TY - JOUR
T1 - Voices of community partners
T2 - Perspectives gained from conversations of community-based participatory research experiences
AU - Williamson, Heather J.
AU - Chief, Carmenlita
AU - Jiménez, Dulce
AU - Begay, Andria
AU - Milner, Trudie F.
AU - Sullivan, Shevaun
AU - Torres, Emma
AU - Remiker, Mark
AU - Longorio, Alexandra Elvira Samarron
AU - Sabo, Samantha
AU - Teufel-Shone, Nicolette I.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities center grant, grant number U54MD012388, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative at Northern Arizona University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2020/7/2
Y1 - 2020/7/2
N2 - Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been documented as an effective approach to research with underserved communities, particularly with racial and ethnic minority groups. However, much of the literature promoting the use of CBPR with underserved communities is written from the perspective of the researchers and not from the perspective of the community partner. The purpose of this article is to capture lessons learned from the community partners’ insight gained through their experiences with CBPR. A multi-investigator consensus method was used to qualitatively code the transcripts of a CBPR story-telling video series. Seven major themes were identified: (1) expectations for engaging in research, (2) cultural humility, (3) respecting the partnership, (4) open communication, (5) genuine commitment, (6) valuing strengths and recognizing capacities, and (7) collaborating to yield meaningful results. The themes drawn from the community partner’s voice align with the tenets of CBPR advanced in the academic literature. More opportunities to include the community voice when promoting CBPR should be undertaken to help introduce the concepts to potential community partners who may be research cautious.
AB - Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been documented as an effective approach to research with underserved communities, particularly with racial and ethnic minority groups. However, much of the literature promoting the use of CBPR with underserved communities is written from the perspective of the researchers and not from the perspective of the community partner. The purpose of this article is to capture lessons learned from the community partners’ insight gained through their experiences with CBPR. A multi-investigator consensus method was used to qualitatively code the transcripts of a CBPR story-telling video series. Seven major themes were identified: (1) expectations for engaging in research, (2) cultural humility, (3) respecting the partnership, (4) open communication, (5) genuine commitment, (6) valuing strengths and recognizing capacities, and (7) collaborating to yield meaningful results. The themes drawn from the community partner’s voice align with the tenets of CBPR advanced in the academic literature. More opportunities to include the community voice when promoting CBPR should be undertaken to help introduce the concepts to potential community partners who may be research cautious.
KW - Action research
KW - Community-based participatory research
KW - Community-based research
KW - Community-engaged research
KW - Minority health
KW - Participatory research
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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph17145245
DO - 10.3390/ijerph17145245
M3 - Article
C2 - 32708111
AN - SCOPUS:85088268426
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 17
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - International journal of environmental research and public health
JF - International journal of environmental research and public health
IS - 14
M1 - 5245
ER -