Attitudes towards health research participation: a qualitative study of US Arabs and Chaldeans.

Background: The Arab Muslim and Chaldean Christian American community is unified by language but culturally diverse. Researchers are challenged to engage the Arab/Chaldean community to meet immigrant health needs. Arabs/Chaldeans are identified as white in clinical data sets making it difficult to identify health behaviours and patterns unique to the community.

Team Science Approach to Developing Consensus on Research Good Practices for Practice-Based Research Networks: A Case Study.

Using peer learning strategies, seven experienced PBRNs working in collaborative teams articulated procedures for PBRN Research Good Practices (PRGPs). The PRGPs is a PBRN-specific resource to facilitate PBRN management and staff training, to promote adherence to study protocols, and to increase validity and generalizability of study findings. This paper describes the team science processes which culminated in the PRGPs.

Practice-based Research Network Research Good Practices (PRGPs): Summary of Recommendations.

Introduction: Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) conduct research in community settings, which poses quality control challenges to the integrity of research, such as study implementation and data collection. A foundation for improving research processes within PBRNs is needed to ensure research integrity.

Methods: Network directors and coordinators from seven U.

Use of community engagement strategies to increase research participation in practice-based research networks (PBRNs).

Purpose: Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) are increasingly encouraged to use community engagement approaches. The extent to which PBRNs engage clinic and community partners in strategies to recruit and retain participants from their local communities (specifically racial/ethnic communities) is the focus of this study.

Methods: The design was a cross-sectional survey of PBRN directors in the United States.

Cultivating a cycle of trust with diverse communities in practice-based research: a report from PRIME Net.

Purpose: Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) are increasingly seen as important vehicles to translate research into practice, although less is known about the process of engaging diverse communities in PBRN research. The objective of this study was to identify strategies for successfully recruiting and retaining diverse racial/ethnic communities into PBRN research studies.

Methods: This collaborative, multisite study engaged 5 of the 8 networks of the PRImary care MultiEthnic Network (PRIME Net) consortium that conducts research with traditionally underrepresented/underserved populations.

Estimating health literacy in family medicine clinics in metropolitan Detroit: a MetroNet study.

Objective: Assessing health literacy during the clinical encounter is difficult. Many established instruments are lengthy and not practical for use in a busy practice setting. Our objective was to compare the performance of 3 health literacy screening questions against the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy for Adults (S-TOFHLA) in an urban, ethnically diverse primary care practice-based research network.

Postpartum doulas: motivations and perceptions of practice.

Objective: To describe the perceptions of a US cohort of experienced birth doulas who were among the first in the country to be trained to provide postpartum support.

Design: A qualitative, longitudinal study using ethnographic methods; participant observation and semi-structured interviews.

Setting: Midwestern, urban, US; postpartum home care over three months.

Phases of "pre-engagement" capacity building: discovery, exploration, and trial alliance.

Background: Academic prevention researchers who engage limited-resource communities may find that organizational or community capacity for prevention is low. Community organizations, neighborhoods, and academic partners may lack shared issue awareness, mutual interests, and interactive skills necessary for collaborative intervention. Existing capacity building models either ignore a 'pre-engagement' phase or acknowledge it without offering strategic detail.

Perceptions of training in occupational and environmental medicine among family medicine residents.

Objective: Although knowledge of occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) is important for effective primary health care practice, few studies have examined physicians' appraisals of training in OEM. We evaluated family medicine residents' perceptions of a 4-week rotation in OEM that combined lectures, worksite visits, and clinical placements.

Methods: Qualitative analysis of residents' rotation evaluations (n = 208) collected between 2002 and 2008.

Results of the first year of active for life: translation of 2 evidence-based physical activity programs for older adults into community settings.

Objectives: Translating efficacious interventions into practice within community settings is a major public health challenge. We evaluated the effects of 2 evidence-based physical activity interventions on self-reported physical activity and related outcomes in midlife and older adults.

Methods: Four community-based organizations implemented Active Choices, a 6-month, telephone-based program, and 5 implemented Active Living Every Day, a 20-week, group-based program.