Editorial: Developments in Community Partnered Participatory Research for Behavioral Health

Introduction: partnered participatory research to build community capacity and address mental health disparities and disasters.

Foreword. Partnered participatory research to build community capacity and address mental health disparities and disaster.

Community-partnered participatory research (CPPR), established in the paradigm of community-based participatory research, represents a relatively recent innovation in the field of mental health services research. As part of a public health model, CPPR offers a potentially advantageous framework to address mental health needs in response to population-level emergencies and large-scale disasters....

The Healthy African American Families (HAAF) project: from community-based participatory research to community-partnered participatory research.

During the past two decades, there has been an increased use of community-based participatory research in public health activities, especially as part of efforts to understand health disparities affecting communities of color. This article describes the history and lessons learned of a long-standing community participatory project, Healthy African American Families (HAAF), in Los Angeles, Calif...

Community-Based Participatory Research Integrates Behavioral and Biological Research to Achieve Health Equity for Native Hawaiians

Native Hawaiians bear a disproportionate burden of type-2 diabetes and related complications compared to all other groups in Hawai'i (e.g., Whites, Japanese, Korean). Distrust in these communities is a significant barrier to participation in epigenetic research studies seeking to better understand disease processes. The purpose of this paper is to describe the community-based participatory rese...

Factors affecting community-based participatory research in Iran: a qualitative study on health sector stakeholders' view

Community-based participatory research is an important strategy to deal with public health challenges. However, the application of community-based participatory research in public health has encountered many challenges. This study was conducted to address academic perspective about the challenges and factors that are influencing on the community-based participatory research in Iran. A qualitati...