title: Translating community-based participatory research principles into practice.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Although academics are trained in research methods, few receive formal training in strategies for implementing equitable community engaged research. Academics and their community partners can benefit from such direction and assistance as they establish and maintain community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships. Research partners from the University of Pittsburgh, the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, and the House of Ruth Maryland, one of the nation's leading domestic violence centers serving Baltimore and the surrounding areas, joined together to design, implement, and evaluate a series of activities to increase local CPBR capacity.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article provides an overview of process and findings from two CBPR workshops jointly held for academic and community members and explores specific suggestions from the workshop participants about how to put the CBPR principles into practice to promote community engaged research to address intimate partner violence (IPV).
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-four academic and community partners with experience addressing IPV participated in the two workshops. Facilitators led discussions based on the core CPBR principles. Participants were asked to interpret those principles, identify actions that could help to put the principles into practice, and discuss challenges related to CBPR approaches for IPV research. Observational notes and transcripts of the discussions and workshop evaluations are summarized.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The CBPR principles were interpreted and revised through consensus into common language that reflected the group discussion of the core CBPR principles. Workshop participants provided a range of actions for putting the principles into practice and identified the need for sensitivity in relation to IPV research. A majority of participants felt that the workshop generated novel ideas about how they could use CPBR in their own work.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Translating CBPR principles into common, action-oriented language is a useful first step when building a new academic-community research partnership.
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences.
authors.forename: Jessica G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Burke
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hess
authors.forename: Kamden
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guizzetti
authors.forename: Ellyn
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Loy
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gielen
authors.forename: Maryanne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bailey
authors.forename: Adrienne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Walnoha
authors.forename: Genevieve
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barbee
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yonas
mesh_terms: D015142:Baltimore; D057191:Capacity Building; D003142:Communication; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018511:Systems Integration; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000458:organization & administration*