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. 2008 Sep;67(9):237-41.

Partnerships to address obesity disparities in Hawai'i: the PILI 'Ohana Project

Andrea H Nacapoy  1 , Joseph Keawe'aimoku Kaholokula, Margaret R West, Adrienne Y Dillard, Anne Leake, B Puni Kekauoha, Donna-Marie Palakiko, Andrea Siu, Sean W Mosier, K Mau Marjorie; PILI 'Ohana Project
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Partnerships to address obesity disparities in Hawai'i: the PILI 'Ohana Project

Andrea H Nacapoy et al. Hawaii Med J. 2008 Sep.

Abstract

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to scientific research that is gaining broader application to address persistent problems in health care disparities and other hypothesis-driven research. However, information on how to form CBPR community-academic partnerships and how to best involve community partners in scientific research is not well-defined. The purpose of this paper is to share the experience of the Partnership for Improving Lifestyle Interventions (PILl) 'Ohana Project in forming a co-equal CBPR community-academic partnership that involved 5 different community partners in a scientific research study to address obesity disparities in Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Peoples (i.e., Samoans, Chuukese, and Filipinos). Specifically, the paper discusses (1) the formation of our community-academic partnership including identification of the research topic; (2) the development of the CBPR infrastructure to foster a sustainable co-equal research environment; and (3) the collaboration in designing a community-based and community-led intervention. The paper concludes with a brief summary of the authors' thoughts about CBPR partnerships from both the academic and community perspectives.

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The PILI `Ohana Project's CBPR infrastructure including the community and academic investigators
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PILI `Ohana Project's Basic Research Design
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