Interdisciplinary communication and collaboration among physicians, nurses, and unlicensed assistive personnel.

Purpose: Historically, health care has primarily focused on physician, nurse, and allied healthcare provider triads. Using a phenomenological approach, this study explores the potential for hospital-based interdisciplinary care provided by physicians, nurses, and unlicensed assistive personnel (UAPs).

Design: This phenomenological study used a purposive nonprobability, criterion-based, convenience sample from a metropolitan hospital.

A rural African American faith community's solutions to depression disparities.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore how a rural African American faith community would address depression within their congregations and the community as a whole.

Design And Sample: A qualitative, interpretive descriptive methodology was used. The sample included 24 participants representing pastors, parishioners interested in health, and African American men who had experienced symptoms of depression in a community in the Arkansas Delta.

Barriers to diagnosis and treatment of depression: voices from a rural African-American faith community.

Mental health disparities exist for rural African-Americans regarding the early detection of depression and its effective treatment. Disparities that are evident in rural communities include limited mental health resources and the stigma of depression. The faith community has a long-standing history of being the initial source of help to those who experience depression.

"Too blessed to be stressed": a rural faith community's views of African-American males and depression.

Among African-Americans, the faith community has a long history of providing support to its members. Because African-American men tend to delay and decline traditional depression treatment, the faith community may be an effective source of support. The aim of this study was to determine how a rural African-American faith community describes and perceives experiences of depression among African-American males.

Evaluating coalition capacity to strengthen community-academic partnerships addressing cancer disparities.

The Arkansas Cancer Connection Program is a community-academic partnership between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and nine community-based coalitions designed to address cancer health disparities through community-based participatory research. In 2005, a survey measuring coalition capacity was administered to 51 Cancer Council members to assess training needs and increase coalition capacity. The highest scoring components were leadership and member engagement while the lowest were development and capacity effectiveness.