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Changes in Empowerment: Effects of Participation in a Lay Health Promotion Program
Victoria K. Booker, MSW, MPH
Midwest Migrant Health Information Office, Monroe, Michigan
June Grube Robinson, RD, MPH
Midwest Migrant Health Information Office, Monroe, Michigan
Bonnie J. Kay, PhD
Midwest Migrant Health Information Office
Lourdes Gutierrez Najera, MA, MJW
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Genevieve Stewart, MPH
Midwest Migrant Health Information Office
The Camp Health Aide Program is a lay health promotion program for migrant and seasonal farmworkers. The program increases access to health care while facilitating leadership development and empowerment of individual farmworkers through training and experience as lay health promoters (camp health aides [CHAs]). This article describes a study which documents impacts on the CHAs of working as lay health promoters in terms of changes in personal empowerment. The authors developed a working definition of personal empowerment and interviewed 27 CHAs at three program sites (Arizona, New Jersey, and Florida) at hree different times. CHAs are grouped in five descriptive categories reflecting varying degrees of change in empowerment over this period. Of the total group of 27 CHAs, 24 exhibited some increase in personal empowerment during the study period. These changes are described in detail, and implications are discussed.
Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 24, No. 4,
452-464 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/109019819702400405
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