Increasing the relevance of research to underserved communities: Lessons learned from a retreat to engage community health workers with researchers

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 840-849

  Angier, Heather ^a   Wiggins, Noelle ^b   Gregg, Jessica ^a   Gold, Rachel ^c   Devoe, Jennifer ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Multnomah County Community Capacitation Center   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Community engagement; Community health workers; Health insurance; Health policy; Underserved

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878470926     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0086     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Horowitz CR, Robinson M, Seifer S. Community-based participatory research from the margin to the mainstream: are researchers prepared? Circulation. 2009 May 19;119(19):2633-42.
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. 2005 Oct;113(10):1463-71.
3. Minkler M, Blackwell AG, Thompson M, et al. Community-based participatory research: implications for public health funding. Am J Public Health. 2003 Aug;93(8):1210-3.
4. Bodenheimer T. The Oregon Health Plan-lessons for the nation. First of two parts. N Engl J Med. 1997 Aug 28;337(9):651-5.
5. Bodenheimer T. The Oregon Health Plan-lessons for the nation. Second of two parts. N Engl J Med. 1997 Sep 4;337(10):720-3.
6. Oberlander J, Marmor T, Jacobs L. Rationing medical care: rhetoric and reality in the Oregon Health Plan. CMAJ. 2001 May 29;164(11):1583-7.
7. Carlson MJ, DeVoe J, Wright BJ. Short-term impacts of coverage loss in a Medicaid population: early results from a prospective cohort study of the Oregon Health Plan. Ann Fam Med. 2006 Sep-Oct;4(5):391-8.
8. Wright BJ, Carlson MJ, Edlund T, et al. The impact of increased cost sharing on Medicaid enrollees. Health Aff (Millwood). 2005 Jul-Aug;24(4):1106-16.
9. Solotaroff R, DeVoe J, Wright BJ, et al. Medicaid programme changes and the chronically ill: early results from a prospective cohort study of the Oregon Health Plan. Chronic Illn. 2005 Sep;1(3):191-205.
10. Oregon Department of Human Services. OHP standard reservation list: final report, March-October 2008. Salem, OR: Oregon Department of Human Services, 2009. Available at: http://www.oregon.gov/oha/healthplan/data_pubs/reports/finalohpstdresv.pdf.
11. Wiggins N. Popular education for health promotion and community empowerment: a review of the literature. Health Promot Int. 2012 Sep;27(3):356-71. Epub 2011 Aug 11.
12. Abma TA. Patients as partners in a health research agenda setting: the feasibility of a particpatory methodology. Eval Health Prof. 2006 Dec;29(4):424-39.
13. Caron-Flinterman JF, Broerse JE, Teerling J, et al. Patients' priorities concerning health research: the case of asthma and COPD research in the Netherlands. Health Expect. 2005 Sep;8(3):253-63.
14. Johnson DW, Johnson FP. Joining together: group theory and group skills. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1987.
15. Farquhar SA, Michael YL, Wiggins N. Building on leadership and social capital to create change in 2 urban communities. Am J Public Health. 2005 Apr;95(4):596-601.
16. Love MB, Legion V, Shim JK, et al. CHWs get credit: a 10-year history of the first college-credit certificate for community health workers in the United States. Health Promot Pract. 2004 Oct;5(4):418-28.
17. Giblin PT. Effective utilization and evaluation of indigenous health care workers. Public Health Rep. 1989 Jul-Aug;104(4):361-8.
18. Wiggins N, Borbon IA. Core roles and competencies of community health workers. In: Rosendthal EL, Wiggins N, Brownsteing JN, et al, eds. The final report of the national community health advisor study: weaving the future. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, 1998:15-49.
19. Witmer A, Seifer SD, Finocchio L, et al. Community health workers: integral members of the health care work force. Am J Public Health. 1995 Aug;85(8 Pt 1):1055-8.
20. Cartwright E, Schow D, Herrera S, et al. Using participatory research to build an effective type 2 diabetes intervention: the process of advocacy among female Hispanic farmworkers and their families in Southeast Idaho. Women Health. 2006;43(4):89-109.
21. Gregg J, Centurion L, Maldonado J, et al. Interpretations of interpretations: combining community-based participatory research and interpretive inquiry to improve health. Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2010 Summer;4(2):149-54.
22. Andrews JO, Bentley G, Crawford S, et al. Using community-based participatory research to develop a culturally sensitive smoking cessation intervention with public housing neighborhoods. Ethn Dis. 2007 Spring;17(2):331-7.
23. Michael YL, Farquhar SA, Wiggins N, et al. Findings from a community-based participatory prevention research intervention designed to increase social capital in Latino and African American communities. J Immigr Minor Health. 2008 Jun;10(3):281-9.
24. Christopher S, Gidley AL, Letiecq B, et al. A cervical cancer community-based participatory research project in a Native American community. Health Educ Behav. 2008 Dec;35(6):821-34. Epub 2007 Dec 12.
25. Farquhar SA, Wiggins N, Michael YL, et al. "Sitting in different chairs:" roles of the community health workers in the Poder es Salud/Power for Health Project. Educ Health (Abingdon). 2008 Jul;21(2):39. Epub 2008 Sep 9.
26. Hill MN, Bone LR, Butz AM. Enhancing the role of community-health workers in research. Image J Nurs Sch. 1996 Fall;28(3):221-6.
27. Minkler M, Garcia AP, Williams J, et al. Sí Se puede: using participatory research to promote environmental justice in a Latino community in San Diego, California. J Urban Health. 2010 Sep;87(5):796-812.
28. Nelson A, Lewy R, Dovydaitis T, et al. Promotores as researchers: expanding the promotor role in community-based research. Health Promot Pract. 2011 Sep;12(5):681-8. Epub 2011 Mar 22.
29. Oliver SR, Rees RW, Clarke-Jones L, et al. A multidimensional conceptual framework for analysing public involvement in health services research. Health Expect. 2008 Mar;11(1):72-84.
30. Ong BN, Hooper H. Involving users in low back pain research. Health Expect. 2003 Dec;6(4):332-41.
31. Jo AM, Maxwell AE, Yang B, et al. Conducting health research in Korean American churches: perspectives from church leaders. J Community Health. 2010 Apr;35(2): 156-64.
32. Schutt RK, Schapira L, Maniates J, et al. Community health workers' support for cancer clinical trials: description and explanation. J Community Health. 2010 Aug;35(4): 417-22.
33. Terpstra J, Coleman KJ, Simon G, et al. The role of community health workers (CHWs) in health promotion research: ethical challenges and practical solutions. Health Promot Pract. 2011 Jan;12(1):86-93. Epub 2009 Apr 3.
34. Tong A, Sainsbury P, Carter SM, et al. Patients' priorities for health research: focus group study of patients with chronic kidney disease. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2008 Oct;23(10):3206-14. Epub 2008 Apr 29.