Practicing Community-Engaged Research

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OPEN ACCESSApril 2, 2008Practicing Community-Engaged Research Mary Anne McDonald, MA, DrPH Mary Anne McDonald, MA, DrPH Duke University School of Medicine Google Scholar More articles by this author https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.1127 SectionsAbout ToolsDownload Citations ShareFacebookTwitterEmail AbstractThis resource is a slide-based desktop tutorial presenting an overview of community-engaged research, which is an important approach to health research as part of the new Translational Research Initiative of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The tutorial comprises four sections, each with separate learning objectives. This resource provides background on the NIH's increased emphasis on translational research and provides the history and development of community-engaged research. The module describes how community-engaged research differs from traditional research, the guiding principles of the community engagement approach, and how this approach can be incorporated into the basic steps of the research process. It also identifies some of the challenges and rewards that researchers may encounter when using a community-engaged research approach. This professionally produced presentation includes illustrations and tables, as well as explanatory text accompanying each of the 42 slides. An evaluation of the tutorial showed that 74% of 318 users rated it “Outstanding” or “Above Average” for presentation and content. Educational Objectives By the end of this simulation case, participants will be able to: Identify reasons for the National Institutes of Health's increased emphasis on translational research.Recognize how community-engaged research fits into the National Institutes of Health's translational research initiative.Identify the historic roots and philosophical basis of community-engaged research.List the differences between a traditional research approach and a community-engaged approach, which includes community-based participatory research.Describe elements of community-based participatory research.Explain how community-engaged research exists on a continuum.Describe examples of how research projects could incorporate some principles of community-engaged research at different steps of the research process.Describe how the role of the researcher differs in community-engaged research compared to traditional research.Identify and describe the principles of community-engaged research.Describe how research can benefit from collaboration between researchers and community partners.Describe how research can become more complex and unpredictable when researchers collaborate with community partners.Identify challenges in the evaluation of community-engaged research.Discuss academic beliefs about conducting research that make community-engaged research appear less rigorous and less valuable than other research. Sign up for the latest publications from MedEdPORTAL Add your email below FILES INCLUDEDReferencesRelatedDetails FILES INCLUDED Included in this publication: Practicing Community Engaged Research Final.ppt Instructor's Guide.doc To view all publication components, extract (i.e., unzip) them from the downloaded .zip file. Download editor’s noteThis publication may contain technology or a display format that is no longer in use. CitationMcDonald MA. Practicing Community-Engaged Research. MedEdPORTAL. 2008;4:1127. https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.1127 Copyright & Permissions© 2008 McDonald. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives license.KeywordsResidence CharacteristicsCBPRCooperative Behavior Disclosures None to report. Funding/Support This research was supported by a National Institutes of Health Clinical Translational Science Award and the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. Ethical Approval Duke University Medical Center Institutional Review Board approved this study. Loading ...