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Engaging communities to identify needs and develop solutions: participatory research incorporates community voice in all aspects of health research decision-making
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
1. Summarize principles of participatory research and distinguish between traditional
research and participatory research.
2. Describe and understand the benefi ts and value, as well as the challenges, of participatory
research for community and for the research process.
3. Describe how participatory research underpins knowledge translation.
4. Appreciate who is community, how community is represented, and the ethical implications
surrounding community.
5. Provide examples of how participatory research has been incorporated into various
research designs (such as randomized control trials)
Knowledge, capacity and readiness: translating successful experiences in community-based participatory research for health promotion
Capacity building is a guiding principle of community-based participatory
research (CBPR). This paper explores the interrelationship between capacity
building and the concepts of readiness and intercommunity knowledge
translation. A five-year study examined two long-standing projects for the
primary prevention of type 2 diabetes in Aboriginal communities, to translate
the lessons learned from those experiences into capacity for diabetes
prevention in a third Aboriginal community. Reviewing external factors with
the PRECEDE-PROCEED model of health promotion reveals that readiness for
change requires both intra- and extra-community enabling factors including
expertise from other communities, national and international organizations,
federal health service funding, available research and intervention funding,
and availability of external partners. These resources do not address the community
health issue directly, but rather build capacity, objective and environmental,
for the community to address the issue itself. It was found that a
community that is internally ready, and situated within an external enabling
environment rich in appropriate resources, can translate the knowledge from
other successful community experiences to develop the capacity to initiate
community health promotion for diabetes prevention