Engage for Equity: Development of Community-Based Participatory Research Tools

We developed a set of four community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership tools aimed at supporting community–academic research partnerships in strengthening their research processes, with the ultimate goal of improving research outcomes. The aim of this article is to describe the tools w...

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Published in:Health education & behavior 2020-06, Vol.47 (3), p.359-371
Main Authors: Parker, Myra, Wallerstein, Nina, Duran, Bonnie, Magarati, Maya, Burgess, Ellen, Sanchez-Youngman, Shannon, Boursaw, Blake, Heffernan, Amanda, Garoutte, Justin, Koegel, Paul
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access
Capacity Building
Community based action research
Community Involvement
Community participation
Community Relations
Community research
Community-Based Participatory Research
Community-Institutional Relations
Exercise
Grants
Health status
Humans
Online Surveys
Participatory Research
Partnerships
Partnerships in Education
Polls & surveys
Praxis
Research partnerships
Research Tools
Rivers
Social Justice
Surveys and Questionnaires
Teams
Workshops
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Summary:We developed a set of four community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership tools aimed at supporting community–academic research partnerships in strengthening their research processes, with the ultimate goal of improving research outcomes. The aim of this article is to describe the tools we developed to accomplish this goal: (1) the River of Life Exercise; (2) a Partnership Visioning Exercise; (3) a personalized Partnership Data Report of data from academic and community research partners; and (4) a Promising Practices Guide with aggregated survey data analyses on promising CBPR practices associated with CBPR and health outcomes from two national samples of CBPR projects that completed a series of two online surveys. Relying on Paulo Freire’s philosophy of praxis, or the cycles of collective reflection and action, we developed a set of tools designed to support research teams in holding discussions aimed at strengthening research partnership capacity, aligning research partnership efforts to achieve grant aims, and recalling and operationalizing larger social justice goals. This article describes the theoretical framework and process for tool development and provides preliminary data from small teams representing 25 partnerships who attended face-to-face workshops and provided their perceptions of tool accessibility and intended future use.
ISSN:1090-1981
1552-6127
DOI:10.1177/1090198120921188