TY - JOUR
T1 - It’s complicated
T2 - Negotiating between traditional research and community-based participatory research in a translational study
AU - Hopkins, Allison L.
AU - Moore-Monroy, Martha
AU - Wilkinson-Lee, Ada M.
AU - Nuño, Velia Leybas
AU - Armenta, Alexandra
AU - Lopez, Elvia
AU - Vanzzini, Susan
AU - Garcia, Francisco A.R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality R24HS022016. The authors acknowledge the essential contributions of the Pima County Cervical Cancer Prevention Partnership to this project. Special recognition goes to the Community Health Workers for their dedication to the prevention of illness among the Hispanic community in Pima County. Last, the authors thank the community members for their participation in this project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Johns Hopkins University Press.
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - Background: The Interactive Systems Framework (ISF), a guide for translational research, encourages the balancing of traditional research and community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches. Objectives: This paper focuses on the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned in applying the ISF to our translational research project. Methods: A community–campus partnership translated evidence-based screening guidelines on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and depression into culturally relevant educational materials. Community health workers (CHWs) disseminated the information through a cross-over design to Hispanic women in Pima County, Arizona. Challenges, solutions, and lessons learned were identified throughout this process. Lessons Learned: We identified challenges in the areas of research design, and in the ISF systems of prevention synthesis and translation, prevention support, and prevention delivery. We successfully negotiate solutions between the scientific and local community that resulted in acceptable compromises for both groups. Conclusions: The model presented by the ISF is difficult to achieve, but we offer concrete solutions to community members and scientists to move toward that ideal.
AB - Background: The Interactive Systems Framework (ISF), a guide for translational research, encourages the balancing of traditional research and community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches. Objectives: This paper focuses on the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned in applying the ISF to our translational research project. Methods: A community–campus partnership translated evidence-based screening guidelines on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and depression into culturally relevant educational materials. Community health workers (CHWs) disseminated the information through a cross-over design to Hispanic women in Pima County, Arizona. Challenges, solutions, and lessons learned were identified throughout this process. Lessons Learned: We identified challenges in the areas of research design, and in the ISF systems of prevention synthesis and translation, prevention support, and prevention delivery. We successfully negotiate solutions between the scientific and local community that resulted in acceptable compromises for both groups. Conclusions: The model presented by the ISF is difficult to achieve, but we offer concrete solutions to community members and scientists to move toward that ideal.
KW - Community health workers
KW - Community-based participatory research
KW - Curriculum
KW - Primary prevention
KW - Sociology and social phenomena
KW - Southwestern United States
KW - Translational research
KW - Women’s health
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U2 - 10.1353/cpr.2016.0049
DO - 10.1353/cpr.2016.0049
M3 - Article
C2 - 28230550
AN - SCOPUS:84994715688
SN - 1557-0541
VL - 10
SP - 425
EP - 433
JO - Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action
JF - Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action
IS - 3
ER -