Abstract

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) emphasizes collaborative partnerships between community members, community organizations, healthcare providers and researchers to generate knowledge and solve local problems. CBPR has gained popularity in health care and public health practices since the early 1990s due to its potential to shed light on the understanding of individuals' health-related experiences, and creation of workable and appropriate services. However, despite its widespread use in other disciplines, CBPR is not adopted widely in the area of family science or family and health research programmes. Although relatively new to family science research, community-based approaches can be linked to early family life education outreach efforts. Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. As behaviour is increasingly implicated as the source of health problems, enhancement of

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