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.
Nacapoy
Andrea H
AH
Department of Native Hawaiian Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i at Mãnoa, Honolulu, HI, USA. nacapoy@hawaii.edu
Kaholokula
Joseph Keawe'aimoku
JK
West
Margaret R
MR
Dillard
Adrienne Y
AY
Leake
Anne
A
Kekauoha
B Puni
BP
Palakiko
Donna-Marie
DM
Siu
Andrea
A
Mosier
Sean W
SW
Marjorie
K Mau
KM
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