Bryan V, Brye W, Hudson K, Dubose L, Hansberry S, Arrieta M. Investigating health disparities through community-based participatory research: lessons learned from a process evaluation.
SOCIAL WORK IN PUBLIC HEALTH 2014;
29:318-334. [PMID:
24871770 PMCID:
PMC4272491 DOI:
10.1080/19371918.2013.821356]
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Abstract
This article describes one university's efforts to partner with a local agency (the "Coalition") within a disadvantaged, predominantly African American neighborhood, to assist them with studying their community's health disparities and health care access. The final, mutually agreed-upon plan used a community-based participatory research approach, wherein university researchers prepared neighborhood volunteers and Coalition members to conduct face-to-face interviews with residents about their health and health care access. Subsequently, the Coalition surveyed 138 residents, and the agency now possesses extensive data about the nature and extent of health problems in their community. Lessons learned from these experiences are offered.
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