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Overcoming barriers to effective community-based participatory research in US medical schools. Educ Health (Abingdon) 2004 Jul;17(2):141-51

Date

03/15/2005

Pubmed ID

15763757

DOI

10.1080/13576280410001710969

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-4043164181 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   111 Citations

Abstract

Research to improve the health of communities benefits from the involvement of community members. Accordingly, major federal and foundation funding agencies are soliciting health promotion/disease prevention programme proposals that require active community participation. However, creating such partnerships is difficult. Communities often perceive conventional research as paternalistic, irrelevant to their needs, manipulative, secretive and invasive of privacy. Many institutions and researchers view community knowledge as lacking in value. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative partnership approach to research that equitably involves community members, organizational representatives and researchers in all aspects of the research process. In this article the authors consider the barriers to institutional change and faculty participation in CBPR, and propose some steps for overcoming the barriers and making CBPR an integral part of a medical institution's research agenda. Training and supporting faculty in the philosophy and methods of this approach is the cornerstone of improved community-based research.

Author List

Ahmed SM, Beck B, Maurana CA, Newton G

Author

Cheryl A. Maurana PhD Interim Provost, SVP Str Acad Ptnrshp, Dir, Prof in the Institute for Health and Humanity department at Medical College of Wisconsin

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

Community Health Planning
Community Participation
Community-Institutional Relations
Faculty, Medical
Health Promotion
Health Services Research
Humans
Interdisciplinary Communication
Research
Research Support as Topic
Schools, Medical
United States