title: Academic partnerships and key leaders emerging from communities in the lower Mississippi Delta (LMD): a community-based participatory research model.
abstract: Collaboratively, the nutritional health problems of the Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD) region were examined and opportunities identified for conducting research interventions. To combat the nutritional health problems in the LMD, community residents yielded to a more comprehensive and participatory approach known as community-based participatory research (CBPR). Community residents partnered with academic researchers and other organizational entities to improve the overall quality of diet and health in their respective communities using CBPR. The collaborative work in the LMD focused on interventions conducted in each of three specific communities across three states: Marvell, Arkansas (Marvell NIRI), and its surrounding public school district; Franklin Parish in Louisiana (Franklin NIRI); and the city of Hollandale, Mississippi (Hollandale NIRI). This paper examined some of the research interventions conducted in Franklin, Hollandale, and Marvell NIRI respectively, how leadership emerged from each of these communities, and lessons learned as a result of the CBPR model.
authors.affiliation: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA. Betty.Kennedy@pbrc.edu
authors.forename: Betty M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Kennedy
authors.forename: T Elaine
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Prewitt
authors.forename: Beverly
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: McCabe-Sellers
authors.forename: Earline
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Strickland
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yadrick
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Threadgill
authors.forename: Catherine M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Champagne
authors.forename: Bernestine B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: McGee
authors.forename: Margaret L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Bogle
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001131:Arkansas; D002648:Child; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008145:Louisiana; D008922:Mississippi; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*