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Outreach Strategies To Recruit Low-Income African American Men To Participate In Health Promotion Programs And Research: Lessons From The Men Of Color Health Awareness (Mocha) Project, Louis F. Graham, Lamont Scott, Erus Lopeyok, Henry Douglas, Aline Gubrium, David Buchanan

Health Promotion and Policy Faculty Publication Series

African American men continue to bear a disproportionate share of the burden of disease. Engaging these men in health research and health promotion programs—especially lower-income, African American men who are vulnerable to chronic disease conditions such as obesity and heart disease—has historically proven quite difficult for researchers and public health practitioners. The few effective outreach strategies identified in the literature to date are largely limited to recruiting through hospital clinics, churches, and barbershops. The Men of Color Health Awareness (MOCHA) project is a grassroots, community-driven initiative that has developed a number of innovative outreach strategies. After describing these strategies, we …

Improving Patients' Understanding Of Their Electronic Medical Record Data In Order To Improve Self-Management - A Quality Improvement Project, Erin Amelia Roth

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects

Background: Patients are increasingly given access to their electronic medical records (EMRs) to help them keep track of their care, but many may have a difficult time understanding what is in them. Programs such as NoteAid assist in translating medical records and may increase the number of patients who actively use their EMRs, a development which may improve the management of chronic diseases.

Purpose: To work on a translation system developed by the University of Massachusetts Informatics group to make outpatient records more understandable for adult patients with chronic disease by using and testing a machine-learning database (NoteAid). Patients’ self-management …