our community participatory research project: a model for reciprocal empowerment
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OUR COMMUNITY PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH PROJECT: A MODEL FOR RECIPROCAL EMPOWERMENT. Dinah Ramirez, RN Barbara Akpan, RN, MS Margaret Davis, RN, MSN, FNP George Smith, MPH. TRADITIONAL RESEARCH. Limited partnerships Limited sharing of resources. EXAMPLES OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH RESOURCES. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
OUR COMMUNITY PARTICIPATORY
RESEARCH PROJECT: A MODEL FOR RECIPROCAL
EMPOWERMENT
Dinah Ramirez, RNBarbara Akpan, RN, MS
Margaret Davis, RN, MSN, FNPGeorge Smith, MPH
TRADITIONAL RESEARCH
Limited partnerships
Limited sharing of resources
EXAMPLES OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH RESOURCES
• Research expertise
• Language
• Familiarity with academic environment
• Data collection & analysis
• Grant writing
EXAMPLES OF COMMUNITY RESEARCH RESOURCES
• Language
• Service provider
• Network of community-based organizations
• Familiarity with physical environment
UIC CPHHD COMMUNITY-INVESTIGATOR
COLLABORATION
PRE-UIC CPHHD
CPHHD Year 1
CPHHD Year 2
CPHHD Year 3
EXAMPLES OF PARTNERSHIP
BENEFITS
BENEFITS TO UIC CPHHD
• Better research intervention tools
• Trained facilitators
• Mammography facility analysis tool
• Proposal for a navigation system
• Identified other study areas
• Information
BENEFITS TO COMMUNITY
• Focus groups
• Town hall meetings
• Walkathons
• Conferences & support groups
• Translatable skills
• Capacity building
• Information
Researchers become fully engaged with the
community and the community fully
engaged in research.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Other CPHHD Community Advisory Committee Members contributing to
this work include P. Bowman, PhD, C. Ferrans, PhD,
A. Giachello, PhD, V. Martinez, JD,
R. B. Warnecke, PhD, and M. Willis, MS, RN.