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This paper explores the characteristics of congregation-based substance abuse disorder treatment programs in a diverse sample of urban religious congregations.
We describe the rationale and design of a 2-arm cluster randomized trial to test a religiously-tailored HIV testing intervention against a standard information arm on HIV testing rates among AA church members and community members they serve.
The present systematic literature review of church-based interventions was conducted to assess their efficacy for addressing obesity across different racial/ethnic groups (eg, African Americans, Latinos).
Current legislation requires resilience to be considered but does not provide guidance for how to incorporate it into the transportation planning process. In this report, RAND researchers outline an approach to incorporate resilience into an existing transportation vulnerability assessment framework. It is focused on the resilience capacities of absorptive capacity, restorative capacity, equitable access, and adaptive capacity (AREA).
The objective of this study is to investigate the extent to which congregation-based food provision fluctuated with national food insecurity prevalence for the overall population, and for subgroups vulnerable to this condition.
A qualitative approach was used to explore the impact of an HIV diagnosis on women in the Dominican Republic and coping strategies after diagnosis. We conducted in-depth, semistructured interviews with a purposive sample of women living with HIV.
This study explores the feasibility of using text messaging to send healthy eating and active living messages to congregants from churches whose membership were predominantly AA or Latino that participated in an intervention to address obesity.
This study was conducted to determine the feasibility of conducting a cost-benefit evaluation of federally-funded media campaigns encouraging mental health help-seeking among United States military personnel and veterans.
The California campaign increased service use by leading more individuals to interpret symptoms of distress as indicating a need for treatment.
Contributes a theoretical framework and constructs a quantitative model to study systemic cyber risk and aggregate impacts.
