title: On Some Practical Considerations Regarding Community-Based Participatory Research for Addressing Cancer Health Disparities.
abstract: There is a consensus about the benefits of community-based participatory research and the important role it can play in reducing cancer health disparities. Although every community-based participatory research project is unique in many ways, several fundamental issues deserve consideration. We discuss issues concerning community representation, possible tensions within community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects, and staffing CBPR projects. Flexibility, open-mindedness, transparency, and above all, caring, are characteristics that best ensure successful and rewarding outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Mercer University, Macon, GA, 31207-0001, USA. Lian_be@mercer.edu.
authors.forename: Brad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lian
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA.
authors.forename: Connie L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Kohler
authors.affiliation: Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 30458, USA.
authors.forename: Levi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ross
mesh_terms: D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Cancer; Community; Community-based participatory research; Health disparities; Research; Rural