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Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Types of Projects Implemented by Volunteer Lay Health Educators in Their Congregations

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This study focused on the association between type of community health interventions and lay health educator variables. Lay health educators are volunteers from local faith communities who complete a healthcare training program, taught by physicians in-training. Lay health educators are instructed to implement health-related initiatives in their respective communities after graduation. Of the 72 graduates since 2011, we surveyed 55 lay health educators to gain insight into their involvement with their congregation and the type of health projects they have implemented. We dichotomized the health projects into “raising awareness” and “teaching new health skills.” Using adjusted logistic regression models, variables associated with implementing health projects aimed at teaching health skills included length of time as a member of their congregation, current employment, and age. These results may help future programs prepare lay health community educators for the type of health interventions they intend to implement in their respective communities.

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  1. Medicine for the Greater Good, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA

    Panagis Galiatsatos, Katie Nelson, Ashley Park & W. Daniel Hale

  2. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Panagis Galiatsatos

  3. Department of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis, USA

    Krista A. Haapanen

  4. Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Katie Nelson & Hasmin Sherwin

  5. Department of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Mariah Robertson & Kerry Sheets

  6. Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    W. Daniel Hale

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Galiatsatos, P., Haapanen, K.A., Nelson, K. et al. Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Types of Projects Implemented by Volunteer Lay Health Educators in Their Congregations. J Relig Health 57, 1771–1778 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-018-0669-0

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