Community-Based Participatory Research Conceptual Model: Community Partner Consultation and Face Validity

Overview

Journal Qual Health Res

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty Health Services

Date 2014 Nov 2

PMID 25361792

Citations 97

Authors

Lorenda Belone

Julie E Lucero

Bonnie Duran

Greg Tafoya

Elizabeth A Baker

Domin Chan

Charlotte Chang

Ella Greene-Moton

Michele A Kelley

Nina Wallerstein

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Abstract

A national community-based participatory research (CBPR) team developed a conceptual model of CBPR partnerships to understand the contribution of partnership processes to improved community capacity and health outcomes. With the model primarily developed through academic literature and expert consensus building, we sought community input to assess face validity and acceptability. Our research team conducted semi-structured focus groups with six partnerships nationwide. Participants validated and expanded on existing model constructs and identified new constructs based on "real-world" praxis, resulting in a revised model. Four cross-cutting constructs were identified: trust development, capacity, mutual learning, and power dynamics. By empirically testing the model, we found community face validity and capacity to adapt the model to diverse contexts. We recommend partnerships use and adapt the CBPR model and its constructs, for collective reflection and evaluation, to enhance their partnering practices and achieve their health and research goals.

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