Practice-based Research is Community Engagement

Practice-based research is community engagement.

Community engagement has become a major contributor to medical research during the past 10 years and is an essential component of the current National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap and the Clinical and Translational Science Awards program. But, what is a community? And what community gets to be engaged? Kerr White described one of the major problems with clinical research in the United Sta...

Facilitating Community Participants’ Research Engagement: Community Members’ Perceptions of Community-based Research

OBJECTIVES To describe the perspectives of community participants about engaging in community-based participatory research, and then to use the information to develop a model to depict the community participants' perceptions of interfacing with academic researchers. METHOD A diverse group of Native Hawaiian community-dwelling participants engaged in open-ended and semi-structured focus group ...

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e-Research Infrastructure Development and Community Engagement

The UK and wider international e-Research initiatives are entering a critical phase in which they need to move from the development of the basic underlying technology, demonstrators, prototypes and early applications to wider adoption and the development of stable infrastructures. In this paper we will review existing work on studies of infrastructure and community development, requirements eli...

Community engagement research and dual diagnosis anonymous.

Community engagement research is widely discussed but rarely implemented. This article describes the implementation of a community engagement research project on Dual Diagnosis Anonymous, a rapidly spreading peer support program in Oregon for people with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. After three years of discussions, overcoming barriers, and involving several institut...