Practicing Community-Engaged Research

Abstract

Abstract This resource is a slide-based desktop tutorial presenting an overview of community-engaged research, which is an important approach to health research as part of the new Translational Research Initiative of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The tutorial comprises four sections, each with separate learning objectives. This resource provides background on the NIH's increased emphasis on translational research and provides the history and development of community-engaged research. The module describes how community-engaged research differs from traditional research, the guiding principles of the community engagement approach, and how this approach can be incorporated into the basic steps of the research process. It also identifies some of the challenges and rewards that researchers may encounter when using a community-engaged research approach. This professionally produced presentation includes illustrations and tables, as well as explanatory text accompanying each of the 42 slides. An evaluation of the tutorial showed that 74% of 318 users rated it “Outstanding” or “Above Average” for presentation and content.

Keywords

• Cooperative Behavior
• Residence Characteristics
• CBPR