Journal article
Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Prevent HIV Disparities: Assumptions and Opportunities Identified by the Latino Partnership
JAIDS-JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES, Vol.63(1), pp.S32-S35
06/01/2013
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e3182920015
PMCID: PMC3715119
PMID: 23673883
Abstract
Background: HIV disproportionately affects vulnerable populations in the United States, including recently arrived immigrant Latinos. However, the current arsenal of effective approaches to increase adherence to risk-reduction strategies and treatment within Latino populations remains insufficient.
Methods: Our community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership blends multiple perspectives of community members, organizational representatives, local business leaders, and academic researchers to explore and intervene on HIV risk within Latino populations. We used CBPR to develop, implement, and evaluate 2 interventions that were found to be efficacious.
Results: We identified 7 assumptions of CBPR as an approach to research, including more authentic study designs, stronger measurement, and improved quality of knowledge gained; increased community capacity to tackle other health disparities; the need to focus on community priorities; increased participation and retention rates; more successful interventions; reduced generalizability; and increased sustainability.
Conclusions: Despite the advancement of CBPR as an approach to research, key assumptions remain. Further research is needed to compare CBPR with other more-traditional approaches to research. Such research would move us from assuming the value of CBPR to identifying its actual value in health disparity reduction. After all, communities carrying a disproportionate burden of HIV, including immigrant Latino communities, deserve the best science possible.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Prevent HIV Disparities: Assumptions and Opportunities Identified by the Latino Partnership
- Creators
- Scott D. Rhodes - Wake Forest UniversityStacy Duck - Chatham Social Hlth Council, Siler City, NC USAJorge Alonzo - Wake Forest UniversityJason Daniel-Ulloa - University of IowaRobert E. Aronson - Univ N Carolina, Dept Publ Hlth Educ, Greensboro, NC 27412 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- JAIDS-JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES, Vol.63(1), pp.S32-S35
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- DOI
- 10.1097/QAI.0b013e3182920015
- PMID
- 23673883
- PMCID
- PMC3715119
- ISSN
- 1525-4135
- eISSN
- 2331-6993
- Number of pages
- 4
- Grant note
- U01PS001570 / National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP); United States Department of Health & Human Services; Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - USA R21HD049282 / EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH &HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) R24MD002774 / National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities (NIMHD) R21MH079827 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) U01PS001570 / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; United States Department of Health & Human Services; Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - USA
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2013
- Academic Unit
- Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984363573602771
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