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Rhodora Ursua, MPH¹, Noilyn Abesamis, MPH¹, Kalusugan Coalition², Darius Tandon, PhD³, Chau-Trinh Shevrin, DrPH¹, and Mariano Rey, MD⁴. (1) NYU Center for Study of Asian American Health, 550 First Avenue, MSB-153, New York, NY 10016, 212-263-3776, rhodora.ursua@med.nyu.edu, (2) c/o Center for the Study of Asian American Health, P.O. Box 2463, New York, NY 10009, (3) School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1620 McElderry Street, 203 Reed Hall, Baltimore, MD 21205, (4) Dean's Office, NYU School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, SLH, New York, NY 10016

Background and Significance: Filipino Americans exhibit higher rates of hypertension compared to White and other Asian American counterparts. They also experience barriers to effective disease management, including a lack of culturally and linguistically appropriate screening and educational materials, limited knowledge of health care systems, and lack of health insurance. Few interventions, however, have focused on controlling risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Filipino Americans and these studies have primarily targeted communities in California, Hawaii and Washington. Methods: Using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, an academic medical center worked with community-based organizations and community members serving the Filipino American community in New York and New Jersey to develop Project AsPIRE (Asian American Partnerships for Research and Empowerment). The goal of the project is to pilot and implement a culturally- and linguistically-appropriate community health worker intervention to raise levels of awareness, education, screening and management of hypertension. To accomplish this, CBPR capacity building trainings were conducted with all academic and community partners in Project AsPIRE, and a community health needs and resource assessment related to cardiovascular health was conducted. Results and Discussion: Project partners successfully developed an infrastructure to develop and implement a community health worker intervention tailored to the Filipino American community. The presentation will discuss 1) challenges and lessons learned from the partnership development process between an academic institution and a Filipino community health coalition in NYC 2) strategies for gaining community buy-in for a research study 3) culturally appropriate outreach and recruitment strategies; and 4) preliminary study findings.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to

• identify strategies to engage the Filipino, and other communities, in a community-based participatory research project and
• apply lessons learned about partnership building with Asian immigrant and other minority populations.

Keywords: Participatory Research, Hypertension

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

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