title: Engaging youth in bullying prevention through community-based participatory research.
abstract: Few studies that engage youth in community-based participatory research (CBPR) focus on issues of safety/violence, include elementary school-aged youth, or quantitatively assess outcomes of the CBPR process. This article expands understanding of CBPR with youth by describing and evaluating the outcomes of a project that engaged fifth-grade students at 3 schools in bullying-focused CBPR. Results suggest that the project was associated with decreases in fear of bullying and increases in peer and teacher intervention to stop bullying. We conclude with implications for the engagement of elementary school-aged youth in CBPR to address bullying and other youth issues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio (Dr Gibson), and Department of Psychology, Center for School-Based Mental Health Programs, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (Dr Flaspohler and Ms Watts).
authors.forename: Jennifer E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Gibson
authors.forename: Paul D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Flaspohler
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Watts
mesh_terms: D058445:Bullying; D002648:Child; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012107:Research Design; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*