Engage for Equity: Development of Community-Based Participatory Research Tools

Parker, Myra; Wallerstein, Nina; Duran, Bonnie; Magarati, Maya; Burgess, Ellen; Sanchez-Youngman, Shannon; Boursaw, Blake; Heffernan, Amanda; Garoutte, Justin; Koegel, Paul

doi:10.1177/1090198120921188

Cited by 47 publications

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“…Our project team found that integrating PCOR and patient engagement methods with CBPR principles helped us to define a process for working together to complete meaningful work despite threats to developing and maintaining an equitable partnership. Other recent work in generating CBPR tools has also recognized the utility of integrating frameworks (Parker et al., 2020). Based on our experience, applying portions of several frameworks that offer distinct solutions to partnership challenges could make programs and research at the margin of the community and health care organizations more effective at reducing health disparities.…”

Section: Lessons Learnedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community partnerships in emerging immigrant communities: Lessons learned addressing Latino childhood weight disparities

DeCamp

Acosta

Delgado

et al. 2021

Public Health Nursing

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Latino children have disproportionately high childhood obesity rates, and U.S.‐born Latino children of immigrant parents experience higher overweight/obesity rates than other Latino children. Community‐based participatory research (CBPR) to engage Latino immigrant families and Latino‐serving community organizations is one mechanism to address the lack of effective and practical interventions addressing childhood obesity disparities among Latino children. We present lessons learned from applying CBPR methods to a partnership focused on developing a child obesity treatment program for Latino immigrant families in an emerging Latino immigrant destination to inform the use of CBPR methods in other partnerships in emerging immigrant communities. We encountered challenges working within the partnership related to entrenched sociopolitical hierarchies that were not inclusive of immigrant community leaders, capacity building for partners with limited literacy and administrative experience, and how best to use complementary methods and frameworks to support a community‐engaged research process. This work is one way to promote shared learning among the community of researchers using CBPR and other engagement methods to partner with emerging immigrant communities. Together with our community partners, we can identify strategies to more effectively partner to promote health equity and work toward social justice for all members of our communities.

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Section: Lessons Learnedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community partnerships in emerging immigrant communities: Lessons learned addressing Latino childhood weight disparities

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Acosta

Delgado

et al. 2021

Public Health Nursing

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“…Because we (the authors) thought river metaphors could be helpful in communicating across such a diverse group-which included participants from rural communities and cities, community-based organizations and NGOs, and Spanish and Quechua speakers (all spoke Spanish, but some spoke more fluently in Quechua)we incorporated "River of Life (RoL)" method (see Wallerstein & Auerbach, 2004;Parker et al, 2020,) into the systematization of our planning process. Specifically, we asked participants to record on index cards the most significant moments and actions from their participation in the BD regional planning process and subsequent program implementation (a 3-year period from 2012-14 approx).…”

Section: River Of Life As a "Systematized" Expression Of Our Shared Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flowing With the River’s Go: Seeking Ethical, Pragmatic, and Strategic Participation in the Design of a Regional Funding Strategy

Aragón

Hoetmer

2020

International Review of Qualitative Research

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In this article, we share methodological lessons learned from a participatory regional planning process which was intended to produce a regional strategy for a multiactor program on human rights and rural development in the Southern Highlands of Peru, funded by the Belgian solidarity organization Broederlijk Delen (BD). The underlying goal of the planning process, which was also funded by BD, was to shift the practices of planning, decision making, and evaluation in the program, by strengthening participation of local communities and social change-focused organizations. As such, a broad group of these actors were invited and participated in the nearly year-long planning process. Throughout, we as facilitators used many creative, reflective methods—for example, drawings, co-construction of timelines and mind maps, reflective plenaries, and so forth—that we hoped would “speak” to the different participants’ learning styles and ways of knowing and therefore increase their levels of participation and ownership in the process and program. In this article, we ask the question “to what extent was the process really participatory?” in order to help explain ways in which “participatory methods” enable and constrain participant knowledge and identity, and highlight ways to improve participation through the use of methodology.

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“…To build on and expand our nascent understanding of how partnerships successfully worked together to achieve their outcomes, the current study, Engage for Equity (E2), sought to not only refine but extend previous RIH measures. We also conducted an intervention trial of workshops compared with online resources to strengthen power sharing and collective empowerment practices toward partnerships' desired outcomes (Dickson et al, 2020;Parker et al, 2020;Wallerstein et al, 2020). We hypothesized (and sought to create a new measure of) "Collective Empowerment," as a key driver of both structural and relational pathways to partnership outcomes, building from the community empowerment definition of people participating collectively, embracing core values for social change, and engaging in Freirian critical reflection and action to gain control over their lives (Allen et al, 1989;Freire, 1970).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, based on psychometric results from the previous study (Oetzel et al, 2015), community consultations (Belone et al, 2016), and consultation with a national advisory group of community and academic researchers (Wallerstein et al, 2020), we included new subscales (n = 5), shortened longer subscales (n = 5), made major revisions to or dropped several subscales (n = 5), and made minor revisions to enhance readability of other subscales (n = 4). The result was seven major scales (with 23 subscales) corresponding to the domains of the CBPR conceptual model: contextual capacity, commitment to collective empowerment, relationships, community engagement in research actions (CERA), synergy, partner and partnership transformation as part of intermediate systems and capacity changes, and longer-term projected outcomes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%