Community-based participatory research: lessons from sharing results with the community: Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project.

Background: Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project (KSDPP) is an ongoing, community-based participatory research project with an Aboriginal community in Canada, promoting healthy lifestyles to prevent type 2 diabetes.

Objectives: To document lessons learned from sharing results with the community, and analyzing feedback from attendees.

Methods: In 2004, a researcher-community team delivered 16 sessions of a contextualized presentation of data collected from 1994 to 2002.

Participatory research with native community of Kahnawake creates innovative Code of Research Ethics.

Participatory research requires ethical guidelines to incorporate the needs of the partners, i.e., the researchers and the community.

The Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project: intervention, evaluation, and baseline results of a diabetes primary prevention program with a native community in Canada.

Objectives: Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project is a 3-year community-based, primary prevention program for non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in a Mohawk community near Montreal, Canada. Objectives are to improve healthy eating and encourage more physical activity among elementary school children.

Methods: Intervention incorporates behavior change theory, Native learning styles, the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, and a health promotion planning model.