Summer 2024 - Internship Project
Spearheaded a preliminary follow-up needs assessment on the Community Health Centers (CHCs) that previously participated in AAPCHO’s 2022 LTBI/TB Needs Assessment.
The aims of this project was to:
1. Evaluate the current needs, protocols, and promising practices for LTBI/TB screening, testing, and treatment among the CHCs that participated in the 2022 LTBI/TB needs assessment.
2. Create an initial guideline for carrying out a comprehensive needs assessment in the future, aimed at addressing the social and cultural barriers to LTBI/TB testing, treatment, and education within high-risk populations.
Research Findings: Analysis of the survey responses and interview feedback identified seven key challenges and barriers, as well as six promising practices generated by the community. These
challenges, barriers, and promising practices remained consistent with those seen in the 2022 needs assessment. Key differences included an increase in refugee TB/LTBI patients and LTBI case-load burden compared to TB.
The project successfully identified key areas where current protocols can be improved and highlighted effective practices that have emerged.
Team: Riana Tadeo (Project Lead), Chibo Shinagawa (Program Manager), Mukta Deia (Secondary Editor)
Project Duration: 6 weeks
Tools: SurveyMonkey, Bit.ly, Zoom, Google Suites (Gmail, Docs, Sheets)
Skills: survey creation & dissemination, community outreach & engagement, research, data analysis
A survey was created using SurveyMonkey to address the recommendations of the 2022 LTBI/TB needs assessment and the 16 applicable CHCs that had previously responded were reached out to again via email correspondence to complete the 2024 LTBI/TB follow-up needs assessment survey.
Based on survey responses, a follow-up interview was scheduled with survey respondents to further assess trends.
Following the analysis of survey and interview responses, recommendations were developed to help CHCs address the social and cultural barriers that impede LTBI/TB testing, treatment, and education among high-risk populations.
The survey for this needs assessment was modeled after the 2022 LTBI/TB needs assessment survey created on SurveyMonkey. The survey was only live for two weeks due to internship time constraints and was distributed to applicable participants via email correspondence. Out of the 16 qualifying CHCs, 4 submitted survey responses.
Framer 2024
Riana Tadeo