Partnerships to address obesity disparities in Hawai'i: the PILI 'Ohana Project.
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to scientific research that is gaining broader application to address persistent problems in health care disparities and other hypothesis-driven research. However, information on how to form CBPR community-academic partnerships and how to best involve community partners in scientific research is not well-defined. The purpose of this paper is to share the experience of the Partnership for Improving Lifestyle Interventions (PILl) 'Ohana Project in forming a co-equal CBPR community-academic partnership that involved 5 different community partners in a scientific research study to address obesity disparities in Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Peoples (i.e., Samoans, Chuukese, and Filipinos). Specifically, the paper discusses (1) the formation of our community-academic partnership including identification of the research topic; (2) the development of the CBPR infrastructure to foster a sustainable co-equal research environment; and (3) the collaboration in designing a community-based and community-led intervention. The paper concludes with a brief summary of the authors' thoughts about CBPR partnerships from both the academic and community perspectives.
Department of Native Hawaiian Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i at Mãnoa, Honolulu, HI, USA. nacapoy@hawaii.edu
Andrea H
AH
Nacapoy
Joseph Keawe'aimoku
JK
Kaholokula
Margaret R
MR
West
Adrienne Y
AY
Dillard
Anne
A
Leake
B Puni
BP
Kekauoha
Donna-Marie
DM
Palakiko
Andrea
A
Siu
Sean W
SW
Mosier
K Mau
KM
Marjorie
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