贰尘辫辞诲茅谤补迟别

贰尘辫辞诲茅谤补迟别 (Empower Yourself): Palliative Care Training for Promotores de Salud (Community Health Workers) provided palliative care training for Promotores de Salud (Community Health Workers) using a train-the-trainer model. The California State University (CSU) Institute for Palliative Care partnered with CSU Long Beach (好色先生) Center for Latino Community Health, Evaluation and Leadership Training, and with the Portland-based Familias en Acci贸n to train 75 Spanish-speaking Community Health Workers (promotores de salud) on palliative care and chronic disease topics. Eligibility criteria included: 1) experience as a promotores (paid or volunteer), 2) Spanish-speaking, and 3) able and willing to share information with 10 additional Latino adults.

The settings for the four training workshops included a clinical site (a local hospital campus), a community center (Centro Salud es Cultura), and a business location (an international design firm). The trainings occurred over 14 months from 2017-2018. Each eight-hour training was provided by two Community Health Workers (promotores de salud) from Familias en Acci贸n and were conducted in Spanish using the 贰尘辫辞诲茅谤补迟别: Empower Yourself curriculum.

Funder:

, Gary and Mary West Foundation

Outcomes

  • 76 promtores de salud trained
  • Reach: shared with 2,734 Latino families 
  • 406 sessions replicated

The promotores were asked during 6-month follow-up phone interviews to identify training information that was most helpful to their participants.  Top themes that emerged included how to talk to your doctor (n=19), awareness of patient rights and respectful treatment of patients (n=15), a holistic view of health (e.g. emotional, spiritual, physical, mental) (n=15), how to prepare for a medical appointment (n=10), the Senderos booklets (booklets for health and medication management), chronic disease management (n=12), palliative care definition (n=9), how families can support the palliative care process, medication management support, a better understanding of end-of-life care. Simply creating awareness that help exists was also mentioned as the most helpful component of the workshop.

鈥淓l conocer que tienen derechos como pacientes y se mostraron muy agradecidos por proporcionarles el libro de Senderos ya que esto les facilitar谩 m谩s c贸mo manejar sus medicinas: c贸mo las toman, para qu茅 sirven, cada cu谩ndo las tomas, efectos secundarios, si tiene alergias, si tienen ex谩menes pr贸ximos, o cu谩les ya tienen. En si, dijeron que ser谩 su gu铆a de hoy en adelante.鈥 (The knowledge that they have rights as patients and they were very thankful for the Senderos books since those will help them manage their medications: how to take them, what they are for, when to take them, what secondary effects to expect, what to do if you have an allergic reaction, if you have up-coming exams, or which you have already completed. In short, they said it would be their guide from today forward.)

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Joy Goebel, RN, PhD, FPCN
贰尘辫辞诲茅谤补迟别 Co-PI
School of Nursing
California State University, Long Beach

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Mara Bird, PhD
贰尘辫辞诲茅谤补迟别 Co-PI
Center for Latino Community Health
California State University, Long Beach

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Familias en Acci贸n Educators and Promotores

Olga Gerberg and Pilar Alcantar Trujillo

好色先生 Center for Latino Community Health Promotores de Salud

Ana Romo and Maria Becerra

Research Interns

Jacqueline Garay, Christina Ta, and Eldy Martinez

Center for Latino Community Health Staff

Lorena Martinez and William Lucas