[Clinicians] UF Research Study

[Alexandra Mannix]

To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Alexandra Mannix, I am the National Data Collection 
Coordinator for the Behavioral Medicine team at the University of 
Florida. I am working to recruit Health care sites throughout the 
United States to participate in our research. I am hoping you 
might be of some help in our attempts.

This research project is titled the "Patient-Centered Culturally 
Sensitive Health Care and Health Promotion Project" and is funded 
by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The innovative approach of 
this initiative is to have ethnic minority and low-income patients 
define "culturally sensitive/competent health care" for
themselves, rather than having it defined by professional experts 
for them (as is the norm).

Specifically, the project is designed to obtain national data to 
refine: (a) inventories for health care providers and office staff 
to self-assess their cultural sensitivity, (b) an inventory for 
culturally diverse patients to assess the cultural sensitivity of 
their providers and office staff, their health care evironments,
and the health care policies at their health care sites, and (c) a 
novel but practical clinical tool for individualizing 
patient-centered culturally sensitive health care ( i.e., a brief 
inventory that instructs a patient to place checks by the provider 
behaviors and attitudes that are most important to her/him, and 
that is then reviewed by the provider just before meeting with the 
patient).

I can provide you with additional information about the study if 
you decide to assist us in our recruitment, but I have attached a 
benefits flyer regarding both patients and health care providers.

Please let me know if you would like to help us with our innovate 
project!


Thank you,
Alexandra (Lexie) Mannix


National Data Collection Coordinator
Behavioral Medicine Team
University of Florida
Department of Psychology
P.O. Box 112250
Gainesville, Florida 32611-2250

Office: (352) 273- 2153
Cell:   (727) 267-0662
Fax:    (352)392-7985
Email:  amannix at ufl.edu
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