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

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

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 progra...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 13; no. 1; p. ijerph13010035
Main Authors: Lewis, Dwight, Yerby, Lea, Tucker, Melanie, Foster, Pamela Payne, Hamilton, Kara C, Fifolt, Matthew M, Hites, Lisle, Shreves, Mary Katherine, Page, Susan B, Bissell, Kimberly L, Lucky, Felecia L, Higginbotham, John C
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 22-12-2015
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Subjects:
African Americans
Alabama - epidemiology
Collaboration
Community-Based Participatory Research - economics
Community-Based Participatory Research - methods
Community-Based Participatory Research - organization & administration
Cooperative Behavior
Grants
Health Status Disparities
Humans
Obesity
Obesity - ethnology
Obesity - therapy
Program Development
Project Report
Research Support as Topic
Rural areas
Rural Health - ethnology
Alabama
community based
research literacy
collaboration
rural
cultural competency
grantsmanship
obesity
participatory
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Summary: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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ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph13010035