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      Participating in a community-based participatory research module: A reflective inquiry

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          This commentary piece, using a narrative inquiry frame, explores the experiences of five individuals who came together to participate in a community-based participatory research (CBPR) module. Owing to the short time frame of this accredited module, when the module was live, a particular focus was directed towards dialogical techniques to build trust and respect within the group and subsequently generate potential research questions. The inaugural experience of collaborating on a CBPR module stimulated unique feelings, reflections and learnings for participants, many of which took time to surface. This article aims to make sense of those experiences to support those wishing to engage in CBPR initiatives.

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            Review of community-based research: assessing partnership approaches to improve public health.

            Community-based research in public health focuses on social, structural, and physical environmental inequities through active involvement of community members, organizational representatives, and researchers in all aspects of the research process. Partners contribute their expertise to enhance understanding of a given phenomenon and to integrate the knowledge gained with action to benefit the community involved. This review provides a synthesis of key principles of community-based research, examines its place within the context of different scientific paradigms, discusses rationales for its use, and explores major challenges and facilitating factors and their implications for conducting effective community-based research aimed at improving the public's health.
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              A realist evaluation of community-based participatory research: partnership synergy, trust building and related ripple effects

              Background Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is an approach in which researchers and community stakeholders form equitable partnerships to tackle issues related to community health improvement and knowledge production. Our 2012 realist review of CBPR outcomes reported long-term effects that were touched upon but not fully explained in the retained literature. To further explore such effects, interviews were conducted with academic and community partners of partnerships retained in the review. Realist methodology was used to increase the understanding of what supports partnership synergy in successful long-term CBPR partnerships, and to further document how equitable partnerships can result in numerous benefits including the sustainability of relationships, research and solutions. Methods Building on our previous realist review of CBPR, we contacted the authors of longitudinal studies of academic-community partnerships retained in the review. Twenty-four participants (community members and researchers) from 11 partnerships were interviewed. Realist logic of analysis was used, involving middle-range theory, context-mechanism-outcome configuration (CMOcs) and the concept of the ‘ripple effect’. Results The analysis supports the central importance of developing and strengthening partnership synergy through trust. The ripple effect concept in conjunction with CMOcs showed that a sense of trust amongst CBPR members was a prominent mechanism leading to partnership sustainability. This in turn resulted in population-level outcomes including: (a) sustaining collaborative efforts toward health improvement; (b) generating spin-off projects; and (c) achieving systemic transformations. Conclusion These results add to other studies on improving the science of CBPR in partnerships with a high level of power-sharing and co-governance. Our results suggest sustaining CBPR and achieving unanticipated benefits likely depend on trust-related mechanisms and a continuing commitment to power-sharing. These findings have implications for building successful CBPR partnerships to address challenging public health problems and the complex assessment of outcomes. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12889-015-1949-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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                Journal
                rfa
                rfa
                Research for All
                RFA
                UCL Press (UK )
                2399-8121
                22 September 2020
                : 4
                : 2
                : 276-290
                Affiliations
                [1]University College Cork, Ireland
                [2]Westgate Foundation, County Cork, Ireland
                Author notes
                Corresponding author: Email: ruth.hally@ 123456ucc.ie
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2144-6437
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0934-8682
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2902-8624
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4751-7667
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2285-9097
                Article
                10.14324/RFA.04.2.10
                36d24e0a-592d-483e-9164-15957c1b40da
                Copyright © 2020 Hally, Murphy, O’Connell, Robinson, Pyrz, Burns and O’Mahony

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 12 February 2019
                : 19 May 2020
                Page count
                References: 19, Pages: 16

                Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Education & Public policy,Educational research & Statistics
                knowledge democracy,narrative inquiry,reflection,community-based participatory research,trust building

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