Hacker Karen, Tendulkar Shalini A, Rideout Catlin, Bhuiya Nazmim, Trinh-Shevrin Chau, Savage Clara P, Grullon Milagro, Strelnick Hal, Leung Carolyn, DiGirolamo Ann
Institute for Community Health, Cambridge Health Alliance, USA.
Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2012 Fall;6(3):349-60. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2012.0048.
For communities, the value of community-based participatory research (CBPR) is often manifested in the outcomes of increased capacity and sustainable adoption of evidence-based practices for social change. Educational opportunities that promote discourse between community and academic partners can help to advance CBPR and better define these outcomes.
This paper describes a community-academic conference to develop shared definitions of community capacity building and sustainability related to CBPR and to identify obstacles and facilitators to both.
"Taking It to the Curbside: Engaging Communities to Create Sustainable Change for Health" was planned by five Clinical Translational Science Institutes and four community organizations. After a keynote presentation, breakout groups of community and academic members met to define community capacity building and sustainability, and to identify facilitators and barriers to achieving both. Groups were facilitated by researcher-community partner teams and conversations were recorded and transcribed. Qualitative analysis for thematic content was conducted by a subset of the planning committee.
Important findings included learning that (1) the concepts of capacity and sustainability were considered interconnected; (2) partnership was perceived as both a facilitator and an outcome of CBPR; (3) sustainability was linked to "transfer of knowledge" from one generation to another within a community; and (4) capacity and sustainability were enhanced when goals were shared and health outcomes were achieved.
Community capacity building and sustainability are key outcomes of CBPR for communities. Co-learning opportunities that engage and mutually educate both community members and academics can be useful strategies for identifying meaningful strategies to achieve these outcomes.
对于社区而言，基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）的价值通常体现在能力提升以及社会变革的循证实践得以可持续采用的成果上。促进社区与学术伙伴之间对话的教育机会有助于推动CBPR并更好地界定这些成果。
本文描述了一次社区与学术会议，旨在就与CBPR相关的社区能力建设和可持续性制定共同定义，并确定两者的障碍和促进因素。
“带到路边：让社区参与创造健康的可持续变革”会议由五个临床转化科学研究所和四个社区组织共同策划。主旨演讲后，社区成员和学术成员分组讨论，以界定社区能力建设和可持续性，并确定实现这两者的促进因素和障碍。各小组由研究人员 - 社区伙伴团队提供指导，对话进行了录音和转录。规划委员会的一个小组对主题内容进行了定性分析。
重要发现包括：（1）能力和可持续性的概念被认为是相互关联的；（2）伙伴关系被视为CBPR的促进因素和成果；（3）可持续性与社区内知识从一代到另一代的“传承”相关联；（4）当目标共享且实现健康成果时，能力和可持续性会得到增强。
社区能力建设和可持续性是CBPR对社区的关键成果。让社区成员和学者共同参与并相互学习的机会，可能是确定实现这些成果的有意义策略的有用方法。
