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Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): Research that Addresses Difference, Power, and Discrimination: Home

This guide will assist those seeking research that is community-based and participatory in nature.

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Uta Hussong-Christian
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Contact me for library instruction or library research help for departments and programs in College of Health (Cascades & Corvallis), College of Pharmacy, and College of Vet Med. I can also help with EndNote questions.

Background Reading

CBPR - Skill Building

Learning about CPBR (including the option of a free online course*:  A Partnership Approach for Public Health) from the  Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center (Detroit URC).

*The course is maintained by the Region V Public Health Training Center based at the University of Michigan. The Detroit URC was involved in the original development of the course and later updates.

Overview

The genesis of this brief guide was the Difference, Power, and Oppression (DPO) Program I attended in Summer 2014 at Oregon State University. In my work with College of Health students, I see that many are interested in research topics that address the health disparities of under-represented. marginalized, and minority populations. This guide is intended only to serve as a starting point in valuing and incorporting this type of research in student projects. Disclosure: I am not a CBPR methodologist or practitioner.

What is Community-Based Participatory Research?

"Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an applied collaborative approach that enables community residents to more actively participate in the full spectrum of research (from conception – design – conduct – analysis – interpretation – conclusions – communication of results) with a goal of influencing change in community health, systems, programs or policies."

(NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research)

CBPR helps address concerns of exploitation and research fatigue among members of disadvanteged, marginalized, stigmatized, and under-represented communities who have often been the subject of research studies. CBPR promotes "research with" these communities and their members rather than "research on" these communities and their members.

Key Principles of CBPR

The key principles of CBPR are:

1. recognizes community as a unit of identity;
2. builds on strengths and resources within the community;
3. facilitates collaborative, equitable involvement of all partners in all phases
of the research;
4. integrates knowledge and action for mutual benefit of all partners;
5. promotes a co-learning and empowering process that attends to social
inequalities;
6. involves a cyclical and iterative process;
7. addresses health from both positive and ecological perspectives;
8. disseminates findings and knowledge gained to all partners; and
9. involves a long-term commitment by all partners.


Source:

Israel, B.A., Schulz, A.J., Parker, E.A., & Becker, A.B. (2001). Community-based participatory research: Policy recommendations for promoting a partnership approach in health research. Education for Health, 14(2), 182-197. Retrieved from https://journals.lww.com/edhe/abstract/2001/14020/community_based_participatory_research__policy.6.aspx

Who Engages in CBPR

A simple keyword search on "community-based participatory research" in Web of Science reveals literature from across a wide range of research areas.

research areas associated with CBPR