title: Parents, practitioners, and researchers: community-based participatory research with early head start.
abstract: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to research and evaluation that is receiving increased attention in the field of public health. Our report discusses the application of this approach to research and evaluation with an Early Head Start (EHS) program in Pittsburgh, Pa. Our primary purpose is to illustrate the key elements that contributed to effective collaboration among researchers, EHS practitioners, and parents of EHS children in the conduct of the study. The focus is not on research findings but on research process. Our goal is to make the practices of CBPR visible and explicit so they can be analyzed, further developed, and effectively applied to a range of public health issues in a diversity of community contexts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. allister@pitt.edu
authors.forename: Carol L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: McAllister
authors.forename: Beth L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: Martha Ann
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Terry
authors.forename: Vivian
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Herman
authors.forename: Laurie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mulvey
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003256:Community Participation; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D018479:Early Intervention, Educational / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005006:Ethnicity; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D010414:Pennsylvania; D015397:Program Evaluation; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations