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December 12, 2008
Retreat Refreshes Behavioral, Social Sciences
Dr. Christine Bachrach
Dr. Christine Bachrach, acting director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, wanted just one thing out of the first-ever day-long retreat for NIH’s widely dispersed community of behavioral and social scientists, held Nov. 12 at Natcher Bldg.
December 12, 2008
CBT4CBT
New Hope for Treatment of Addiction
Dr. Kathleen Carroll
Drug addiction is notoriously tough to treat, but now research is showing a fresh way to tackle the problem. It’s called computer-based training for cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT4CBT)
OBSSR’s Mabry Wins with Systems Analysis Team
OBSSR’s Mabry Wins with Systems Analysis Team
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January 28-29, 2009 Dissemination and Implementation Conference
February 9, 2009, 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Stigma: Lessons & New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness
July 12-24, 2009
OBSSR/NIH Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions
May 3-8, 2009
Institute on Systems Science and Health
May 22-25, 2009
Gene-Environment Interplay in Stress and Health at the Association for Psychological Science 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA
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Home > Scientific Areas > Methodology > Community Based Participatory Research
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Community Based Participatory Research |
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is an applied collaborative approach that enables community residents to more actively participate in the full spectrum of research with a goal of influencing change in community health, systems, programs or policies. Researchers partner with the community to develop models and approaches to building communication, trust and capacity, with the final goal of increasing community participation in the research process. CBPR is not a method or set of methods, but rather an orientation to research which equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings.
Advantages of CBPR include:
- Joining partners with diverse expertise to address complex public health problems
- Improving intervention design and implementation by facilitating participant recruitment and retention
- The potential to translate research findings to guide the development of further interventions and policy change
- Benefitting the community and researchers alike through the knowledge gained and actions taken
- Increasing trust and bridging cultural gaps between partners
- Providing resources for the communities involved
- Increasing the quality and validity of research
- Enhancing the relevance and use of data
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) remains supportive of this collaborative approach to research releasing more than twenty three Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) on CBPR from 2000 to 2008. These FOAs have been funded by NIH Institutes/Centers such as NCI, NCMHD, NCRR, NHLBI, NIAAA, NICHD, NIDA, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIDDK, NIEHS, NIMH, NINR, OBSSR, and ORWH.
Additionally, a CBPR scientific interest group (SIG) has been established at the NIH with the purpose of strengthening communication among federal agencies with an interest in supporting CBPR methodologies in the conduct of biomedical research, education, health care delivery, or policy. Complete information on the NIH CBPR SIG can be found at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/training/esaig/cbpr_sig.htm.
OBSSR’s CBPR activities
Recent OBSSR-initiated CBPR activities include the release of three FOAs in January 2008 as well as the organization and sponsorship of a corresponding technical assistance workshop in February 2008 offering guidance on CBPR and how to prepare a responsive application to the FOAs.
All three FOAs are presently active with varying application receipt dates. PA-08-074, Community Participation in Research (R01) uses the NIH standard receipt dates and therefore, accepts applications three times a year. PAR-08-075, Community Participation Research Targeting the Medically Underserved (R01) has specific application receipt dates in mid-May each year. PAR-08-076, Community Participation Research Targeting the Medically Underserved (R21) also has specific application receipt dates in mid-May each year. For further information regarding these FOAs, the OBSSR contact is Dana Sampson, Sampsond@od.nih.gov.
The corresponding CBPR technical assistance workshop, Leap into the Community, was organized by OBSSR’s Dana Sampson and occurred on February 29, 2008 on the NIH campus. A recording of the entire full-day workshop is permanently available on the NIH Videocast website at: http://videocast.nih.gov/ram/obssr022908.ram. A podcast is also permanently available at: http://videocast.nih.gov/podcast.asp?14325. All workshop materials, including featured PowerPoint presentations are provided on the CBPR SIG website at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/training/esaig/cbpr_workshop_20080229.htm.
How can you stay informed of CBPR-related funding opportunities at the NIH? There are several ways including:
- Search the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/.
- Subscribe to the NIH Guide listserv which will provide weekly listings of new research opportunities. Instructions on how to subscribe are available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/listserv.htm.
- Subscribe to the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) listserv. The CCPH was created by the University of Washington and is now being led by the Medical College of Wisconsin, Public and Community Health. The CCPH listserv serves as a resource for sharing knowledge and experience with the goal of contributing to strengthening the field of CBPR. To join the listserv, visit http://mailman.mcw.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbpr.
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