Bringing Community and Academic Scholars Together to Facilitate and Conduct Authentic Community Based Participatory Research: Project UNITED

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Dwight Lewis⁶  Lea Yerby⁶  Melanie Tucker³  Pamela Payne Foster⁶  Kara C. Hamilton⁶  Matthew M. Fifolt⁴  Lisle Hites⁴  Mary Katherine Shreves¹  Susan B. Page⁶  Kimberly L. Bissell¹  Felecia L. Lucky⁵  John C. Higginbotham⁶  Mark Edberg²  Barbara E. Hayes²  Valerie Montgomery Rice² 

[1] Institute for Communication and Information Research, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA;;Institute for Rural Health Research, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USADepartment of Family Medicine, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA;Evaluation and Assessment Unit, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA;Black Belt Community Foundation, Selma, AL 36701, USA;Institute for Rural Health Research, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA;

关键词: community based;    participatory;    collaboration;    cultural competency;    grantsmanship;    research literacy;    rural;    obesity;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph13010035

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Cultural competency, trust, and research literacy can affect the planning and implementation of sustainable community-based participatory research (CBPR). The purpose of this manuscript is to highlight: (1) the development of a CBPR pilot grant request for application; and (2) a comprehensive program supporting CBPR obesity-related grant proposals facilitated by activities designed to promote scholarly collaborations between academic researchers and the community. After a competitive application process, academic researchers and non-academic community leaders were selected to participate in activities where the final culminating project was the submission of a collaborative obesity-related CBPR grant application. Teams were comprised of a mix of academic researchers and non-academic community leaders, and each team submitted an application addressing obesity-disparities among rural predominantly African American communities in the US Deep South. Among four collaborative teams, three (75%) successfully submitted a grant application to fund an intervention addressing rural and minority obesity disparities. Among the three submitted grant applications, one was successfully funded by an internal CBPR grant, and another was funded by an institutional seed funding grant. Preliminary findings suggest that the collaborative activities were successful in developing productive scholarly relationships between researchers and community leaders. Future research will seek to understand the full-context of our findings.

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