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014481:United States; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*