Using community-based participatory research and organizational diagnosis to characterize relationships between community leaders and academic researchers.

ABSTRACT: Sustaining collaborations between community-based organization leaders and academic researchers in community-engaged research (CEnR) in the service of decreasing health inequities necessitates understanding the collaborations from an inter-organizational perspective. We assessed the perspectives of community leaders and university-based researchers conducting community-engaged research in a medium-sized city with a history of community-university tension. Our research team, included experts in CEnR and organizational theory, used qualitative methods and purposeful, snowball sampling to recruit local participants and performed key informant interviews from July 2011-May 2012. A community-based researcher interviewed 11 community leaders, a university-based researcher interviewed 12 universi

SUBMITTER: Wang KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5498288 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature