166317 Overview and Pre-course assessment

Sunday, November 4, 2007: 8:00 AM

Suzanne Cashman, ScD , Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
The purpose of this Institute is to help participants who are familiar with and possibly have some experience in CBPR sharpen their data collection and analysis skills. A systematic approach to inquiry which equitably involves community and other partners throughout the research process and views action as an integral part of the endeavor, CBPR recently was identified by the IOM as one of eight new areas in which all public health schools should be providing training. The CDC, the NIH and a number of large and small foundations similarly have begun calling for proposals that incorporate a CBPR approach. These developments reflect in part growing concern that traditional outside expert-driven approaches often have proven poorly suited to researching and developing interventions aimed at many of today's most intractable health and social issues, e.g., homelessness, teen pregnancy, violence, environmental pollution.

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this institute, participants will be able to: a. Define community-based participatory research and distinguish it from other forms of inquiry b.Identify three methods of data collection, i.e., focus group, mapping, and survey that can be used jointly by members of a partnership c. List the advantages and drawbacks of each of the three methods of data collection d. Identify the analysis and presentation implications for selecting each data collection method e. Identify three critical issues that arise when adopting and applying the principles of community-based participatory research for data analysis and collection f. Discuss the roles and approaches for scholars and community members in community-based participatory data collection, analysis and interpretation.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.