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Rink E, Stotz SA, Johnson-Jennings M, Huyser K, Collins K, Manson SM, Berkowitz SA, Hebert L, Byker Shanks C, Begay K, Hicks T, Dennison M, Jiang L, Firemoon P, Johnson O, Anastario M, Ricker A, GrowingThunder R, Baldwin J. "We don't separate out these things. Everything is related": Partnerships with Indigenous Communities to Design, Implement, and Evaluate Multilevel Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities. PREVENTION SCIENCE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH 2024; 25:474-485. [PMID: 38598040 PMCID: PMC11239303 DOI: 10.1007/s11121-024-01668-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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Multilevel interventions (MLIs) are appropriate to reduce health disparities among Indigenous peoples because of their ability to address these communities' diverse histories, dynamics, cultures, politics, and environments. Intervention science has highlighted the importance of context-sensitive MLIs in Indigenous communities that can prioritize Indigenous and local knowledge systems and emphasize the collective versus the individual. This paradigm shift away from individual-level focus interventions to community-level focus interventions underscores the need for community engagement and diverse partnerships in MLI design, implementation, and evaluation. In this paper, we discuss three case studies addressing how Indigenous partners collaborated with researchers in each stage of the design, implementation, and evaluation of MLIs to reduce health disparities impacting their communities. We highlight the following: (1) collaborations with multiple, diverse tribal partners to carry out MLIs which require iterative, consistent conversations over time; (2) inclusion of qualitative and Indigenous research methods in MLIs as a way to honor Indigenous and local knowledge systems as well as a way to understand a health disparity phenomenon in a community; and (3) relationship building, maintenance, and mutual respect among MLI partners to reconcile past research abuses, prevent extractive research practices, decolonize research processes, and generate co-created knowledge between Indigenous and academic communities.
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- Elizabeth Rink
- Department of Health and Human Development, Montana State University, 312 Herrick Hall, Bozeman, MT, 59715, USA.
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- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Colorado State University, 502 West Lake Street, Fort Collins, CO, 80526, USA
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- Division of Indigenous Environmental Health and Land-Based Healing, Indigenous Wellness Research Institute, University of Washington, Gergerding Hall GBO, Box 351202, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Sociology, Research, and Development/CIEDAR Center, COVID-19 Indigenous Engagement, University of British Columbia, 310-6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- CIEDAR co-Lead. Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, 9 Campus Drive, 154 Arts, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A5, Canada
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- Colorado School of Public Health, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 13055 East 17th Avenue, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC; Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 725 M.L.K. Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516, USA
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- Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH), Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University, 1100 Olive Way #1200, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, 14301 FNB Pkwy #100, Omaha, NE, 68154, USA
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- Maven Collective Consulting, LLC, 15712 N Pennsylvania Avenue Cube 5, Edmond, OK, 73013, USA
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- Teresa Hicks Consulting, 1107 East Babcock Street, Bozeman, MT, 59715, USA
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- Oklahoma City Indian Clinic, 4913 W Reno Ave, 856 Health Sciences Quad, Suite 3400, Oklahoma City, OK, 73127, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; UCI Health Sciences Complex, University of California Irvine, Program in Public Health, 856 Health Sciences Quad, Suite 3400, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA
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- Fort Peck Community College, 605 Indian Ave.,, Poplar, MT, 59255, USA
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- Fort Peck Community College, 605 Indian Ave.,, Poplar, MT, 59255, USA
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- Center for Health Equity Research, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 4065, Suite 120, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-4065, USA
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- Fort Peck Tribal Health Department, 501 Medicine Bear Road, Poplar, MT, 59255, USA
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- Fort Peck Tribes Language and Culture Department, 603 Court Ave., Poplar, MT, 59255, USA
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- Center for Health Equity Research, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 4065, Suite 120, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-4065, USA
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Esposito F, Di Napoli I, Ornelas J, Briozzo E, Arcidiacono C. Examining life in detention: A process of survey translation and adaptation through an ecological and collaborative approach. J Prev Interv Community 2022; 50:302-316. [PMID: 35637175 DOI: 10.1080/10852352.2021.1918827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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This paper illustrates the process we engaged in to translate and adapt a survey to examine life in an immigration detention center in Italy from the perspective of the migrants detained therein. The process consisted of: the forward translation of the original measure performed by four independent translators; a blind backward translation to identify misinterpretations or incorrect cross-cultural and contextual adaptations; a synthesis of all translations to obtain a semifinal version; the creation of an Expert Committee composed of scholars, practitioners, and migrants with experience of detention to assess equivalence and content validity; and, finally, pretesting with a group of 15 detained persons. Through this multi-step process we obtained a measure capable of grasping the context-specific meanings, needs and experiences that characterize life in detention. The challenges and benefits of a collaborative and ecological approach to measurement translation and adaption are discussed in the final section.
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- Francesca Esposito
- Francesca Esposito, School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster, London, UK.,Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Humanities, University of Studies of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- APPsyCI Applied Psychology Research Center Capabilities and Inclusion, ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal
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- APPsyCI Applied Psychology Research Center Capabilities and Inclusion, ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Humanities, University of Studies of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy
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Utilizing Community Engagement Studios to Inform Clinical Trial Design at a Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease. J Clin Transl Sci 2022; 6:e73. [PMID: 35836788 PMCID: PMC9257777 DOI: 10.1017/cts.2022.388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2021] [Revised: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Despite the disproportionate burden of Alzheimer’s disease in older adults of color, the scientific community continues to grapple with underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in clinical research. Our Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease (CEAD) collaborated with a local community partner to conduct community engagement (CE) studios to effectively involve our community of diverse older adults in the early planning stages of a clinical trial. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person studio format was adapted to allow for virtual, real-time participation. Our objective is to describe the process and feasibility of conducting virtual CE studios in an older adult population. Ninety percent of participants were non-Hispanic Black community-dwelling woman aged 60 years and older. The overall background and proposed clinical trial design was presented to the participants who then made recommendations regarding potential recruitment strategies, the use of culturally relevant language to describe the study, and logistical recommendations to improve participation and retention among community members. Our CEAD successfully conducted virtual CE studios during the COVID-19 pandemic, by partnering with a community-based organization, to engage community stakeholders about clinical trial design. CEADs are in a unique position to implement CE studios to better support patient access to clinical trials.
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Montiel C, Radziszewski S, Prilleltensky I, Houle J. Fostering Positive Communities: A Scoping Review of Community-Level Positive Psychology Interventions. Front Psychol 2021; 12:720793. [PMID: 34616336 PMCID: PMC8488140 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2021] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Historically, positive psychology research and practice have focused on studying and promoting well-being among individuals. While positive psychology interventions focusing on the well-being of communities and marginalized groups have recently been developed, studies reporting on their nature and characteristics are lacking. The aim of this paper is to examine the nature of community-level positive psychology interventions. It reviews the target populations, intervention modalities, objectives, and desired effects of 25 community-level positive psychology interventions found in 31 studies. This scoping review shows that community-level programs based on positive psychology vary greatly in all these aspects. However, most interventions are aimed at individual-level changes to achieve target group outcomes. Contextual issues such as social conditions, values, and fairness affecting well-being are rarely considered. Discrepancies between community-level positive psychology interventions and community psychology in terms of values and social change are discussed.
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- Corentin Montiel
- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- School of Education and Human Development, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Chandanabhumma PP, Duran BM, Peterson JC, Pearson CR, Oetzel JG, Dutta MJ, Wallerstein NB. Space within the Scientific Discourse for the Voice of the Other? Expressions of Community Voice in the Scientific Discourse of Community-Based Participatory Research. HEALTH COMMUNICATION 2020; 35:616-627. [PMID: 30786730 DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2019.1581409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has captured public health attention and support because it is positioned as an approach that involves researchers and communities as equitable partners in addressing health disparities. However, it is unknown the extent to which CBPR creates a participatory space in the scientific discourse to signal "community voice," which we define as textual expression of community-centered perspectives on collective roles, interests, and worldviews. In this study, we utilized the culture-centered approach to examine the expression of community voice in the abstracts and public health relevance statements of 253 extramural CBPR projects in the U.S. that received funding from the National Institute of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2009. We found that project abstracts and public health relevance statements contain four textual domains, or potential sites of contest to signal the articulation of community agency and voice within the CBPR projects. These domains include: 1) the rationale for the community health issue, 2) the roles of community partners, 3) community-centered outcomes of the partnership, and 4) elements of participatory research process. The degree of culture-centeredness of the texts is suggested in the extent to which articulations of community agency and voice are signaled across the four domains. We conclude that the dynamics of CBPR may shape culture-centered expressions of problem identification, solution configuration, structural transformations, reflexivity, values, and agency in the project abstracts and public health relevance statements.
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- Indigenous Wellness Research Institute National Center of Excellence, University of Washington
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- Indigenous Wellness Research Institute National Center of Excellence, University of Washington
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- Department of Management Communication, University of Waikato
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- School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University
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- Center for Participatory Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico
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Dill LJ, Ozer EJ. "The hook-up": How youth-serving organizations facilitate network-based social capital for urban youth of color. JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2019; 47:1614-1628. [PMID: 31233622 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2018] [Revised: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 05/24/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Young people of color residing in distressed urban contexts face challenges in accessing social capital that supports positive development and the transition to educational and employment opportunities. Youth-serving organizations play potentially important roles for youth participants to access and leverage networks. This ethnographic study draws on qualitative interviews, conducted with adolescents at a youth-serving organization based in East Oakland, California, to examine how network-based social capital is activated and sustained for and by urban Black and Latinx youth. We found that relationships with supportive adult staff at the organization put youth in contact with caring, trusted adults of color outside of their families who serve as role models for them. These adults provide loving accountability to young people, serving as critical forces in distressed and stigmatized communities. We also found that adult staff activate social leverage to garner various current and future educational and professional opportunities for the youth there. These unique opportunities serve to boost young people's current self-esteem and also to prime them to envision positive futures for themselves. Overall, these findings point to the importance of interpersonal pathways embedded within neighborhood institutions in the activation of network-based social capital.
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- LeConté J Dill
- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York University, College of Global Public Health, New York, New York
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- Division of Community Health Sciences, University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, California
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Rasmus SM, Charles B, John S, Allen J. With a Spirit that Understands: Reflections on a Long-term Community Science Initiative to End Suicide in Alaska. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2019; 64:34-45. [PMID: 31343758 PMCID: PMC6750997 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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This retrospective analysis of a long-term community-based participatory research (CBPR) process spans over two decades of work with Alaska Native communities. A call to action from Alaska Native leadership to create more effective strategies to prevent and treat youth suicide and alcohol misuse risk initiated a response from university researchers. This CBPR process transformed into a collaborative effort to indigenously drive and develop solutions through research. The People Awakening project started our team on this translational and transformational pathway through community intervention science in the Central Yup'ik region of Alaska. We examine more deeply the major episodes and their successes and struggles in maintaining a long-term research relationship between university researchers and members of Yup'ik Alaska Native communities. We explore ways that our CBPR relationship has involved negotiation and engagement with power and praxis, to deepen and focus attention to knowledge systems and relational elements. This paper examines these deeper, transformative elements of our CBPR relationship that spans histories, cultures, and systems. Our discussion shares vignettes from academic and community perspectives to describe process in a unique collaboration, reaching to sometimes touch upon rare ground in emotions, tensions, and triumphs over the course of a dozen grants and twice as many years. We conclude by noting how there are points where, in a long-term CBPR relationship, transition out of emergence into coalescing and transformation can occur.
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- Stacy M. Rasmus
- Center for Alaska Native Health Research, Institute for Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 205 Arctic Health Research Building, 2141 Koyukuk Drive, PO Box 757000, 99775-7000
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- Center for Alaska Native Health Research, Institute for Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 205 Arctic Health Research Building, 2141 Koyukuk Drive, PO Box 757000, 99775-7000
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- Center for Alaska Native Health Research, Institute for Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 205 Arctic Health Research Building, 2141 Koyukuk Drive, PO Box 757000, 99775-7000
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- Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health & Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team - American Indian and Rural Health Equity, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, 624 E. 1st St., Suite 201, Duluth, MN 55805
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Dickson-Gomez J, Tarima S, Glasman LR, Lechuga J, Bodnar G, de Mendoza LR. Intervention Reach and Sexual Risk Reduction of a Multi-level, Community-Based HIV Prevention Intervention for Crack Users in San Salvador, El Salvador. AIDS Behav 2019; 23:1147-1157. [PMID: 30341555 DOI: 10.1007/s10461-018-2314-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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This article examines the effects of a multi-level, community-based HIV prevention intervention for crack users residing in low-income neighborhoods in San Salvador, El Salvador conducted between August 2011 and June 2016. The intervention consisted of three components introduced sequentially: (1) rapid HIV testing in community settings; (2) a social network HIV testing intervention; and (3) small group interventions with crack users who were members of the same social network. The intervention was evaluated with an interrupted time series design in which we used respondent-driven sampling to conduct 7 cross-sectional surveys with crack users along a 3-4 month period for each assessment (total n = 1597). Results revealed a significant increase in exposure to the intervention over time with 50% of the participants reporting exposure to one or more of the three components. Getting an HIV test at the community site was associated with reductions in total times each individual had sex without a condom (p < 0.05) compared to those who had been exposed to no intervention components. Being referred by another crack user through the Social Network HIV intervention was also associated with reductions in total numbers of condomless sex (p < 0.05) The cumulative effect of being exposed to more than one intervention component was associated with reductions in total number of times individuals had condomless sex (p < 0.05). In spite of the high level of intervention reach and that self-reported exposure to intervention components was associated with lower sexual risk, reductions in sexual risk over time were not observed in the full sample, indicating that the penetration of HIV prevention components was not sufficient to produce population level change.
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- Julia Dickson-Gomez
- Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
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- Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, College of Education, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
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- Fundación Antidrogas de El Salvador, Santa Tecla, El Salvador
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Trickett EJ. Ecology, Wicked Problems, and the Context of Community Interventions. HEALTH EDUCATION & BEHAVIOR 2019; 46:204-212. [DOI: 10.1177/1090198119828795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The concept of ecology has, over time, become increasingly important as a frame for conducting community interventions. While multiple ecological frameworks have been proposed both within and outside public health, most have drawn on Bronfenbrenner’s work and the concern with multiple levels of the ecological context. The present article presents an ecological metaphor for community intervention developed in community psychology over the past 50 years. This perspective was specifically developed to conduct community research and intervention in the spirit of community development. The article begins with a brief discussion of social problems as “wicked problems” defying preordained and prescribed solutions. It then organizes the presentation of the ecological metaphor around five Cs that, together, provide an overview of the main points of the perspective: contextualist philosophy of science, community as a multilevel concept, culture and diversity as critical community-defining concepts, collaboration as a fundamental part of the ecology of intervention, and commitment (to community over time). Each of these five Cs adds to an appreciation of the differing aspects of the community intervention process as an ecological enterprise. Embedded in the five Cs are four ecological processes drawn from field biology that are metaphorically useful in providing a cognitive map for understanding community and assessing community impact: interdependence, cycling of resources, adaptation, and succession. Together, this ecological perspective both reflects and differs from extant perspectives in public health and, as such, is intended to contribute to furthering ecological thinking and acting more generally in community interventions.
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Adams DR. Social Work's Role in Collaborative Community-Academic Partnerships: How Our Past Informs Our Future. SOCIAL WORK 2019; 64:19-28. [PMID: 30364997 DOI: 10.1093/sw/swy046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Accepted: 06/22/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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In recent years, community-academic partnerships (CAPs) have gained traction in academia as a method for bridging the research-to-practice gap and reducing health disparities for marginalized populations. The field of social work may be well poised to enhance its ability to engage in partnerships and research around partnerships given its emphasis on conducting practice research and its historical roots in boundary spanning. In this article, the author begins by defining collaborative partnerships between academics and community stakeholders and then states specific advantages and challenges to collaborative partnerships in the field of social work. Throughout, the author explains how the historical foundations of the field (for example, acting as boundary spanners, advocating for marginalized individuals) place social workers in an ideal position to become leaders in the development, sustainment, and strengthening of CAPs. The author details the ways in which social work researchers can use the field's unique history to enhance the development and sustainment of CAPs. The article concludes by encouraging the field to use standardized terminology, methodology, and evaluation procedures when conducting CAPs and providing strategies for social work researchers who wish to increase their ability to develop and sustain CAPs within their own institutions.
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- Danielle R Adams
- Danielle R. Adams, AM, BA, is a PhD student, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, 969 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL; e-mail: . The author thanks Dr. Mark Courtney at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration and Dr. Alicia Bunger at Ohio State University's College of Social Work for preliminary feedback on the manuscript
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Tebes JK. Team Science, Justice, and the Co-Production of Knowledge. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2018; 62:13-22. [PMID: 29882968 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Science increasingly consists of interdisciplinary team-based research to address complex social, biomedical, public health, and global challenges through a practice known as team science. In this article, I discuss the added value of team science, including participatory team science, for generating scientific knowledge. Participatory team science involves the inclusion of public stakeholders on science teams as co-producers of knowledge. I also discuss how constructivism offers a common philosophical foundation for both community psychology and team science, and how this foundation aligns well with contemporary developments in science that emphasize the co-production of knowledge. I conclude with a discussion of how the co-production of knowledge in team science can promote justice.
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- Jacob Kraemer Tebes
- Division of Prevention and Community Research & The Consultation Center, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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Tebes JK, Thai ND. Interdisciplinary team science and the public: Steps toward a participatory team science. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST 2018; 73:549-562. [PMID: 29792467 PMCID: PMC5973546 DOI: 10.1037/amp0000281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Interdisciplinary team science involves research collaboration among investigators from different disciplines who work interdependently to share leadership and responsibility. Although over the past several decades there has been an increase in knowledge produced by science teams, the public has not been meaningfully engaged in this process. We argue that contemporary changes in how science is understood and practiced offer an opportunity to reconsider engaging the public as active participants on teams and coin the term participatory team science to describe public engagement in team science. We discuss how public engagement can enhance knowledge within the team to address complex problems and suggest a different organizing framework for team science that aligns better with how teams operate and with participatory approaches to research. We also summarize work on public engagement in science, describe opportunities for various types of engagement, and provide an example of participatory team science carried out across research phases. We conclude by discussing implications of participatory team science for psychology, including changing the default when assembling an interdisciplinary science team by identifying meaningful roles for public engagement through participatory team science. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Jacob Kraemer Tebes
- Department of Psychiatry, Division of Prevention and Community Research & The Consultation Center, Yale University School of Medicine
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- Department of Psychological Science, Central Connecticut State University
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Chouinard JA, Milley P. Uncovering the mysteries of inclusion: Empirical and methodological possibilities in participatory evaluation in an international context. EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING 2018; 67:70-78. [PMID: 29245110 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Revised: 11/24/2017] [Accepted: 12/05/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The inclusion of stakeholders in participatory evaluation in highly diverse, culturally complex settings remains a challenge, given issues of inequity, power, voice, capacity and skill. These challenges are well documented, but there is a relative absence of papers devoted to addressing them based on examples and evidence. In this paper, we report our review of 51 empirical studies of participatory evaluations conducted in the international domain, focusing on the methods of inclusion used in the evaluations. Our findings address "the who" (which stakeholders are included and which excluded), "the why" (rationales for participation) and "the how" (by what means and in what manner) of inclusion. We were struck by the scale of some development programs, geographically and in terms of the number of diverse program sponsors and stakeholders, and how this necessitated highly creative, innovative participatory techniques to ensure that anyone (and in some cases everyone) could have a voice in the process, regardless of location, language ability, privilege, power, gender, age or culture.
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- Jill Anne Chouinard
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States; University of Ottawa, Canada.
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- University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States; University of Ottawa, Canada
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Hartmann WE, St Arnault DM, Gone JP. A Return to "The Clinic" for Community Psychology: Lessons from a Clinical Ethnography in Urban American Indian Behavioral Health. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2018; 61:62-75. [PMID: 29266300 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Community psychology (CP) abandoned the clinic and disengaged from movements for community mental health (CMH) to escape clinical convention and pursue growing aspirations as an independent field of context-oriented, community-engaged, and values-driven research and action. In doing so, however, CP positioned itself on the sidelines of influential contemporary movements that promote potentially harmful, reductionist biomedical narratives in mental health. We advocate for a return to the clinic-the seat of institutional power in mental health-using critical clinic-based inquiry to open sites for clinical-community dialogue that can instigate transformative change locally and nationally. To inform such works within the collaborative and emancipatory traditions of CP, we detail a recently completed clinical ethnography and offer "lessons learned" regarding challenges likely to re-emerge in similar efforts. Conducted with an urban American Indian community behavioral health clinic, this ethnography examined how culture and culture concepts (e.g., cultural competence) shaped clinical practice with socio-political implications for American Indian peoples and the pursuit of transformative change in CMH. Lessons learned identify exceptional clinicians versed in ecological thinking and contextualist discourses of human suffering as ideal partners for this work; encourage intense contextualization and constraining critique to areas of mutual interest; and support relational approaches to clinic collaborations.
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- William E Hartmann
- School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Lucero J, Wallerstein N, Duran B, Alegria M, Greene-Moton E, Israel B, Kastelic S, Magarati M, Oetzel J, Pearson C, Schulz A, Villegas M, White Hat ER. Development of a Mixed Methods Investigation of Process and Outcomes of Community-Based Participatory Research. JOURNAL OF MIXED METHODS RESEARCH 2018; 12:55-74. [PMID: 29230152 PMCID: PMC5722275 DOI: 10.1177/1558689816633309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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This article describes a mixed methods study of community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership practices and the links between these practices and changes in health status and disparities outcomes. Directed by a CBPR conceptual model and grounded in indigenous-transformative theory, our nation-wide, cross-site study showcases the value of a mixed methods approach for better understanding the complexity of CBPR partnerships across diverse community and research contexts. The article then provides examples of how an iterative, integrated approach to our mixed methods analysis yielded enriched understandings of two key constructs of the model: trust and governance. Implications and lessons learned while using mixed methods to study CBPR are provided.
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- National Indian Child Welfare Association, Portland, OR, USA
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- University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center, Washington, DC, USA
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Haarlammert M, Birman D, Oberoi A, Moore WJ. Inside-Out: Representational Ethics and Diverse Communities. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2017; 60:414-423. [PMID: 29027672 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The purpose of this paper is to write about insights and special considerations for researchers who are, to some degree, "insiders" to the communities they study by expanding on the concept of representational ethics as applied to research in community psychology with diverse and marginalized groups. Representational ethics refers to the ways that researchers, artists, or corporations represent the identities of the people they portray in their communications. As community psychologists we generate and disseminate knowledge about the communities we work with, and in that process, create narratives about the people who participate in our studies. In preparing a report on psychological issues among Evangelical Christian refugees from the former Soviet Union, Dina Birman struggled with her portrayal of this group and her own status of being both an insider and an outsider to this community. When investigating academic aspirations and psychological distress among Muslim high school students, Ashmeet Oberoi was forced to acknowledge the one-sidedness of the discourse on autonomy and cultural socialization of Muslim adolescents. In her research with Cuban-educated doctors in Miami, Florida, Wendy Moore encountered similar issues as she considered how to represent gender dynamics among her participants.
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- University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
- Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russia
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Koen J, Wassenaar D, Mamotte N. The 'over-researched community': An ethics analysis of stakeholder views at two South African HIV prevention research sites. Soc Sci Med 2017; 194:1-9. [PMID: 29035778 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2017] [Revised: 10/05/2017] [Accepted: 10/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Health research in resource-limited, multi-cultural contexts raises complex ethical concerns. The term 'over-researched community' (ORC) has been raised as an ethical concern and potential barrier to community participation in research. However, the term lacks conceptual clarity and is absent from established ethics guidelines and academic literature. In light of the concern being raised in relation to research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a critical and empirical exploration of the meaning of ORC was undertaken. Guided by Emanuel et al.'s (2004) eight principles for ethically sound research in LMICs, this study examines the relevance and meaning of the terms 'over-research' and 'over-researched community' through an analysis of key stakeholder perspectives at two South African research sites. Data were collected between August 2007 and October 2008. 'Over-research' was found to represent a conglomeration of ethical concerns often used as a proxy for standard research ethics concepts. 'Over-research' seemed fundamentally linked to disparate positions and perspectives between different stakeholders in the research interaction, arising from challenges in inter-stakeholder relationships. 'Over-research' might be interpreted to mean exploitation. However, exploitation itself could mean different things. Using the term may lead to obscured understanding of real or perceived ethical concerns, making it difficult to identify and address the underlying concerns. It is recommended that the term be carefully and critically interrogated for clarity when used in research ethics discourse. Because it represents other legitimate concerns, it should not be dismissed without careful exploration.
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- Jennifer Koen
- HIV AIDS Vaccines Ethics Group, Discipline of Psychology, School of Applied Human Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01 Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, 3209, South Africa.
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- South African Research Ethics Training Initiative, School of Applied Human Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01 Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, 3209 South Africa.
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- South African Research Ethics Training Initiative, School of Applied Human Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01 Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, 3209 South Africa.
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Bhawuk DPS. Developing theories and models to serve: A manifesto for indigenous psychologists. ASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/ajsp.12178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Dharm P. S. Bhawuk
- Management and Culture and Community Psychology; University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu Hawaii USA
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Hansen S, Kanning M, Lauer R, Steinacker JM, Schlicht W. MAP-IT: A Practical Tool for Planning Complex Behavior Modification Interventions. Health Promot Pract 2017; 18:696-705. [PMID: 28557551 PMCID: PMC5562343 DOI: 10.1177/1524839917710454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Health research often aims to prevent noncommunicable diseases and to improve individual and public health by discovering intervention strategies that are effective in changing behavior and/or environments that are detrimental to one’s health. Ideally, findings from original research support practitioners in planning and implementing effective interventions. Unfortunately, interventions often fail to overcome the translational block between science and practice. They often ignore theoretical knowledge, overlook empirical evidence, and underrate the impact of the environment. Accordingly, sustainable changes in individual behavior and/or the environment are difficult to achieve. Developing theory-driven and evidence-based interventions in the real world is a complex task. Existing implementation frameworks and theories often do not meet the needs of health practitioners. The purpose of this article is to synthesize existing frameworks and to provide a tool, the Matrix Assisting Practitioner’s Intervention Planning Tool (MAP-IT), that links research to practice and helps practitioners to design multicomponent interventions. In this article, we use physical activity of older adults as an example to explain the rationale of MAP-IT. In MAP-IT, individual as well as environmental mechanisms are listed and behavior change techniques are linked to these mechanisms and to intervention components. MAP-IT is theory-driven and evidence-based. It is time-saving and helpful for practitioners when planning complex interventions.
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- 2 University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany
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Kahlert D, Unyi-Reicherz A, Stratton G, Meinert Larsen T, Fogelholm M, Raben A, Schlicht W. PREVIEW Behavior Modification Intervention Toolbox (PREMIT): A Study Protocol for a Psychological Element of a Multicenter Project. Front Psychol 2016; 7:1136. [PMID: 27559319 PMCID: PMC4978707 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2015] [Accepted: 07/15/2016] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Losing excess body weight and preventing weight regain by changing lifestyle is a challenging but promising task to prevent the incidence of type-2 diabetes. To be successful, it is necessary to use evidence-based and theory-driven interventions, which also contribute to the science of behavior modification by providing a deeper understanding of successful intervention components. OBJECTIVE To develop a physical activity and dietary behavior modification intervention toolbox (PREMIT) that fulfills current requirements of being theory-driven and evidence-based, comprehensively described and feasible to evaluate. PREMIT is part of an intervention trial, which aims to prevent the onset of type-2 diabetes in pre-diabetics in eight clinical centers across the world by guiding them in changing their physical activity and dietary behavior through a group counseling approach. METHODS The program development took five progressive steps, in line with the Public Health Action Cycle: (1) Summing-up the intervention goal(s), target group and the setting, (2) uncovering the generative psychological mechanisms, (3) identifying behavior change techniques and tools, (4) preparing for evaluation and (5) implementing the intervention and assuring quality. RESULTS PREMIT is based on a trans-theoretical approach referring to valid behavior modification theories, models and approaches. A major "product" of PREMIT is a matrix, constructed for use by onsite-instructors. The matrix includes objectives, tasks and activities ordered by periods. PREMIT is constructed to help instructors guide participants' behavior change. To ensure high fidelity and adherence of program-implementation across the eight intervention centers standardized operational procedures were defined and "train-the-trainer" workshops were held. In summary PREMIT is a theory-driven, evidence-based program carefully developed to change physical activity and dietary behaviors in pre-diabetic people.
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- Daniela Kahlert
- Division Exercise and Sports, University of Education Schwäbisch GmündSchwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
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- Chair Exercise and Health Science, Stuttgart Research Initiative Human Factors in Ageing, Technology, and Environment, University of StuttgartStuttgart, Germany
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- Applied Sport, Technology, Exercise and Medicine Research Centre, Swansea UniversitySwansea, UK
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- Department of Nutrition, Exercise, and Sports, University of CopenhagenCopenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Food and Environmental Science, University of HelsinkiHelsinki, Finland
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- Department of Nutrition, Exercise, and Sports, University of CopenhagenCopenhagen, Denmark
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- Chair Exercise and Health Science, Stuttgart Research Initiative Human Factors in Ageing, Technology, and Environment, University of StuttgartStuttgart, Germany
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Nelson G, Macnaughton E, Curwood SE, Egalité N, Voronka J, Fleury MJ, Kirst M, Flowers L, Patterson M, Dudley M, Piat M, Goering P. Collaboration and involvement of persons with lived experience in planning Canada's At Home/Chez Soi project. HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY 2016; 24:184-193. [PMID: 25689287 DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/25/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Planning the implementation of evidence-based mental health services entails commitment to both rigour and community relevance, which entails navigating the challenges of collaboration between professionals and community members in a planning environment which is neither 'top-down' nor 'bottom-up'. This research focused on collaboration among different stakeholders (e.g. researchers, service-providers, persons with lived experience [PWLE]) at five project sites across Canada in the planning of At Home/Chez Soi, a Housing First initiative for homeless people with mental health problems. The research addressed the question of what strategies worked well or less well in achieving successful collaboration, given the opportunities and challenges within this complex 'hybrid' planning environment. Using qualitative methods, 131 local stakeholders participated in key informant or focus group interviews between October 2009 and February 2010. Site researchers identified themes in the data, using the constant comparative method. Strategies that enhanced collaboration included the development of a common vision, values and purpose around the Housing First approach, developing a sense of belonging and commitment among stakeholders, bridging strategies employed by Site Co-ordinators and multiple strategies to engage PWLE. At the same time, a tight timeline, initial tensions, questions and resistance regarding project and research parameters, and lack of experience in engaging PWLE challenged collaboration. In a hybrid planning environment, clear communication and specific strategies are required that flow from an understanding that the process is neither fully participatory nor expert-driven, but rather a hybrid of both.
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- Geoffrey Nelson
- Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- The OMICS-ETHICS Research Group, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Justice Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Research and Development in Education, Université de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
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- Centre for Applied Research in Addictions and Mental Health, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Douglas Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Drahota A, Meza RD, Brikho B, Naaf M, Estabillo JA, Gomez ED, Vejnoska SF, Dufek S, Stahmer AC, Aarons GA. Community-Academic Partnerships: A Systematic Review of the State of the Literature and Recommendations for Future Research. Milbank Q 2016; 94:163-214. [PMID: 26994713 PMCID: PMC4941973 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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POLICY POINTS Communities, funding agencies, and institutions are increasingly involving community stakeholders as partners in research, to provide firsthand knowledge and insight. Based on our systematic review of major literature databases, we recommend using a single term, community-academic partnership (CAP), and a conceptual definition to unite multiple research disciplines and strengthen the field. Interpersonal and operational factors that facilitate or hinder the collaborative process have been consistently identified, including "trust among partners" and "respect among partners" (facilitating interpersonal factors) and "excessive time commitment" (hindering operational factor). Once CAP processes and characteristics are better understood, the effectiveness of collaborative partner involvement can be tested. CONTEXT Communities, funding agencies, and institutions are increasingly involving community stakeholders as partners in research. Community stakeholders can provide firsthand knowledge and insight, thereby increasing research relevance and feasibility. Despite the greater emphasis and use of community-academic partnerships (CAP) across multiple disciplines, definitions of partnerships and methodologies vary greatly, and no systematic reviews consolidating this literature have been published. The purpose of this article, then, is to facilitate the continued growth of this field by examining the characteristics of CAPs and the current state of the science, identifying the facilitating and hindering influences on the collaborative process, and developing a common term and conceptual definition for use across disciplines. METHODS Our systematic search of 6 major literature databases generated 1,332 unique articles, 50 of which met our criteria for inclusion and provided data on 54 unique CAPs. We then analyzed studies to describe CAP characteristics and to identify the terms and methods used, as well as the common influences on the CAP process and distal outcomes. FINDINGS CAP research spans disciplines, involves a variety of community stakeholders, and focuses on a large range of study topics. CAP research articles, however, rarely report characteristics such as membership numbers or duration. Most studies involved case studies using qualitative methods to collect data on the collaborative process. Although various terms were used to describe collaborative partnerships, few studies provided conceptual definitions. Twenty-three facilitating and hindering factors influencing the CAP collaboration process emerged from the literature. Outcomes from the CAPs most often included developing or refining tangible products. CONCLUSIONS Based on our systematic review, we recommend using a single term, community-academic partnership, as well as a conceptual definition to unite multiple research disciplines. In addition, CAP characteristics and methods should be reported more systematically to advance the field (eg, to develop CAP evaluation tools). We have identified the most common influences that facilitate and hinder CAPs, which in turn should guide their development and sustainment.
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- Amy Drahota
- San Diego State University
- Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
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- Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
- University of Washington, Seattle
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- San Diego State University
- Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
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- San Diego State University
- Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
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- Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
- University of California, San Diego
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- Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
- University of California, Davis, MIND Institute
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- Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
- University of California, San Diego
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Chouinard JA, Milley P. Mapping the spatial dimensions of participatory practice: A discussion of context in evaluation. EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING 2016; 54:1-10. [PMID: 26476858 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2015.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2015] [Revised: 09/16/2015] [Accepted: 09/16/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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In participatory or collaborative evaluation practice, context is considered a complex, relational and social phenomenon that frames the parameters of the inquiry process in profound ways. To help us expand upon our understanding of context, we borrow the concept of "space" from the critical geographers, as it provides a bridge between the social and geographic complexities of context, enabling us to more fully capture the social and relational dynamic that fundamentally defines participatory evaluation. Our focus is on understanding context and relationships as two interconnected, dynamic and constituent parts of evaluation practices that feature participatory spaces. We then turn to a comparative analysis of participatory practice across two published reviews of distinct sets of empirical studies as a way to extend our understanding of participatory evaluation in relation to its practical, and frequently complex, contextual expressions in the field. This comparative analysis enables us to develop a set of five dimensions (epistemic, temporal/historical, cultural, economic/organizational, political) that we believe captures the spatial and contextual characteristics and contours of participatory practice.
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- Jill Anne Chouinard
- Department of Educational Research Methodology, School of Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, United States.
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- Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Budd KS, Garbacz LL, Carter JS. Collaborating with Public School Partners to Implement Teacher–Child Interaction Training (TCIT) as Universal Prevention. SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s12310-015-9158-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Pais SC, Rodrigues M, Menezes I. Community as locus for health formal and non-formal education: the significance of ecological and collaborative research for promoting health literacy. Front Public Health 2014; 2:283. [PMID: 25566525 PMCID: PMC4273634 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2014] [Accepted: 12/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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The World Health Organization (2002) considers that a balance between government, community, and individual action is necessary for health education and promotion, recognizing that non-governmental organizations, local groups, and community institutions are central in this process. This argument reinforces the idea that individuals should be empowered and encouraged to make use of accurate health-related information. This paper highlights the potential of a socio-political perspective for the development of health literacy within children and adolescents and presents two studies conducted in two daily life contexts: a community organization and a school. Both studies are based on methodological pluralism and collaborative research approaches and explore the promotion of health knowledge in formal and informal settings. Study 1 is based on a mixed methodology, using focus group discussions and questionnaires with children and youth with chronic diseases to explore the perceived impact of their participation in support associations. Study 2 presents four intensive case-studies in schools where adolescents used community profiling, a participatory research methodology, to explore health rights and access to healthcare in both a historical and prospective vision. The results enable a deeper understanding on how powerful tool ccommunity resources can be for individual and collective empowerment on health issues.
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- Sofia C Pais
- Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra , Coimbra , Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas, Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto , Porto , Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas, Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto , Porto , Portugal
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Allen J, Mohatt GV. Introduction to ecological description of a community intervention: building prevention through collaborative field based research. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2014; 54:83-90. [PMID: 24912872 PMCID: PMC4119491 DOI: 10.1007/s10464-014-9644-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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This special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology is the result of a 18-year partnership with Alaska Native communities using collaborative field based research methods. Its goal is to provide a case study fulfilling the spirit of ecological inquiry, offering a detailed and nuanced description of a community intervention. The articles describe the nature of our work, including some of our successes, as well as challenges, dilemmas, and even disappointments we experienced along the way. Our primary aim was to develop and assess the feasibility of a complex, multi-level intervention to increase protective factors hypothesized to reduce suicide and alcohol abuse among rural Yup'ik Alaska Native youth ages 12-18. The articles that follow include descriptions of the cultural context, relevant literature and project history, our methods of community engagement in measurement development strategies, an empirical test of the prevention model that guided the intervention, the development and implementation of the intervention, a feasibility and impact assessment, and an evaluation of community engagement. A final article summarizes what is generalizable from the work in field based intervention research with rural and culturally distinct populations, and future prospects for decolonizing community intervention research methods. These papers raise important issues, including (1) need for deep, contextual ecological descriptions, (2) reconceptualization of time in the research relationship, (3) distinctions between populations and communities, and (4) the conflict between values of communities and intervention science.
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- James Allen
- Department of Biobehavioral Health and Population Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, 231 SMed, 1035 University Drive, Duluth, MN, 55812-3031, USA,
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Boal AL, Mankowski ES. The impact of legislative standards on batterer intervention program practices and characteristics. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2014; 53:218-230. [PMID: 24482286 DOI: 10.1007/s10464-014-9637-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Changes in social policy are often pursued with the goal of reducing a social problem by improving prevention efforts, intervention program practices, or participant outcomes. State legislative standards for intimate partner violence intervention programs have been adopted nearly universally across the US, however, we do not know whether such standards actually achieve the intended goal of affecting programs' policies and practices. To assess the effect that batterer intervention program (BIP) standards have on policies and practices of programs, this study used longitudinal surveys collected as part of an ongoing evaluation conducted from 2001 to the present to compare intervention program (N = 74) characteristics and practices at three time points before and after the adoption of standards in Oregon. Analyses were conducted to examine all BIPs in Oregon at each time point, as well as change among a subset of programs in existence at all survey assessments. Results indicate that across all programs, the use of mixed gender group co-facilitation increased by 14% between 2004 and 2008, while program length increased by approximately 12 weeks. However, other practices such as programs' coordination with community partners were unchanged. Analyses of within-program change revealed fewer differences, with only program length increasing significantly over the three assessments. These and other findings indicate that while standards affected program length as intended, other practices commonly addressed by legislative standards remained unchanged. The findings provide needed information regarding programs' compliance with components of the standards, the potential need for compliance monitoring, and the potential impact of state standards on program effectiveness and on the prevalence of intimate partner violence.
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- Ashley L Boal
- Psychology Department, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 97201, USA,
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Marujo HÁ, Neto LM. Felicitas Publica and community well-being: nourishing relational goods through dialogic conversations between deprived and privileged populations. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY IN AFRICA 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2014.904096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
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Addressing the Complexities of Boundary Work in Sustainability Science through Communication. SUSTAINABILITY 2013. [DOI: 10.3390/su5104195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Chang C, Salvatore AL, Lee PT, Liu SS, Tom AT, Morales A, Baker R, Minkler M. Adapting to context in community-based participatory research: "participatory starting points" in a Chinese immigrant worker community. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2013; 51:480-491. [PMID: 23370942 DOI: 10.1007/s10464-012-9565-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is increasingly being used to better understand and improve the health of diverse communities. A key strength of this research orientation is its adaptability to community contexts and characteristics. To date, however, few studies explicitly discuss adaptations made to CBPR principles and processes in response to community context and partners' needs. Using data from our CBPR study, the San Francisco Chinatown Restaurant Worker Health and Safety Project, and drawing from literature on immigrant political incorporation, we examine the links between the contexts of the Chinese immigrant worker community, adaptations made by our collaborative, and study outcomes. In particular, we explore the concepts of contexts of reception and participatory starting points, which may be especially relevant for partnerships with immigrant communities whose members have historically had lower rates of civic and political participation in the US. We discuss contextual findings such as worker partner accounts of language barriers, economic and social marginalization, and civic skills and participation, as well as subsequent adaptations made by the partnership. We also describe the relative effectiveness of these adaptations in yielding equitable participation and building partners' capacity. We conclude by sharing lessons learned and their implications for CBPR and partnerships with immigrant communities more broadly.
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- Charlotte Chang
- Labor Occupational Health Program, School of Public Health, University of California, 2223 Fulton St, 4th Floor, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Sonn CC, Quayle AF. Developing Praxis: Mobilising Critical Race Theory in Community Cultural Development. JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY & APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/casp.2145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- College of Arts; Victoria University; Melbourne; Australia
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Koen J, Essack Z, Slack C, Lindegger G, Newman PA. 'It looks like you just want them when things get rough': civil society perspectives on negative trial results and stakeholder engagement in HIV prevention trials. Dev World Bioeth 2012; 13:138-48. [PMID: 22998395 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2012.00338.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Civil society organizations (CSOs) have significantly impacted on the politics of health research and the field of bioethics. In the global HIV epidemic, CSOs have served a pivotal stakeholder role. The dire need for development of new prevention technologies has raised critical challenges for the ethical engagement of community stakeholders in HIV research. This study explored the perspectives of CSO representatives involved in HIV prevention trials (HPTs) on the impact of premature trial closures on stakeholder engagement. Fourteen respondents from South African and international CSOs representing activist and advocacy groups, community mobilisation initiatives, and human and legal rights groups were purposively sampled based on involvement in HPTs. Interviews were conducted from February-May 2010. Descriptive analysis was undertaken across interviews and key themes were developed inductively. CSO representatives largely described positive outcomes of recent microbicide and HIV vaccine trial terminations, particularly in South Africa, which they attributed to improvements in stakeholder engagement. Ongoing challenges to community engagement included the need for principled justifications for selective stakeholder engagement at strategic time-points, as well as the need for legitimate alternatives to CABs as mechanisms for engagement. Key issues for CSOs in relation to research were also raised.
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Jagosh J, Macaulay AC, Pluye P, Salsberg J, Bush PL, Henderson J, Sirett E, Wong G, Cargo M, Herbert CP, Seifer SD, Green LW, Greenhalgh T. Uncovering the benefits of participatory research: implications of a realist review for health research and practice. Milbank Q 2012; 90:311-46. [PMID: 22709390 PMCID: PMC3460206 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2012.00665.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 588] [Impact Index Per Article: 49.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Context Participatory research (PR) is the co-construction of research through partnerships between researchers and people affected by and/or responsible for action on the issues under study. Evaluating the benefits of PR is challenging for a number of reasons: the research topics, methods, and study designs are heterogeneous; the extent of collaborative involvement may vary over the duration of a project and from one project to the next; and partnership activities may generate a complex array of both short- and long-term outcomes. Methods Our review team consisted of a collaboration among researchers and decision makers in public health, research funding, ethics review, and community-engaged scholarship. We identified, selected, and appraised a large-variety sample of primary studies describing PR partnerships, and in each stage, two team members independently reviewed and coded the literature. We used key realist review concepts (middle-range theory, demi-regularity, and context-mechanism-outcome configurations [CMO]) to analyze and synthesize the data, using the PR partnership as the main unit of analysis. Findings From 7,167 abstracts and 591 full-text papers, we distilled for synthesis a final sample of twenty-three PR partnerships described in 276 publications. The link between process and outcome in these partnerships was best explained using the middle-range theory of partnership synergy, which demonstrates how PR can (1) ensure culturally and logistically appropriate research, (2) enhance recruitment capacity, (3) generate professional capacity and competence in stakeholder groups, (4) result in productive conflicts followed by useful negotiation, (5) increase the quality of outputs and outcomes over time, (6) increase the sustainability of project goals beyond funded time frames and during gaps in external funding, and (7) create system changes and new unanticipated projects and activities. Negative examples illustrated why these outcomes were not a guaranteed product of PR partnerships but were contingent on key aspects of context. Conclusions We used a realist approach to embrace the heterogeneity and complexity of the PR literature. This theory-driven synthesis identified mechanisms by which PR may add value to the research process. Using the middle-range theory of partnership synergy, our review confirmed findings from previous PR reviews, documented and explained some negative outcomes, and generated new insights into the benefits of PR regarding conflicts and negotiation between stakeholders, program sustainability and advancement, unanticipated project activity, and the generation of systemic change.
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- Justin Jagosh
- Participatory Research at McGill, McGill University.
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Moorcroft H, Ignjic E, Cowell S, Goonack J, Mangolomara S, Oobagooma J, Karadada R, Williams D, Waina N. Conservation planning in a cross-cultural context: the Wunambal Gaambera Healthy Country Project in the Kimberley, Western Australia. ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT & RESTORATION 2012. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-8903.2011.00629.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Butler J, Fryer CS, Reed EA, Thomas SB. Utilizing the school health index to build collaboration between a university and an urban school district. THE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH 2011; 81:774-82. [PMID: 22070509 PMCID: PMC4247884 DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.2011.00657.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND Insufficient attention has been paid to the process of conducting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's School Health Index (SHI) to promote collaboration between universities and urban school districts when developing adolescent health promotion initiatives. This article provides an overview of the real-world contextual challenges and opportunities this type of collaboration can pose. METHODS The SHI and selected collaboration principles were used to facilitate partnership and increase stakeholder buy-in, which led to developing and implementing an 8-year health promotion campaign. RESULTS The focus on planning brought together key stakeholders to allow for health promotion programming to take place, despite the competing demands on the schools. The SHI allowed for input from stakeholders to develop campaign activities and inform school- and district-wide policy. Universities and school districts desiring to develop and implement school-based, adolescent health promotion programs should (1) identify the hierarchical structure of the school district, (2) establish credibility for the program and the university staff, (3) emphasize the benefits to all partners, (4) maintain a cooperative partnership with teachers and administrators, (5) appreciate the need for planning, and (6) provide as many resources as possible to aid an already overburdened school system. CONCLUSIONS Promoting healthy behaviors among students is an important part of the fundamental mission of schools. The significance of collaboration using the SHI, with direct input from students, teachers, administrators, and university partners, is critical in the development of institutional support for implementation of adolescent health promotion initiatives.
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- James Butler
- Assistant Professor, Department of Public & Community Health, Associate Director, University of Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland College Park, 2320 SPH Building #255, College Park, MD 20742-2611, Phone: 301-405-0757, Fax: 301-314-9167,
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Public & Community Health, Associate Director, University of Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland College Park, 2324 SPH Building #255, College Park, MD 20742-2611, Phone: 301-405-0818, Fax: 301-314-9167,
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- Executive Director (retired) of Middle Schools Operations, Board of Public Education, School District of Pittsburgh, 341 South Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3552, Phone: 412-622-3500, Fax: 412-622-3695,
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- Professor, Department of Health Services Administration, Director, University of Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland College Park, 3302E SPH Building #255, College Park, MD 20742-2611, Phone: 301-405-8357, Fax: 301-405-2542,
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Allen J, Mohatt GV, Markstrom CA, Byers L, Novins DK. "Oh No, We are Just Getting to Know You": The Relationship in Research with Children and Youth in Indigenous Communities. CHILD DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES 2011; 6:55-60. [PMID: 22327297 DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2011.00199.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We describe important elements in the process of engagement with tribal communities in research with children and youth and their families. We believe it helpful to understand the research relationship with tribal communities through the lens of kinship relations. This calls for re-examination of the nature of research and researcher, with important implications for the research process, design and organization, recovery from errors, and dissemination of results. Implications include a re-examination of some of our canons of research methods and research ethics, along with a willingness to address new challenges, to share control of the research process, and to be open to new conceptual perspectives, including alternative research strategies. Its repercussions hold promise for a deepening of the research relationship, and the role of researcher in the community.
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- James Allen
- Department of Psychology and Center for Alaska Native Health Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Trickett EJ, Beehler S, Deutsch C, Green LW, Hawe P, McLeroy K, Miller RL, Rapkin BD, Schensul JJ, Schulz AJ, Trimble JE. Advancing the science of community-level interventions. Am J Public Health 2011; 101:1410-9. [PMID: 21680923 PMCID: PMC3134512 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2010.300113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 223] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/17/2010] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Community interventions are complex social processes that need to move beyond single interventions and outcomes at individual levels of short-term change. A scientific paradigm is emerging that supports collaborative, multilevel, culturally situated community interventions aimed at creating sustainable community-level impact. This paradigm is rooted in a deep history of ecological and collaborative thinking across public health, psychology, anthropology, and other fields of social science. The new paradigm makes a number of primary assertions that affect conceptualization of health issues, intervention design, and intervention evaluation. To elaborate the paradigm and advance the science of community intervention, we offer suggestions for promoting a scientific agenda, developing collaborations among professionals and communities, and examining the culture of science.
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Javdani S, Allen NE. Proximal outcomes matter: a multilevel examination of the processes by which coordinating councils produce change. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2011; 47:12-27. [PMID: 21052823 DOI: 10.1007/s10464-010-9375-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Communities are engaged in efforts to create a coordinated response to intimate partner violence. Though coordinating councils are commonly employed vehicles for such efforts, research provides only equivocal support regarding their effectiveness. These mixed findings may reflect methodological and conceptual challenges. Specifically, there is an over-reliance on conceptualizing council effectiveness in terms of distal outcomes (e.g., behavior change), rather than the intermediary processes by which councils affect change. A direct assessment of councils' proximal outcomes may highlight change mechanisms. To that end, this study investigates the extent to which councils impact proximal outcomes and examines the processes through which proximal outcomes are interrelated and linked to distal community change. Study findings suggest that perceived proximal outcomes do significantly predict variability in perceived distal community change across councils. Specifically, promotion of social capital and institutionalized change predict achievement of distal community change, and promotion of social capital also predicts achievement of institutionalized change.
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- Shabnam Javdani
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
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Horsfall J, Cleary M, Hunt GE. Developing partnerships in mental health to bridge the research-practitioner gap. Perspect Psychiatr Care 2011; 47:6-12. [PMID: 21418068 DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2010.00265.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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PURPOSE An overview of approaches used in contemporary mental health research to consider when coordinating research agendas is presented. Connections between the research-practice gap and evidence-based practice are explored. Collaboration, as a key concept and practice, is investigated particularly in relation to community and consumer participation in mental health research. CONCLUSIONS Non-commensurate belief systems, inadequate infrastructure, and institutional tendencies maintain the status quo and constitute significant impediments to widespread planned and integrated research programs. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS Communication and trust building between researchers and practitioners is central to developing effective collaborations that can deliver more effective health care.
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- Jan Horsfall
- Research Unit, Concord Centre for Mental Health, Sydney South West Area Mental Health Service, Concord Hospital, and Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Silka L. Community research in other contexts: learning from sustainability science. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics 2010; 5:3-11. [PMID: 21133782 DOI: 10.1525/jer.2010.5.4.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In health research, community based participatory research (CBPR) has seen remarkable growth as an approach that overcomes many of the ethical concerns raised by traditional approaches. A community of CBPR scholars is now sharing ideas and devising new approaches to collaborative research. Yet, this is occurring in isolation from similar efforts using different nomenclature and occurring outside of health research areas. There is much to be gained by bringing these parallel discussions together. In sustainability science, for example, scholars are struggling with the question of how stakeholders and scientists can coproduce knowledge that offers useful solutions to complex and urgent environmental problems. Like CBPR in health, sustainability science is denigrated for perceived lack of rigor because of its applied problem focus and lack of positivist approach. Approaches to knowledge creation in sustainability science involve "new" ideas such as wicked problems and agent-based modeling, which would be equally applicable to CBPR. Interestingly, sustainability research is motivated less by recognition of the corrosive effects of the inequality of power than from frustration at how limited the impact of research has been, a perspective that might be useful in CBPR, particularly in conjunction with the use of some borrowed tools of sustainability science such as wicked problem analysis and agent-based modeling. Importantly, the example of sustainability science has the potential to keep CBPR from entering into a new orthodoxy of how research should be done.
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- Linda Silka
- Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA.
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Cleary M, Hunt GE, Walter G, Jackson D. Fostering real-world clinical mental health research. J Clin Nurs 2010; 19:3453-8. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03487.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Clinton A, Amesty E. Community participation in the cultural adaptation of a prevention curriculum. SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 2010. [DOI: 10.1177/0143034310382492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The present project analysed the use of participatory models during the process of application of a prevention program with preschool-aged children in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Relevant phases in achieving community collaboration are delineated and challenges are discussed. Results indicate that participatory models provided an effective means of introducing and carrying out a prevention program in local schools although a significant level of commitment was required from all groups involved.
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- Amanda Clinton
- Psychology Program, Department of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico,
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- Program for Prevention and Treatment of Drug Use, University of Rafael Belloso Chacin, Maracaibo, Venezuela
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Kelly JG. More thoughts: on the spirit of community psychology. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2010; 45:272-284. [PMID: 20352360 DOI: 10.1007/s10464-010-9305-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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- James G Kelly
- MIRABELLA 934, 116 Fairview N, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
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Brugge D, Rivera-Carrasco E, Zotter J, Leung A. Community-based participatory research in Boston's neighborhoods: A review of asthma case examples. ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 2010; 65:38-44. [PMID: 20147002 DOI: 10.1080/19338240903390214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Three case examples of asthma studies that differ in terms of community and involvement are considered. The Boston Chinatown studies faced limited funding that restricted the level of community involvement, but resulted in some of the first published evidence about asthma in Asian American children. These studies led to an asthma education program grant to a local Asian clinic and elementary school. The public housing study was a well-funded multi-year study of asthma and pest management with city, university and community partners. Residents were trained to collect data and participated throughout the study. Follow up pest management and pesticide buy-back programs headed by the city and community partners have been funded. The Dorchester case had more limited funding, but had the greatest level of involvement of parents of asthmatic children in all phases of the research. This survey led to an interesting novel finding of lower asthma prevalence in foreign born black residents.
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- Doug Brugge
- Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
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Hyatt RR, Gute DM, Pirie A, Page H, Vasquez I, Dalembert F. Transferring knowledge about human subjects protections and the role of institutional review boards in a community-based participatory research project. Am J Public Health 2009; 99 Suppl 3:S526-31. [PMID: 19890152 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2008.155390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Among the first tasks in a collaboration between Tufts University and community organizations in Somerville, MA, was designing an interview instrument to assess occupational health needs among immigrant workers. Human subjects protections was a critical issue, but community partners were not well informed about the need for such protections or the role of the institutional review board (IRB). During research meetings, members of the team from Tufts trained community collaborators to work with research participants and organized a presentation by a key university IRB administrator. We present findings from the process evaluation of this project and suggest ways to (1) assess community partners' understanding about working with research volunteers, (2) train collaborators, and (3) involve IRBs.
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- Raymond R Hyatt
- Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
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Schensul JJ. Community, culture and sustainability in multilevel dynamic systems intervention science. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2009; 43:241-256. [PMID: 19387824 DOI: 10.1007/s10464-009-9228-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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This paper addresses intertwined issues in the conceptualization, implementation and evaluation of multilevel dynamic systems intervention science (MDSIS). Interventions are systematically planned, conducted and evaluated social science-based cultural products intercepting the lives of people and institutions in the context of multiple additional events and processes (which also may be referred to as interventions) that may speed, slow or reduce change towards a desired outcome. Multilevel interventions address change efforts at multiple social levels in the hope that effects at each level will forge synergistic links, facilitating movement toward desired change. This paper utilizes an ecological framework that identifies macro (policy and regulatory institutions), meso (organizations and agencies with resources, and power) and micro (individuals, families and friends living in communities) interacting directly and indirectly. An MDSIS approach hypothesizes that change toward a goal will occur faster and more effectively when synchronized and supported across levels in a social system. MDSIS approaches by definition involve "whole" communities and cannot be implemented without the establishments of working community partnerships This paper takes a dynamic systems approach to science as conducted in communities, and discusses four concepts that are central to MDSIS--science, community, culture, and sustainability. These concepts are important in community based participatory research and to the targeting, refinement, and adaptation of enduring interventions. Consistency in their meaning and use can promote forward movement in the field of MDSIS, and in community-based prevention science.
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- Jean J Schensul
- Institute for Community Research, 2 Hartford Square West, Ste. 100, Hartford, CT 06106, USA.
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Trickett EJ. Multilevel community-based culturally situated interventions and community impact: an ecological perspective. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2009; 43:257-66. [PMID: 19333751 DOI: 10.1007/s10464-009-9227-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The purpose of this paper is to apply an ecological perspective to the conduct of multilevel community-based culturally-situated interventions. After a discussion of the emerging consensus about the value of approaching such interventions ecologically, the paper outlines a series of questions stimulated by an ecological perspective that can guide further theory development in conducting multilevel interventions. These questions all derive from the importance of assessing the local community ecology where the intervention occurs. The paper concludes with a series of topics which, taken together, provide a roadmap for further conceptual development of multilevel interventions as vehicles for long-range community impact.
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- Edison J Trickett
- Department of Psychology (MC285), University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607-7137, USA.
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Schensul JJ, Trickett E. Introduction to multi-level community based culturally situated interventions. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2009; 43:232-40. [PMID: 19387821 DOI: 10.1007/s10464-009-9238-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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This introduction to a special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychiatry is the result of a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, 2006, that brought together anthropologists and psychologists involved in community based collaborative intervention studies to examine critically the assumptions, processes and results of their multilevel interventions in local communities with local partners. The papers were an effort to examine context by offering a theoretical framework for the concept of "level" in intervention science, and advocating for "multi-level" approaches to social/behavioral change. They presented examples of ways in which interventions targeted social "levels" either simultaneously or sequentially by working together with communities across levels, and drawing on and co-constructing elements of local culture as components of the intervention. The papers raised a number of important issues, for example: (1) How are levels defined and how should collaborators be chosen; (2) does it matter at which level multilevel interventions begin; (3) do multilevel interventions have a greater effect on desired outcomes than level-specific interventions; (4) are multilevel interventions more sustainable; (5) are multilevel interventions cost effective to run, and evaluate; (6) how can theories of intervention be generated and adapted to each level of a multilevel intervention; (7) how should intervention activities at each level coordinate to facilitate community resident or target population empowerment? Many of these questions were only partially addressed in the papers presented at that time, and are more fully addressed in the theoretical papers, case studies and approach to evaluation included in this collection.
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Community psychology has historically focused on understanding individual behavior in sociocultural context, assessing high-impact contexts, and working in and with communities to improve their resources and influence over their futures. This review adopts an ecological perspective on recent developments in the field, beginning with philosophy of science and progressing through a series of substantive research and intervention domains that characterize current work. These domains include research on the ecology of lives, the assessment of social settings and their impact on behavior, culture and diversity as expressed in the community research process, and community intervention.
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- Edison J Trickett
- Community & Prevention Research Division, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA.
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Brugge D, Kapunan P, Babcock-Dunning L, Matloff RG, Cagua-Koo D, Okoroh E, Salas FL, Bradeen L, Woodin M. Developing methods to compare low-education community-based and university-based survey teams. Health Promot Pract 2009; 11:645-53. [PMID: 19129433 DOI: 10.1177/1524839908329120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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We compared the quality of low-education community-based survey teams to college educated graduate students. Our approach was to develop methods, conduct a pilot survey, and report lessons. Community and university teams conducted surveys from non-overlapping random samples of addresses at a public housing development in Boston, Massachusetts. The two types of teams make a similar number of attempts (122 and 124, respectively), and there was no statistically significant difference between the teams in terms of response rate or amount of missing data. Similarly, there was no statistically significant difference in refusal rate or in responses to questions in the survey. There was, however, evidence that the community teams used data tracking forms improperly. This study suggests that it is possible to study the relative quality of community and university-based teams in terms of data collection. The findings also suggest that the two types of teams may be roughly comparable.
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- Doug Brugge
- Tufts Community Research Center, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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