Question

Community Engagement (CE) or Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): How do you think the goals and objectives of CE and CBPR differ?

Community Involvement: When and how would you, as a public health professional who is looking to conduct a research proposal, involve a community in the research process? What would it depend on? Why might a community not be involved in the research process?

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Answer 1

• Community engagement can be broadly defined as the process of working collaboratively with groups of people who are affiliated by geographic proximity, special interests, or similar situations with respect to issues affecting their well-being.
• A community-engaged research approach can enable researchers to strengthen the links between research and practice and enhance translational results.
• Community-engaged research is a framework or approach for conducting research, not a methodology. A community-engaged research study may incorporate both qualitative and quantitative methods.
• This approach encourages recognition of the strengths of community institutions and individuals and encourages people and groups to build on those strengths.
• What characterizes communityengaged research is not the methods used, but the principles that guide the research and the relationships between researchers and the community.
• Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a form of community engaged research, involving a collaborative approach for participation, shared decision-making, and mutual ownership in all aspects of the research process by communities affected by the issue being studied, researchers, and organizational representatives.
• Characteristics of the CBPR approach include (a) recognizing the community as a unit of identity, (b) building on the strengths and resources of the community, (c) promoting colearning among research partners, (d) achieving a balance between research and action that mutually benefits both science and the community.
• It has the potential to make research more responsive to existing needs and to enhance a community’s ability to address important health issues.
• A key goal of CBPR is to enhance a community’s ability to address important health issues through the development of effective interventions that can be maintained over time.
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