Chap 1: On CBPR Flashcards
(18 cards)
True or False: CBPR is community-placed
False: CBRP is community-based and community-directed rather than community-placed.
Who are some of the key partners in CBPR?
CBPR integrates community leaders and members as key partners in a community-engaged research process
True or False: CBPR is a collaborative approach that equitably involves all partners
CBPR is a collaborative approach to research that equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings.
Who determines the research topic in CBPR
CBPR begins with a research topic of importance to the community with the aim of combining knowledge and action for social change to improve community health and eliminate health disparities.
True or False: CBPR focuses on using data to improve social equity
True: CBPR embraces collaborative efforts among community, academic, and other stakeholders who gather and use research and data to build upon the strengths and priorities of the community for multilevel strategies to improve health and social equity.
Which best represents traditional research? 1) The community determines questions asked, 2) Local stakeholders develop interventions based upon the research, or 3) The outside researcher determines the data and outcomes that are valued
Traditional research: Outside researcher largely has determined the questions asked, the research tools employed, the interventions developed, and the kinds of outcomes documented and valued.
True or False: Knowledge democracy focuses on translating expertise from academia into community practice.
False: Knowledge democracy reclaims the expertise residing in the world of practice, beyond academia.
True or False: CBPR is a research method
False: CBPR and other collaborative approaches are not methods but an orientation or a fundamentally different approach to research. Distinction is not the methods but the contexts of their application, the attitudes of researchers which in turn determine how, by and for whom the research is conceptualized and conducted and the corresponding location of power at every stage of the research process.
How does CBPR commit to consciously change power relationships?
Central to CBPR and related approaches is the commitment to consciously change the power relationship between researcher and researched, seeking to eradicate the distinction between who does the studying and who gets studied (or decides what gets studied). What matters is the creation of mutually reinforcing partnerships.
How can mistrust of research develop in communities?
Mistrust of research can be developed in communities that face helicopter or drive-by research when data is solicited taken and not returned to the community.
What are the potential impacts of privileging evidenced-based approaches?
Evidenced-based approaches that count in traditional academic and other research settings often ignore, discount or erase the community evidence and local knowledge necessary to create culturally effective and sustainable interventions.
What is translational research?
Translational research: Findings can be more quickly and effectively incorporated into practice, programs and policies to begin to redress these imbalances.
What does decolonizing research mean?
Decolonizing research calls for indigenous and community knowledge to reach goals of knowledge democracy and justice.
What are some of the other terms that are related to CBPR?
Other terms include action research, collaborative action research, community-based research, participatory action research, collaborative inquiry, reflexive practice, feminist participatory research.
True or False: Participatory research emerged from the Global South.
True: Participatory research emerged from roots of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire’s popular education and the liberatory movement in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
What does community-driven mean?
Beyond shared leadership, research should be based on community priorities, strengths, and actions.
Are focus groups to elicit community opinions CBPR?
Focus groups are not in themselves CBPR. CBPR requires structures for participation that have decision-making authority.
True of False: Confronting power dynamics is reflected in the continuum of participation and decision making
True: The continuum of participation and decision-making reminds us of the importance of reflection on our own values and commitment to confront power dynamics within research processes to benefit communities. Principles accenting true partnership and achieving a balance between research and action toward equity and emancipatory values are critical for CBPR practice.
