Research

Our solution is to create a community-based nationwide network of FAPCOR nayon (villages) to engage FAs in their healthcare. The network will provide the infrastructure for engaging FAs and other key community stakeholders to address the specific needs of FAs to make informed healthcare decisions as well as engage in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and comparative effectiveness research (CER) to promote patient outcomes. The project titled has been funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) for 2019-2021 (24 months). Project information are provided below:

Project title: Mag-PCOR Muna Tayo: Nationwide Capacity Building for Filipino-Americans engage in PCOR and CER

Project lead: M. Danet Lapiz-Bluhm, PhD, RN, MSCI

Project summary: Available on PCORI Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute website

Our objective is to create a national model for effective FA community engagement and healthcare empowerment, the FAPCOR. By building capacity among FAs and key stakeholders, FAs will be better equipped to participate and engage in meaningful PCOR and CER activities.

Short Term Objectives

1. To engage FAs and key stakeholders in productive collaborative discussion of PCOR/CER.

2. To identify what FAs need to make highly effective, better-informed healthcare decisions.

3. To identify the critical gaps in knowledge and the PCOR/CER priorities among FAs.

4. To identify how FAs want to receive their PCOR and CER findings.

Long Term Objectives

Our project objective is to develop the PCOR Community Capacity Building and Engagement Toolkit for Filipino-Americans (hereafter referred to as Toolkit). This Toolkit will include a communication plan, capacity-building and engagement strategies, and resources based upon identified needs of each of the FAPCOR “nayon.” It will be useful for researchers to increase the understanding of what FAs need to make informed healthcare decisions, their potential engagement in PCOR/CER, and how they want to receive PCOR and CER findings.

Population

Our project will create a FAPCOR nayon in each of the 5 states where there is a significant population of FAs: California, Hawaii, Texas, New Jersey, and New York. The FAPCOR network will leverage on the infrastructure of the Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA), and the unique role of nurses in community health promotion and engagement. FAPCOR nayon leaders are PNAA member nurses who are actively engaged in their communities in the identified 5 states have been recruited and are committed to the proposed project. These states were selected because they have the most active membership of the PNAA. These states also have emerging research infrastructures targeting Asian Americans (Abesamis-Mendoza et al., 2007). These burgeoning research infrastructures can be potential mechanisms in which Filipino-Americans can participate and engage in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and comparative effectiveness research (CER).