Wang Karen H, Ray Natasha J, Berg David N, Greene Ann T, Lucas Georgina, Harris Kenn, Carroll-Scott Amy, Tinney Barbara, Rosenthal Marjorie S
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
Department of Medicine, Equity Research and Innovation Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
Prev Med Rep. 2017 Jun 21;7:180-186. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.06.007. eCollection 2017 Sep.
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 university-based researchers. We interviewed participants until we reached thematic saturation and performed analyses using the constant comparative method. Unifying themes characterizing community leaders and university-based researchers' relationships on the inter-organizational level include: 1) Both groups described that community-engaged university-based researchers are exceptions to typical university culture; 2) Both groups described that the interpersonal skills university-based researchers need for CEnR require a change in organizational culture and training; 3) Both groups described skepticism about the sustainability of a meaningful institutional commitment to community-engaged research 4) Both groups described the historical impact on research relationships of race, power, and privilege, but only community leaders described its persistent role and relevance in research relationships. Challenges to community-academic research partnerships include researcher interpersonal skills and different perceptions of the importance of organizational history. Solutions to improve research partnerships may include transforming university culture and community-university discussions on race, power, and privilege.
在社区参与研究（CEnR）中，为减少健康不平等现象，维持社区组织领导者与学术研究人员之间的合作需要从组织间的角度理解这种合作。我们评估了在一个存在社区与大学关系紧张历史的中等规模城市中开展社区参与研究的社区领导者和大学研究人员的观点。我们的研究团队包括社区参与研究和组织理论方面的专家，采用定性方法和有目的的滚雪球抽样来招募当地参与者，并在2011年7月至2012年5月期间进行了关键信息访谈。一位社区研究人员采访了11位社区领导者，一位大学研究人员采访了12位大学研究人员。我们持续访谈参与者直至达到主题饱和，并使用持续比较法进行分析。在组织间层面上，表征社区领导者与大学研究人员关系的统一主题包括：1）两组人员都表示，参与社区研究的大学研究人员是典型大学文化中的例外；2）两组人员都表示，大学研究人员开展社区参与研究所需的人际交往技能需要组织文化和培训的变革；3）两组人员都对社区参与研究中机构有意义的承诺的可持续性表示怀疑；4）两组人员都描述了种族、权力和特权对研究关系的历史影响，但只有社区领导者描述了其在研究关系中持续存在的作用和相关性。社区 - 学术研究伙伴关系面临的挑战包括研究人员的人际交往技能以及对组织历史重要性的不同看法。改善研究伙伴关系的解决方案可能包括转变大学文化以及社区与大学之间关于种族、权力和特权的讨论。
