call for papers: CBPR focus on children and adolescents in Family & Community Health

[Announcement from SCRA-L]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Family & Community Health

38.1 COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH: FOCUS ON CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Due to Issue Editor: April 1, 2014

Dear CBPR and Community-Engaged Research Colleagues,

Family & Community Health (FCH) is soliciting manuscripts for an issue on community-based participatory research focused on children and adolescents.

Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) is a collaborative approach to research that equitably involves both community members and academicians as partners contributing unique strengths to the research process.^1-3 In contrast to more traditional research, projects using a CBPR approach rely on input and collaboration from community members at many steps of the research process, from defining the research topic to disseminating the results.³ Barbara Israel and colleagues outline five phases of CBPR²:  1) partnership formation and maintenance; 2) community assessment and diagnosis; 3) definition of the issue; 4) documentation and evaluation of the partnership process; and 5) feedback, interpretation, dissemination, and application of results (p.13). CBPR aims to combine knowledge and action for change to improve community health and eliminate health disparities.⁴ Various research methods are used within a CBPR framework; however, CBPR projects can be distinguished by the value placed on cooperative research efforts that engage community members and researchers and in the relevance of the research for communities.²

The purpose of this issue of FCH is to highlight family and community health-related CBPR projects focused specifically on youth as partners in the research process. Manuscripts submitted to this issue may highlight one, several, or all of the phases of CBPR. Manuscripts from academic and community collaborators, especially those partnering with youth, are encouraged.

References

1.             Brydon-Miller M, Greenwood D, Maguire P. Why Action Research? Action Research. July 1, 2003 2003;1(1):9-28.

2.             Israel BA, Parker EA, Rowe Z, et al. Community-based participatory research: lessons learned from the centers for children's environmental health and disease prevention research. Environ Health Perspect. Oct 2005;113(10):1463-1471.

3.             Minkler M, Wallerstein N. Community-based participatory research for health : from process to outcomes. 2nd ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass; 2008.

4.             Viswanathan M, Ammerman A, Eng E, et al. Community-based participatory research: Assessing the evidence. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 99 (Publication 04-E022-2). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality;2004.

Family & Community Health (FCH) is an inter-professional journal that provides a forum to discuss family and community health care, health promotion and maintenance, innovations, and evidence based approaches in health care. A particular emphasis is given to how individuals, groups, and populations can effectively promote and maintain health. Issues contain articles from health care educators, researchers, and practitioners.

Manuscripts are due no later than April 1, 2014 and should be submitted via the online manuscript submission system directly to the 38.1 issue on CBPR. References must be cited in text and styled in the reference list according to the American Medical Association Manual of Style, ed. 10, Copyright 2009, AMA. Please consult the journal’s website for more detailed information about manuscript submission:  http://journals.lww.com/familyandcommunityhealth/pages/default.aspx

Best Regards,

FCH 38.1 Issue Editor, Lisa M. Vaughn, PhD