title: Practical suggestions for community interventions using participatory action research.
abstract: Advanced practice nurses and nurse researchers with experience in clinical settings may encounter challenges in the initial development and implementation of community-based projects. Participatory action research methodology, a user-friendly framework for community-based research activities, provides a way for researchers and community members to work together to define a problem, take action, and evaluate their work. This article attempts to bridge the theory-implementation gap by describing background steps that researchers can use when conceptualizing and initiating a research project with community partners. Suggestions for initial steps and the planning and review cycles are presented, along with examples from the literature.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing/Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA. kellypj@umkc.edu
authors.forename: Patricia J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Kelly
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D012107:Research Design