{"id":4782,"date":"2021-10-20T12:23:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T19:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/center-health-equity-research\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2024-07-01T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:49:26","slug":"dine-college-nau-relatives-about-vaccine-education-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/dine-college-nau-relatives-about-vaccine-education-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Din\u00e9 College public health students provide vaccine education to Navajo Nation residents through study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/COVID-vaxed-photos-resizedjpg.jpg\" alt=\"Someone receiving COVID vaccine shot in the arm .\" class=\"wp-image-10636\" width=\"537\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/COVID-vaxed-photos-resizedjpg.jpg 900w, https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/COVID-vaxed-photos-resizedjpg-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/COVID-vaxed-photos-resizedjpg-768x585.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the Navajo Nation has been a U.S. leader in COVID-19 vaccine uptake throughout most of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy does exist there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through a grant from the National Institutes of Health, a research team from the <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/navajo-native-american-research-center-for-health-partnership\/\" data-type=\"page\">Navajo Native American Research Center for Health (NARCH)<\/a> Partnership will be working with Din\u00e9 College public health students to address adults\u2019 vaccine questions and hesitancy to increase the number of vaccinated people across the Navajo Nation. The Navajo NARCH Partnership is a collaboration between Din\u00e9 College, a tribal college of the Navajo Nation, and Northern Arizona University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the project are: <strong>Nicolette Teufel-Shone<\/strong>, associate director, NAU Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) and professor in the NAU Department of Health Sciences; <strong>Jamie Wilson<\/strong>, CHER research associate; <strong>Marissa Tutt,<\/strong> CHER research coordinator; <strong>Chassity Begay<\/strong> and <strong>DeeDee James<\/strong>, NAU graduate students in the Master of Public Health program, Indigenous Health track; <strong>Mark Bauer<\/strong>, professor at Din\u00e9 College; <strong>Carmella Kahn<\/strong>, assistant professor at Din\u00e9 College; <strong>Christopher Dickerson<\/strong>, assistant professor at Din\u00e9 College; and <strong>Amber-Rose Waters<\/strong>, project coordinator with Din\u00e9 College\u2019s public health program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study, Din\u00e9 Teachings and Public Health Students Informing Peers and Relatives about Vaccine Education (RAVE), has three goals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Document vaccine hesitancy stories from a minimum of 25% of Din\u00e9 College\u2019s students, faculty, and staff and log their perception of their peers\u2019 and family members\u2019 vaccine hesitancy.<\/li><li>Train a minimum of 35 Din\u00e9 College public health students as health messengers able to provide culturally centered, scientifically valid education about vaccine safety to a minimum of 10 Navajo Nation residents each.<\/li><li>Document change in a minimum of 350 Din\u00e9 adults\u2019 knowledge of vaccine safety after receiving the education provided by a health messenger.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis project gives undergraduate public health students an opportunity to gain direct experience with community-based health education and as emerging public health professionals, to contribute to reducing the spread of COVID-19 on the Navajo Nation,\u201d Teufel-Shone said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multiple research studies have proven that trusted health messengers offering culturally centered health education to people on the Navajo Nation effectively leads to behavior change. Using this information, the research team will first interview Din\u00e9 Traditional Knowledge Holders to document cultural teachings that address individual and collective health behaviors to inform the development of the materials for the health messengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Din\u00e9 public health students will then be trained as health messengers to deliver culturally centered, scientifically accurate vaccine safety information and use Din\u00e9-specific relationships and etiquette to talk to peers and relatives who self-identify as vaccine hesitant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The Navajo NARCH Partnerships is funded by the National Institute of Health\u2019s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (3S06GM123550-04S1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the Navajo Nation has been a U.S. leader in COVID-19 vaccine uptake throughout most of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy does exist there. 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