title: Improving Rigor in a Door-to-Door Health Survey: A Participatory Approach in a Low-Income Latino Neighborhood.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Engaging community partners in research has the potential to make findings higher quality, more actionable, and more meaningful. Less rigorous approaches, often used by community-engaged partnerships, may diminish data quality.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study highlights the key guiding principles of a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, particularly in regards to improving rigor, for a door-to-door health survey conducted by promotoras in a low-income, Latino neighborhood in San Jose, California.
  
  
  METHODS
  We describe the partnership formed to conduct the study and the participatory process used throughout the study in questionnaire and sample design, training, and survey administration that adheres to key CBPR principles.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our participatory approach required building the capacity of partners, having all partners weigh in on issues that arose in the field, enlisting outside expertise, being responsive to partner concerns while adhering to validated survey methods, simplifying sample design, incorporating expectations for data quality into training, and dedicating sufficient staffing to survey administration.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The procedures, materials, and tools used by the community-engaged partnership in this study can be replicated by other community partnerships seeking to improve the quality of data used for decision making, program planning, and resource allocation.
authors.forename: Whitney
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Webber
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stoddard
authors.forename: Maritza
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rodriguez
authors.forename: Pam
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gudiño
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chagoya
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jauregui
authors.forename: Roshni
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Analilia P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Garcia
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002140:California; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D054521:Cultural Competency; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult