Much Ventured, Much Gained: Community-Engaged Data Collection by Adolescents and Young Adults

Community-engaged data collection offers an important opportunity to build community capacity to harness the power of data and create social change. To share lessons learned from engaging 16 adolescents and young adults from a partner community to collect data for a public opinion survey as part of...

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Published in:Progress in community health partnerships 2016, Vol.10 (2), p.217-224
Main Authors: Ramanadhan, Shoba, Nagler, Rebekah H, McCauley, Michael P, Lora, Vilma, Minsky, Sara, Bruff, Carmenza, Muneton, Yudy F, McCloud, Rachel F, Puleo, Elaine, Viswanath, Kasisomayajula
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Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Cancer
Capacity Building
Community involvement
Community-Based Participatory Research
Data collection
Data Collection - methods
Female
Health disparities
Health Surveys
Humans
Male
Massachusetts
Participation
Polls & surveys
Public health
Public opinion
Public opinion surveys
Social change
Studies
Teenagers
Tobacco
Womens health
Young Adult
Young adults
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Summary:Community-engaged data collection offers an important opportunity to build community capacity to harness the power of data and create social change. To share lessons learned from engaging 16 adolescents and young adults from a partner community to collect data for a public opinion survey as part of a broader community-based participatory research (CBPR) project. We conducted an analysis of archival documents, process data, and an assessment of survey assistants' experiences. High-quality data were collected from a hard-to-reach population. Survey assistants benefited from exposure to research and gained professional skills. Key challenges included conducting surveys in challenging environments and managing schedule constraints during the school year. The tremendous investment made by project partners was vital for success. Investments required to support engaged data collection were larger than anticipated, as were the rewards, prompting greater attention to the integration of adolescents and young adults in research efforts.
ISSN:1557-0541
1557-055X
1557-055X
DOI:10.1353/cpr.2016.0027