Variation in the interpretation of scientific integrity in community-based participatory health research.

Autor: Kraemer Diaz AE; Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA. Electronic address: anne.e.kraemer@gmail.com., Spears Johnson CR, Arcury TA
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Social science & medicine (1982) [Soc Sci Med] 2013 Nov; Vol. 97, pp. 134-42. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Aug 28.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.08.023
Abstrakt: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has become essential in health disparities and environmental justice research; however, the scientific integrity of CBPR projects has become a concern. Some concerns, such as appropriate research training, lack of access to resources and finances, have been discussed as possibly limiting the scientific integrity of a project. Prior to understanding what threatens scientific integrity in CBPR, it is vital to understand what scientific integrity means for the professional and community investigators who are involved in CBPR. This analysis explores the interpretation of scientific integrity in CBPR among 74 professional and community research team members from of 25 CBPR projects in nine states in the southeastern United States in 2012. It describes the basic definition for scientific integrity and then explores variations in the interpretation of scientific integrity in CBPR. Variations in the interpretations were associated with team member identity as professional or community investigators. Professional investigators understood scientific integrity in CBPR as either conceptually or logistically flexible, as challenging to balance with community needs, or no different than traditional scientific integrity. Community investigators interpret other factors as important in scientific integrity, such as trust, accountability, and overall benefit to the community. This research demonstrates that the variations in the interpretation of scientific integrity in CBPR call for a new definition of scientific integrity in CBPR that takes into account the understanding and needs of all investigators.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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