TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethnic Minority Women's Experiences with Intimate Partner Violence
T2 - Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Ask the Right Questions
AU - White, Jacquelyn W.
AU - Yuan, Nicole P.
AU - Cook, Sarah L.
AU - Abbey, Antonia
N1 - Funding Information:
Although the challenges are significant, they must not serve as barriers to using CBPR in IPV research. CBPR is helping to advance several fields and is being supported by several federal funding sources, including CDC, National Institutes of Health, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Horowitz et al. 2009). CBPR has the potential to improve our knowledge of IPV within the context of specific communities and cultures in a manner that cannot be achieved with other frameworks (Shoultz et al. 2006). Benefits of academic-community partnerships extend beyond instrument development and can result in community empowerment and capacity to reduce IPV. The many steps involved in identifying and labeling common forms of IPV within a community, may foster an environment that is more supportive and protective of survivors. Violence researchers need to join efforts to advocate for policy changes and promote paradigm shifts in standard research practices, timelines, and reward systems to support greater use of CBPR.
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - Current definitions, instruments, and processes for measuring intimate partner violence, including sexual assault, are insufficient to detect the nature and scope of violence against all women. To remedy this problem, we recommend the use of community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles to develop culturally informed quantitative instruments that measure ethnic minority women's experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV). CBPR requires community members and researchers to work equitably together throughout the research process, sharing decision-making and ownership. This paper identifies problems with current measurement approaches and describes the strengths and challenges of the CBPR approach. We argue that this research orientation offers the potential for "flexible standardization" that can provide better estimates of the extent of IPV and sexual assault, and provide communities with the knowledge they need to address these problems in a culturally sensitive manner.
AB - Current definitions, instruments, and processes for measuring intimate partner violence, including sexual assault, are insufficient to detect the nature and scope of violence against all women. To remedy this problem, we recommend the use of community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles to develop culturally informed quantitative instruments that measure ethnic minority women's experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV). CBPR requires community members and researchers to work equitably together throughout the research process, sharing decision-making and ownership. This paper identifies problems with current measurement approaches and describes the strengths and challenges of the CBPR approach. We argue that this research orientation offers the potential for "flexible standardization" that can provide better estimates of the extent of IPV and sexual assault, and provide communities with the knowledge they need to address these problems in a culturally sensitive manner.
KW - Community-based participatory research
KW - Cultural appropriateness
KW - Ethnic minority women
KW - Immigrant women
KW - Intimate partner violence
KW - Measurement
KW - Qualitative and quantitative research
KW - Sexual assault
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U2 - 10.1007/s11199-012-0237-0
DO - 10.1007/s11199-012-0237-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84880134350
SN - 0360-0025
VL - 69
SP - 226
EP - 236
JO - Sex Roles
JF - Sex Roles
IS - 3-4
ER -