title: Collaborative measurement development as a tool in CBPR: measurement development and adaptation within the cultures of communities.
abstract: This paper describes the processes we engaged into develop a measurement protocol used to assess the outcomes in a community based suicide and alcohol abuse prevention project with two Alaska Native communities. While the literature on community-based participatory research (CBPR) is substantial regarding the importance of collaborations, few studies have reported on this collaboration in the process of developing measures to assess CBPR projects. We first tell a story of the processes around the standard issues of doing cross-cultural work on measurement development related to areas of equivalence. A second story is provided that highlights how community differences within the same cultural group can affect both the process and content of culturally relevant measurement selection, adaptation, and development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bemidji State University, 1500 Birchmont Dr NE #23, Bemidji, MN, 56601, USA, jgonzalez@bemidjistate.edu.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
authors.forename: Edison J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Trickett
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000413:Alaska; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D054521:Cultural Competency; D006801:Humans; D004930:Inuit / Q000208:ethnology*; D007802:Language; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D013405:Suicide / Q000208:ethnology; D014177:Translations; D055815:Young Adult; D000092864:Suicide Prevention
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