Using community-based participatory research and organizational diagnosis to characterize relationships between community leaders and academic researchers
| Autor: | Ann Greene, Amy Carroll-Scott, Kenn Harris, Georgina Lucas, Marjorie S. Rosenthal, Natasha Ray, David N. Berg, Karen H. Wang, Barbara Tinney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Knowledge management
Community-academic partnerships lcsh:Medicine Organizational culture Community-based participatory research Health Informatics Grounded theory 03 medical and health sciences Community-engaged research 0302 clinical medicine Social skills 11. Sustainability Inter-group relationships 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology Organizational theory CBPR community-based participatory research 030505 public health business.industry lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Regular Article Public relations CEnR community-engaged research Snowball sampling Qualitative study 0305 other medical science business Privilege (social inequality) Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Preventive Medicine Reports Preventive Medicine Reports, Vol 7, Iss C, Pp 180-186 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 2211-3355 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.06.007 |
| Popis: | Sustaining collaborations between community-based organization leaders and academic researchers in community-engaged research (CEnR) in the service of decreasing health inequities necessitates understanding the collaborations from an inter-organizational perspective. We assessed the perspectives of community leaders and university-based researchers conducting community-engaged research in a medium-sized city with a history of community-university tension. Our research team, included experts in CEnR and organizational theory, used qualitative methods and purposeful, snowball sampling to recruit local participants and performed key informant interviews from July 2011–May 2012. A community-based researcher interviewed 11 community leaders, a university-based researcher interviewed 12 university-based researchers. We interviewed participants until we reached thematic saturation and performed analyses using the constant comparative method. Unifying themes characterizing community leaders and university-based researchers' relationships on the inter-organizational level include: 1) Both groups described that community-engaged university-based researchers are exceptions to typical university culture; 2) Both groups described that the interpersonal skills university-based researchers need for CEnR require a change in organizational culture and training; 3) Both groups described skepticism about the sustainability of a meaningful institutional commitment to community-engaged research 4) Both groups described the historical impact on research relationships of race, power, and privilege, but only community leaders described its persistent role and relevance in research relationships. Challenges to community-academic research partnerships include researcher interpersonal skills and different perceptions of the importance of organizational history. Solutions to improve research partnerships may include transforming university culture and community-university discussions on race, power, and privilege. Highlights • Community leaders perceive community-engaged researchers as exceptions to the rule. • Community leaders and academics are unsure of institutional support for the research. • Community leaders discuss the persistence of race and power in research partnerships. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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