The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001, USA.
Public Health. 2018 Jun;159:58-62. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2018.01.023. Epub 2018 Mar 31.
The purpose of this short communication is to describe the trust building and collaboration, fostering phases of a community-academic partnership between churches and academic researchers using a community-based participatory research approach.
An academic-community partnership with church leaders was initiated using survey administration and was further developed using focus groups. A coalition was developed, and it guided a subsequent focus group with church members.
Most churches surveyed did not have a health ministry in place but were agreeable that a variety of health topics were appropriate for the church setting. Church leaders felt that church members were key to engage in health programs in the church, whereas church members viewed pastoral support as important. Church leaders felt that working with a university brings credibility to their own health programs.
This early work provides a valuable example of how community collaborations may be initiated and developed using formative research methods, serving both community and research agendas.
本短文旨在描述基于社区的参与式研究方法,利用教会与学术研究人员之间的社区学术伙伴关系,建立信任和合作,培养合作阶段。
利用调查管理,与教会领袖建立学术-社区伙伴关系,并利用焦点小组进一步发展。成立了一个联盟,并指导随后与教会成员进行的焦点小组讨论。
大多数接受调查的教会都没有设立健康事工部门,但他们同意各种健康主题都适合教会环境。教会领袖认为,教会成员是参与教会健康项目的关键,而教会成员则认为牧师的支持很重要。教会领袖认为,与大学合作可以为他们自己的健康项目带来信誉。
这项早期工作提供了一个有价值的例子,说明如何使用形成性研究方法启动和发展社区合作,同时满足社区和研究议程的需要。