NYC Community Engagement Alliance (NYCEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Summary
Established in 2021, NYCEAL consists of approximately 40 organizational partners and 120 Community Health Workers (CHWs). Over the next four years (2024-2028), NYCEAL will work with this network to implement the following intervention: Building Community Resilience Program (BCR). To assess the impact of this intervention, an implementation research framework will be used, and pre- and post-surveys conducted, and other process evaluation measures collected. Changes in outcomes measures such as stress, resilience, overall wellbeing, and other related outcomes for participants in the BCR program will be measured for community healthcare workers and/or frontline workers that receive educational workshops.
Description
BCR Study Design and Methods: To incorporate adequacy and plausibility, approaches in public health research often move beyond randomized trials to better support evaluation and public health decision-making, while being responsive to the three hallmarks of sound study design: minimizing selection and information bias, controlling confounding, and ruling out chance. BCR will leverage a quasi-experimental approach to evaluate the impact of the proposed intervention on participating NYCEAL CBOs' CHWs. The researchers will employ a pre-post non-equivalent waitlist control group design to proactiv…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Able to consent * Able to fill out the screening RedCap short survey * Have access to a computer or smart gadget that will allow participant to be able to join the zoom call * English speaking * Living in NYC (5 boroughs) * 18+ years of age (no upper bound age limit) * Working with an NYCEAL CBO participating in BCR programming Exclusion Criteria: An individual who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study: * Incapacitated to an extent that they are unable to comprehend a conversation or communicate effectively in a group se…
Interventions
- BehavioralBuilding Community Resilience Program (BCR)
To improve CHW resilience and wellbeing, during each BCR cycle, the 6 participating CBOs will send groups of four to six CHWs to six virtual, hour-long, evidence-based interactive workshops (48-72 CHWs over the 2 cycles).
Location
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, New York