Cultural Appropriateness of Digital Literacy Resources – ACTIVATE Program
The goal of the ACTIVATE program is to encourage telehealth/telemental health and remote monitoring as cost-effective components for health/mental health improvement, reaching and providing maximum benefit to at-risk and vulnerable populations (i.e., farmworkers). Dr. Manzo and Micaela Velasco Sandoval reviewed the appropriateness of the digital skills set of each of the resources. This provided a comparative analysis of the cultural appropriateness and served as the basis for the development of a qualitative protocol to systematically evaluate the cultural appropriateness of the resources with 12 co-designers. The ACTIVATE co-designers engaged in adapting the information by integrating the Ecological Validity Model to ensure that these new resources included cultural and linguistic elements that would resonate with the targeted population. The scripts were used by Diverse Health Hub to develop short videos and resources to enhance digital literacy among the ACTIVATE population. The UCM team and the co-designers met on a regular basis with the Diverse Health Hub team to provide feedback to finalize the digital literacy resources.
Virtual Community-Engaged Approach to Training Medical Students in Response to COVID-19 Restrictions
Trained in diabetes management, Promotoras de Salud planned and led a virtual diabetes management home visit program. Researchers paired trained Promotoras with SJV PRIME medical students participating in ASPIRE 2020 Summer Fellowship program to assist and shadow Promotoras delivering virtual home diabetes management patient visits. Promotoras provided coaching to medical students on patient interaction, community wide resources and collaborated with students to develop health education and promotion materials for dissemination in communities beyond the diabetes management curriculum.
This pilot community-based training program aimed to gain preliminary findings on efficacy in pairing medical students with Promotoras to deliver care to improve community health. The study gathered preliminary findings of early exposure to communities through community-based learning in medical school.
Asthma Virtual Home Intervention with Camarena Health Community Health Workers / Promotoras
This study is an extension of the community-engagement education model, an asthma management program conducted by Dr. Rosa D. Manzo. During the Summer of 2021, the project paired SJV PRIME Medical Student participating in ASPIRE Summer Fellowship with trained Promotoras to deliver virtual asthma management home visits to community members. Promotoras planned and led the asthma management interventions with community members. Researchers paired trained Promotoras with SJV PRIME medical students participating in ASPIRE 2021 Summer Fellowship program to assist and shadow Promotoras delivering virtual asthma management patient visits. Promotoras provided coaching to medical students on patient interaction, community wide resources and collaborated with students to develop health education and promotion materials for dissemination in communities beyond the diabetes management curriculum. The study used a snowballing technique to recruit asthma patients at Camarena Health clinics and community centers until Fall 2022.
