Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Volume 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 310-313

Training mixtec promotores to assess health concerns in their community: A cbpr pilot study (Article)

Maxwell A.E.* , Young S. , Rabelo Vega R. , Herrmann A.K. , See C. , Glenn B.A. , Mistry R. , Bastani R.
  • a Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 956900 A2-125 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900, United States
  • b Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP), Oxnard, CA, United States
  • c Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 956900 A2-125 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900, United States
  • d Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 956900 A2-125 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900, United States
  • e Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 956900 A2-125 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900, United States
  • f Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 956900 A2-125 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900, United States
  • g Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 956900 A2-125 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900, United States
  • h Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 956900 A2-125 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900, United States

Abstract

An academic institution and a community organization partnered for one of the first studies assessing health needs of Mixtecs, indigenous immigrants from Southern Mexico, residing in Ventura County, California. Ten bilingual Spanish- and Mixteco-speaking promotores received a 1-day focus group training, participated in a focus group themselves and conducted 5 focus groups with 42 Mixtec community members. The focus group training is described. Health concerns discussed in the focus groups include outdoor exercise among women viewed as flirtatious; reluctance to ask for governmental assistance due to fear that children will have to pay back later; soda consumption perceived as a symbol of socio-economic status; and unwillingness to obtain mammograms or pap smears because private body parts are to be touched by husbands only. Training promotores to conduct focus groups can increase organizational capacity to identify pressing health needs in under-represented and hard-to-reach population groups. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Author Keywords

Needs assessment Community capacity building Mixtec Focus group training

Index Keywords

information processing education Community Health Workers health promotion human health auxiliary ethnology Mexico procedures United States Humans migrant California male Emigrants and Immigrants female pilot study Pilot Projects Focus Groups
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84896389952&doi=10.1007%2fs10903-012-9709-0&partnerID=40&md5=fcc602176c4f8c79283e871ed32131a1
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-012-9709-0
ISSN: 15571912
Cited by: 4
Original Language: English