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Challenges and Facilitating Factors in Conducting Community-Based Research: Lessons Learned

Challenges and Facilitating Factors in Conducting Community-Based Research: Lessons Learned . By: B. Israel, A. Schultz, E. Parker, & A. Becker Caitlin Fletcher. WHAT ARE THE MAIN CHALLENGES??. Developing and maintaining a partnership between community members and researchers

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Challenges and Facilitating Factors in Conducting Community-Based Research: Lessons Learned

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  1. Challenges and Facilitating Factors in Conducting Community-Based Research: Lessons Learned By: B. Israel, A. Schultz, E. Parker, & A. Becker Caitlin Fletcher

  2. WHAT ARE THE MAIN CHALLENGES?? • Developing and maintaining a partnership between community members and researchers • Research methodological practices • Social, political, economic, institutional, and cultural issues

  3. PARTNERSHIP-RELATED ISSUES:Challenges/Barriers/Tensions • Lack of trust and respect • Inequitable distribution of power and control • Conflicts associated with differences in perspective, priorities, assumptions, values, beliefs, and language • Conflicts over funding • Conflicts associated with different emphases on task and process • Time-consuming process • Representing and defining the community

  4. PARTNERSHIP-RELATED ISSUES:What can we do? • Promote understanding and sensitivity of community norms • Identify common goals and objectives • Create a democracy • Facilitates a community organizer and support team • Identify key community members and get them involved

  5. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES:Challenges/Barriers/Tensions • Quality and validity of research • Proving intervention success • Balance between research and action • Time demands • Interpreting data from multiple sources

  6. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES:What can we do? • Methodological flexibility • Involve community members in research activities • Conduct community assessment/diagnosis • Provide educational forums and training opportunities • Involve community members in publishing process

  7. SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, INSTITUTIONAL, AND CULTURAL ISSUES:Challenges/Barriers/Tensions • Competing institutional demands • Risk associated with achieving tenure and promotion within academia • Expectations/demands from the funding institutions • Political and social dynamics within the community

  8. SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, INSTITUTIONAL, AND CULTURAL ISSUES:What can we do? • Provision of financial and other incentives • Actions promoting policy changes

  9. Final Thoughts!!! Emphasis on integrating the generation knowledge into strategies to provide community and social change Not the only or best approach to conducting research in public health Will not resolve broader social issues, such as racism and economic inequalities Aimed towards working with marginalized communities

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