Community-based participatory research principles for the African American community.
BACKGROUND
Numerous sets of principles have been developed to guide the conduct of community-based participatory research (CBPR). However, they tend to be written in language that is most appropriate for academics and other research professionals; they may not help lay people from the community understand CBPR.


METHODS
Many community members of the National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer assisting with the Educational Program to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening (EPICS) had little understanding of CBPR. We engaged community members in developing culturally-specific principles for conducting academic-community collaborative research.


RESULTS
We developed a set of CBPR principles intended to resonate with African-American community members.


CONCLUSIONS
Applying NBLIC-developed CBPR principles contributed to developing and implementing an intervention to increase colorectal cancer screening among African Americans.
Institute of Public and Preventive Health, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA.
Selina A
SA
Smith
SISTAAH Talk Breast Cancer Support Group, Miami, Florida.
Mary S
MS
Whitehead
Department of Health Science and Sustainability, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts.
Joyce Q
JQ
Sheats
Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
Benjamin E
BE
Ansa
Steven S
SS
Coughlin
Daniel S
DS
Blumenthal
African American; cancer; community-based participatory research; principles