El Ansari W
Postgraduate Programme in Public Health, School of Health and Social Care, Oxford Brookes University, Jack Straws Lane, Martson Road, Oxford OX3 0FL, UK.
Public Health. 2005 Sep;119(9):758-70. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2005.01.014.
Community/campus research collaborations face multiple challenges. An understanding of the community's background, history, habits and traditions, values and mode of operations is required. This article narrates a 3-year experience of undertaking collaborative public health research with five disadvantaged communities in various provinces of South Africa. Based on the experience, five main challenges exist: the value systems of those collaborating in the research; the stakeholders' costs and benefits of being involved; issues of empowerment and capacity transfer; the need for multidisciplinary research approaches; and the prerequisite of the clarity of relationships and roles between researcher and community. Categorized under the five main challenges are examples of 19 interlacing 'concepts' that detailed the South African research partnership from the perspective of the processes, dealings and daily difficulties. Examples of the challenges and concepts are highlighted from the author's research experiences with disadvantaged communities. These challenges increase exponentially with the inclusion of more research sites, more stakeholders or when undertaking cluster research. Possible preventative measures or solutions to the problems are suggested. Both the 'town' and 'gown' partners are required to attend to a multitude of factors when embarking on collaborative community-based research.
社区/校园研究合作面临多重挑战。需要了解社区的背景、历史、习惯与传统、价值观及运作模式。本文讲述了与南非各省五个弱势社区开展公共卫生合作研究的三年经历。基于该经历，存在五个主要挑战：研究合作方的价值体系；利益相关者参与的成本与收益；赋权及能力转移问题；多学科研究方法的需求；以及研究者与社区之间关系和角色清晰明确的前提条件。在这五个主要挑战之下分类列出了19个相互交织的“概念”示例，这些示例从过程、交往及日常困难的角度详细阐述了南非的研究伙伴关系。文中从作者与弱势社区的研究经历中突出了挑战及概念的示例。随着纳入更多研究地点、更多利益相关者或开展整群研究，这些挑战会成倍增加。文中还提出了针对这些问题可能的预防措施或解决方案。“城镇”和“高校”伙伴在开展基于社区的合作研究时都需要考虑诸多因素。
