Division of Health Equities, Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, United States.
Department of Health Sciences, Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States.
Front Public Health. 2024 Aug 5;12:1394069. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1394069. eCollection 2024.
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an effective methodology for translating research findings from academia to community interventions. The Bench to Community Initiative (BCI), a CBPR program, builds on prior research to engage stakeholders across multiple disciplines with the goal of disseminating interventions to reduce breast cancer disparities and improve quality of life of Black communities.
The BCI program was established to understand sociocultural determinants of personal care product use, evaluate the biological impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals, and develop community interventions. The three pillars of the program include research, outreach and engagement as well as advocacy activities. The research pillar of the BCI includes development of multidisciplinary partnerships to understand the sociocultural and biological determinants of harmful chemical (e.g., endocrine disrupting chemicals) exposures from personal care products and to implement community interventions. The outreach and engagement pillar includes education and translation of research into behavioral practice. The research conducted through the initiative provides the foundation for advocacy engagement with applicable community-based organizations. Essential to the mission of the BCI is the participation of community members and trainees from underrepresented backgrounds who are affected by breast cancer disparities.
Two behavioral interventions will be developed building on prior research on environmental exposures with the focus on personal care products including findings from the BCI. In person and virtual education activities include tabling at community events with do-it-yourself product demonstrations, -a virtual platform used to bring awareness, education, and pilot behavior change interventions, biennial symposiums, and social media engagement. BCI's community advisory board members support activities across the three pillars, while trainees participate in personal and professional activities that enhance their skills in research translation.
This paper highlights the three pillars of the BCI, lessons learned, testimonies from community advisory board members and trainees on the impact of the initiative, as well as BCI's mission driven approaches to achieving health equity.
基于社区的参与式研究（CBPR）是将研究发现从学术界转化为社区干预措施的有效方法。Bench to Community Initiative（BCI）是一个 CBPR 项目，它建立在先前的研究基础上，让多个学科的利益相关者参与其中，旨在传播干预措施，以减少乳腺癌的差异，并提高黑人社区的生活质量。
BCI 项目旨在了解个人护理产品使用的社会文化决定因素，评估内分泌干扰化学物质的生物学影响，并开发社区干预措施。该计划的三个支柱包括研究、外展和参与以及宣传活动。BCI 的研究支柱包括发展多学科伙伴关系，以了解个人护理产品中有害化学物质（如内分泌干扰化学物质）暴露的社会文化和生物学决定因素，并实施社区干预措施。外展和参与支柱包括教育和将研究转化为行为实践。通过该倡议进行的研究为与适用的社区组织进行倡导参与提供了基础。BCI 的使命的核心是受乳腺癌差异影响的社区成员和代表性不足背景的学员的参与。
将根据先前关于环境暴露的研究，包括 BCI 的研究结果，制定两项行为干预措施。面对面和虚拟教育活动包括在社区活动中设置展位，进行 DIY 产品演示，以及使用虚拟平台来提高认识、教育和试点行为改变干预措施、两年一次的研讨会和社交媒体参与度。BCI 的社区咨询委员会成员支持三个支柱的活动，而学员则参与个人和专业活动，以提高他们在研究翻译方面的技能。
本文重点介绍了 BCI 的三个支柱、从社区咨询委员会成员和学员那里获得的关于该倡议的影响的经验教训，以及 BCI 实现健康公平的使命驱动方法。
