Community-based participatory research as worldview or instrumental strategy: is it lost in translation(al) research?

CBPR AS WORLDVIEW OR INSTRUMENTAL STRATEGY Over time, CBPR has developed as a coherent worldview, and the concept includes several characteristics outlined both in the Katz et al. article and in the writing of leaders in the CBPR field1-5: 1. the community as the unit of identity, solution, and prac...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2011-08, Vol.101 (8), p.1353-1355
Main Author: Trickett, Edison J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical trials
Community
Community-Based Participatory Research - organization & administration
Core curriculum
Diabetes
Empowerment
Exercise
Humans
Intervention
Participation
Participatory research
Physical fitness
Prevention programs
Product development
Public health
Science
System theory
Translational Medical Research - organization & administration
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Summary:CBPR AS WORLDVIEW OR INSTRUMENTAL STRATEGY Over time, CBPR has developed as a coherent worldview, and the concept includes several characteristics outlined both in the Katz et al. article and in the writing of leaders in the CBPR field1-5: 1. the community as the unit of identity, solution, and practice1-5; 2. community involvement in decision- making throughout the intervention process, from problem definition to planning for sustainability; 3. structural, policy, community capacity, empowerment, and individual change goals; 4. a critical realist or constuctivist philosophy of science1; and 5. a concern that communities are able to sustain what they find useful resulting from the intervention. 6 The use of CBPR as an instrumental strategy differs fundamentally from every aspect of this worldview. [...] they are neither easy to identify nor isolate as independent contributors to outcomes.7 The DPP, for example, ''was not designed to test the relative contributions of dietary changes, increased physical activity, and weight loss to the reduction of risk in diabetes.''
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300124