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Bridging research and practice: community-researcher partnerships for replicating effective interventions. AIDS Educ Prev 2000;12(5 Suppl):49-61

Date

11/04/2000

Pubmed ID

11063069

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-0033792869 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   34 Citations

Abstract

Long-term collaborations among researchers, staff and volunteers in community-based agencies, staff in institutional settings, and health advocates present challenges. Each group has different missions, procedures, attributes, and rewards. This article reviews areas of potential conflict and suggests strategies for coping with these challenges. During the replication of five effective HIV prevention interventions, strategies for maintaining mutually beneficial collaborations included selecting agencies with infrastructures that could support research-based interventions; obtaining letters of understanding that clarified roles, responsibilities, and time frames; and setting training schedules with opportunities for observing, practicing, becoming invested in, and repeatedly implementing the intervention. The process of implementing interventions highlighted educating funders of research and public health services about (a) the costs of disseminating interventions, (b) the need for innovation to new modalities and theories for delivering effective interventions, and (c) adopting strategies of marketing research and quality engineering when designing interventions.

Author List

Rotheram-Borus MJ, Rebchook GM, Kelly JA, Adams J, Neumann MS

Author

Jeffrey A. Kelly PhD Professor in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Community Health Services
Cooperative Behavior
Culture
HIV Infections
Health Education
Humans
Preventive Health Services
Program Development
Research
Technology Transfer
United States