Bringing Community and Academic Scholars Together to Facilitate and Conduct Authentic Community Based Participatory Research: Project UNITED

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dc.contributor.authorLewis, Dwight, Jr.
dc.contributor.authorYerby, Lea
dc.contributor.authorTucker, Melanie
dc.contributor.authorFoster, Pamela Payne
dc.contributor.authorHamilton, Kara C.
dc.contributor.authorFifolt, Matthew M.
dc.contributor.authorHites, Lisle
dc.contributor.authorShreves, Mary Katherine
dc.contributor.authorPage, Susan B.
dc.contributor.authorBissell, Kimberly L.
dc.contributor.authorLucky, Felecia L.
dc.contributor.authorHigginbotham, John C.
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Birmingham
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-28T19:35:41Z
dc.date.available2023-09-28T19:35:41Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractCultural competency, trust, and research literacy can affect the planning and implementation of sustainable community-based participatory research (CBPR). The purpose of this manuscript is to highlight: (1) the development of a CBPR pilot grant request for application; and (2) a comprehensive program supporting CBPR obesity-related grant proposals facilitated by activities designed to promote scholarly collaborations between academic researchers and the community. After a competitive application process, academic researchers and non-academic community leaders were selected to participate in activities where the final culminating project was the submission of a collaborative obesity-related CBPR grant application. Teams were comprised of a mix of academic researchers and non-academic community leaders, and each team submitted an application addressing obesity-disparities among rural predominantly African American communities in the US Deep South. Among four collaborative teams, three (75%) successfully submitted a grant application to fund an intervention addressing rural and minority obesity disparities. Among the three submitted grant applications, one was successfully funded by an internal CBPR grant, and another was funded by an institutional seed funding grant. Preliminary findings suggest that the collaborative activities were successful in developing productive scholarly relationships between researchers and community leaders. Future research will seek to understand the full-context of our findings.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationLewis, D., Yerby, L., Tucker, M., Foster, P., Hamilton, K., Fifolt, M., Hites, L., Shreves, M., Page, S., Bissell, K., Lucky, F., & Higginbotham, J. (2015). Bringing Community and Academic Scholars Together to Facilitate and Conduct Authentic Community Based Participatory Research: Project UNITED. In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Vol. 13, Issue 1, p. 35). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13010035
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijerph13010035
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-3233
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/11508
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectcommunity based
dc.subjectparticipatory
dc.subjectcollaboration
dc.subjectcultural competency
dc.subjectgrantsmanship
dc.subjectresearch literacy
dc.subjectrural
dc.subjectobesity
dc.subjectSCIENTIFIC STATEMENT
dc.subjectOBESITY
dc.subjectHEALTH
dc.subjectPREVALENCE
dc.subjectADULTS
dc.subjectUS
dc.subjectCHALLENGES
dc.subjectLEVEL
dc.subjectEnvironmental Sciences
dc.subjectPublic, Environmental & Occupational Health
dc.titleBringing Community and Academic Scholars Together to Facilitate and Conduct Authentic Community Based Participatory Research: Project UNITEDen_US
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