Community Engagement and Community-Based Participatory Research, Part 3 of 3

>> Tiffany Powell-Wiley: Hello, my name is Dr. Tiffany Powell-Wiley and I'm chief of the Social Determinants of Obesity and Cardiovascular Risks laboratory at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Today I will be talking about community engagement and Community Based Participatory Research. And this is part three of a three-part series. In this talk, I will describe the phases of conducting

Community Based Participatory Research or CBPR, the challenges in CBPR, and the benefits of CBPR. As depicted in this figure, there are seven broad components in conducting CBPR. The first core component is forming a CBPR partnership. And this involves processes such as identifying potential partners and communities to be involved, building trust and relationships,

establishing operating norms and CBPR principles, and creating an infrastructure for carrying out the research process. The second component is assessing community strengths and dynamics. This involves asking questions such as, what are the strengths and resources in the community? Which are the influential organizations? Where's the power in the community? Who needs to be involved to ensure community buy-in?

The third component is identifying priority local health concerns and research questions. Equate -- a key question here is, how do we figure out what are the major health problems that impact the community, and that the partnership might address. The fourth component involves designing, conducting, and disseminating the intervention or policy or etiological research.

And this involves deciding which research design and data collection methods to use, and what is the most appropriate intervention strategy. The fifth component is feeding back and interpreting the findings within the partnership. And this involves sharing the findings from the research, such as the results of the analysis of data, and engaging partners to make sense of what was found.