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Identifying churches for community-based mammography promotion: lessons from the LAMP study
Naihua Duan1, Sarah Fox, Kathryn Pitkin Derose
1Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Center for Community Health, University of California at Los Angeles 90024-6543, USA. naihua@mednet.ucla.edu
Summary
Partnering public health with faith communities can promote health education. Religious sources are most effective for church recruitment, while telephone directories offer broader coverage for church-based health programs.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Community Partnerships
- Health Education Research
Background:
- Faith communities offer significant potential for public health initiatives.
- Effective collaboration between public health organizations and religious institutions is crucial for health promotion and research.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe lessons learned from designing and implementing a church-based health partnership.
- To evaluate methods for enumerating and surveying churches for health education programs.
Main Methods:
- The Los Angeles Mammography Promotion in Churches Program (LAMP) partnership was studied.
- Churches were identified using telephone directories, religious networks, chambers of commerce, and newspapers.
- Telephone surveys were compared to mail surveys for data collection.
Main Results:
- Enumerating and surveying churches in urban areas is feasible but challenging.
- Telephone directories provided the widest church coverage.
- Religious sources resulted in the highest recruitment rates.
- Telephone survey methods outperformed mail methods for data collection from churches.
Conclusions:
- Combining telephone directories and religious sources is recommended for church identification in resource-rich programs aiming for comprehensive coverage.
- For programs with limited resources, relying solely on religious sources is advised.
- Tailoring recruitment and data collection strategies to program resources and coverage goals is essential for successful church-based health initiatives.