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17103339

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-12-22
pubmed:abstractText
Boston is one of the preeminent health care and research centers in the world, but for much of its urban core, these resources are largely out of reach. Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) provides a model with the potential to bridge the gaps between its research prominence and the health of its residents. We report here two case studies of major research projects that were partnerships between universities in Boston and community based organizations and city agencies. The Healthy Public Housing Initiative (HPHI) and the Asthma Center on Community Environment and Social Stress (ACCESS) are projects that provide numerous lessons about the potential and challenges of conducting CBPR. Ensuring that the projects were true partnerships emerged as key issues in both, especially with respect to funding mechanisms and distribution of resources, although the nature of the challenges differed substantially in the two projects. We note that both academic and community partners may harbor stereotypes about the other and that generalizations about broad populations, academics or community members, may not apply well to everyone. Aligning objectives and expectations emerged as another key lesson. In HPHI, tension between service delivery and research was both a source of conflict and a source of creative development that led to divergent but interesting outcomes. In ACCESS, the tensions revolved more around community capacity building while attempting to build and maintain a large cohort for epidemiological investigations. We conclude that open and frank discussion and a transparent process upfront about project direction, finances, expectations, and other dimensions are necessary but not sufficient to address the inherent challenges in CBPR, and that even so, there are likely to be differences in perspective in such partnerships that require honest negotiation throughout the process of the project.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1099-3460
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
83
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1013-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Challenges of conducting community-based participatory research in Boston's neighborhoods to reduce disparities in asthma.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc., Boston, MA, USA. e.freeman@neu.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article