Community-partnered approaches to enhance chronic kidney disease awareness, prevention, and early intervention.
There is a need to increase community involvement in addressing the growing burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Community-partnered participatory research (CPPR) is a collaborative approach that equitably involves academic, community, and professional partners in research, and the development of shared goals and of interventional programs to attain these goals. We present a case study of the processes, strategies, and activities concerning the interface of World Kidney Day goals and community-academic partnerships using a CPPR model focused on CKD. We show that CPPR methods can be used to (1) bring together community and academic leaders around goal sharing and research agenda development, (2) convene a community/professional conference aimed at knowledge transfer and data collection among partners, and (3) develop workgroups from a diverse group of participants to collaborate in community partnered strategies to reduce the burden of CKD. Participants included health care professionals, patients, faith-based professionals, government employees and officials, academics, caregivers, and community members. Follow-up workgroups developed action plans to address shared concerns. Using CPPR practices and principles, we were able to incorporate World Kidney Day objectives with community-derived goals to develop a community-partnered infrastructure, shared objectives, and workgroups to reduce the burden of chronic kidney disease.
Vargas
Roberto B
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Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. RBVargas@mednet.ucla.edu
Jones
Loretta
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Terry
Chrystene
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Nicholas
Suzanne B
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Kopple
Joel
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Forge
Nell
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Griffin
Anne
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Louis
Margo
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Barba
Lilly
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Small
Linda
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Norris
Keith C
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D032921:Consensus; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004493:Education / Q000458:organization & administration; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D015141:Los Angeles; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011634:Public Health; D051436:Renal Insufficiency, Chronic / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy*