A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Hurricane Katrina: When Disasters, Environmental Health Threats, and Disparities Collide

Lichtveld, Maureen Y.; Covert, Hannah; El-Dahr, J.M.; Grimsley, L. Faye; Cohn, Richard D.; Watson, Claire Hayes; Thornton, Eleanor; Kennedy, Suzanne

doi:10.2105/ajph.2020.305759

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“…Some have recognized that the CBPR approach may be particularly well suited to the COVID-19 context, given its emphasis on remaining flexible and in tune with community needs (Tufts, 2020). Despite the abundance of literature on the use of CBPR during challenging times, including in postdisaster contexts, there remains limited publications focusing on how public health crises akin to the ever-evolving COVID-19 pandemic may complicate such research (Fortune et al, 2010;Lichtveld et al, 2020;E. B. Zimmerman et al, 2020).…”

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Going Virtual: Building Online Collaborations to Understand COVID-19’s Psychosocial Impacts on New York City Adults

Madden

Ghebretinsae

Hoque

et al. 2022

Journal of Participatory Research Methods

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The start of the COVID-19 pandemic altered the research landscape dramatically, but the need to understand impacts on communities through research was as great as ever. In this paper, we detail the adaptive processes we leveraged to bring a network of community and academic partners together virtually and collaboratively build a survey reaching diverse populations, the challenges we faced, and what ultimately facilitated our success. The largest driver of our work was our shared goal of gaining a better understanding of the psychosocial impacts of the pandemic on New Yorkers in order to address their needs more meaningfully. Pre-existing relationships with community partners and flexible working processes grounded in equity also supported the functioning of the team. While participant recruitment proved to be challenging, the team pivoted and employed several strategies to reach our intended audiences and increase participation. This paper includes community stakeholders’ reflections on facilitators and barriers to survey development and recruitment in the context of a pandemic, as well as considerations for moving forward with virtual community-engaged research under challenging circumstances. In addition to sharing the collaborative processes that we built, our research-to-action network’s outputs, and our reflections on successes and roadblocks we faced, this paper highlights lessons in the importance of flexibility, trust, and innovation when conducting collaborative research during rapidly evolving public health crises.

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confidence: 99%

Going Virtual: Building Online Collaborations to Understand COVID-19’s Psychosocial Impacts on New York City Adults

Madden

Ghebretinsae

Hoque

et al. 2022

Journal of Participatory Research Methods

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“…We developed the evaluation framework using a participatory approach (Figure 1). The design was informed by our previous experience23,24 conducting community-based participatory research (CBPR). CBPR is a collaborative approach emphasizing research with communities, as opposed to in or about communities 25.…”

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“The More We Know, the More We're Able to Help”: Participatory Development of an Evaluation Framework for Community Health Worker Programs

Sherman

Covert

Lichtveld

2022

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

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Context: It is critical to evaluate community health worker (CHW) programs to maximize effectiveness. However, there is little consensus, and structure, for how to evaluate such programs. Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop a flexible framework for evaluating components of CHW programs in community and clinical settings. Design: Semistructured interviews were conducted with CHWs and their supervisors to determine evaluation categories for the framework. A survey was then administered to pilot the framework at federally qualified health centers and community-based organizations with existing CHW programs. Setting: Eighteen federally qualified health centers and community-based organizations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Participants: Participants consisted of 23 CHWs and 19 CHW supervisors. Results: Interview participants directly informed the development of an evaluation framework for CHW programs. The framework consists of 7 evaluation categories: client relations, intraorganizational relations, interorganizational relations, capacity development, program effectiveness, cost-efficiency, and sustainability. Survey respondents specified best practices for program implementation for each evaluation category. Recommendations for CHW program evaluation include tailoring evaluation efforts and data collection methods to program context, using mixed-methods approaches for collecting evaluation data, and streamlining evaluation efforts with an organization's existing evaluation systems. Conclusions: The evaluation framework is a flexible and practical model for collecting information needed for monitoring and evaluating CHW programs. By relying on practitioners' perspectives, this study contributes to an evidence base for implementing and evaluating CHW programs.

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“…It builds from a community-based participatory research design (Ablah et al, 2016) that the Indigenous Health Research Group (IHRG) has been using for the past decade in their research with diverse Indigenous communities in northern Canada. In addition to stimulating action oriented results, this type of research is very conducive to the development of policy that benefits individuals and communities as it better reflects their needs and experiences (Jagosh et al, 2015).…”

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Assessing the contribution of traditional foods to food security for the Wapekeka First Nation of Canada

Robidoux

Winnepetonga

Santosa

et al. 2021

Appl. Physiol. Nutr. Metab.

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The food security crisis and disproportionately high burden of dietary related disease amongst northern Indigenous populations in Canada continues to be a troubling reality with little sign of improvement. The Government of Canada is responding by developing programs to support local food initiatives for northern isolated communities. While such investments appear commendable, the impact of local food harvesting to improve food security has yet to be determined. While there are clear nutritional and cultural benefits to traditional food sources, communities face considerable barriers acquiring it in sufficient amounts because of historically imposed lifestyle changes that have increased food insecurity rates. This study responds by providing a novel multidisciplinary approach that draws from firsthand experiences working with First Nations community members in a remote subarctic region in northwestern, Ontario to estimate their community’s total food requirement and the amount of wild animal food sources needed to sustain yearly food intake. This transferrable energy demand approach will be critical for policy makers to put into perspective the amount of wild food needed to have an impact on food security rates and ultimately improve dietary related diseases. Novelty: • It will provide government policy makers information about current harvest yields in a remote northern First Nation to understand the potential contribution of traditional food to improve local food security • Provides Indigenous communities a means to assess local food resources to measure the caloric contributions of traditional foods toward household food security

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A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Hurricane Katrina: When Disasters, Environmental Health Threats, and Disparities Collide

Cited by 10 publications

References 17 publications

Going Virtual: Building Online Collaborations to Understand COVID-19’s Psychosocial Impacts on New York City Adults

Going Virtual: Building Online Collaborations to Understand COVID-19’s Psychosocial Impacts on New York City Adults

“The More We Know, the More We're Able to Help”: Participatory Development of an Evaluation Framework for Community Health Worker Programs

Assessing the contribution of traditional foods to food security for the Wapekeka First Nation of Canada

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