Deck 9: Community-Based Participatory Research

Question 1

In CBPR, lay community members are not typically involved in the quantitative statistical analysis of the data collected.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

CBRP has the potential to bridge "cultural gaps".

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The four research methods to CBPR include COPD, focus groups, photovoice, and in-depth interviews.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

CBPR is an approach to research designed to promote community and population health through the establishment and maintenance of community partnership.

Question 5

CBPR emphasizes co-learning and the reciprocal transfer of expertise, decision-making power, and the ownership of the process and products of research.

Question 6

CBPR offers a few disadvantages with one being that it increases cultural gaps between researchers and community members.

Question 7

Research paradigms are to gain an insider's perspective on how people live and the issues facing the community.

Question 8

A deficit-based approach is the systematic examination and appraisal of the type, depth, and scope of needs to set priorities in the research process.

Question 9

As a qualitative methodology, focus groups provide the opportunity to investigate participant responses and reactions related to an issue or topic more fully.

Question 10

With CBPR, learning occurs as a partnership that can include community partners developing analysis skills.

Question 11

Closed-ended questions tend to provide more exploratory, developmental, and contextual data.

Question 12

Community partners in CBPR may not choose to participate in all phases of research, because it is not necessary that community representation be present in each phase.

Question 13

When conducting CBPR, it is vital to remember that the key to building trust is relationship maintenance.

Question 14

What is the purpose of community-based participatory research?

A) Allows scientists to freely enter communities for research purposes
B) Gives lay community members the opportunity to do their own research
C) Creates co-learning and shared research between scientists and lay community members
D) Is a strictly a survey methodology intended to use community data at the national level

Question 15

What is the paradigm associated with community-based participatory research?

A) Positivism
B) Constructivism
C) Deconstructivism
D) Pragmatism

Question 16

Which of the following activities would be considered action-oriented community diagnosis AOCD?

A) Researchers drive around the community and take photographs
B) A member of the community takes researchers on a tour to collect field notes
C) A group of community members meet with a researcher for a roundtable interview at the local library
D) Community members are trained to ask questions to each other concerning the research topic

Question 17

Which of the follow statements about CBPR interviewing is true?

A) Structured interviews are the best way to ensure truth-telling
B) Self-administered questionnaires are used first and then followed by interviews when necessary
C) The measurement method is agreed upon through partnership
D) Community members always do the interviewing of other community members

Question 18

Which of the following is considered a stakeholder in CBPR?

A) The researcher
B) Community members
C) Civic organizations
D) Everyone associated with or affected by the research

Question 19

Which of the following approaches to needs assessment is characteristic of CBPR action-oriented community diagnosis?

A) Deficit-based
B) Strengths-based
C) Greatest need
D) Benchmark

Question 20

What is meant by the term "emic" perspective?

A) Outsider
B) Insider
C) Shared
D) Universal

Question 21

Which type of interview is characterized by questions that emerge during the interview process?

A) Unstructured
B) Semi-structured
C) Structured
D) None of these

Question 22

Principles, such as "mutual respect and genuineness" and "balancing power and sharing resources", are critical to which approach?

A) Experimental
B) Quasi-experimental
C) CBPR
D) None of these

Question 23

Which is not an advantage of CBPR?

A) Enhances data relevance, usefulness, and use
B) Objective detachment between the researcher and participants
C) Aims to increase the health of communities involved
D) Has the potential to bridge "cultural gaps"

Question 24

In action-oriented Community Diagnosis, how is research disseminated?

A) National conferences
B) Community forums
C) Peer-reviewed journals
D) None of these

Question 25

Which answer is true regarding the purpose of field notes?

A) Provide the opportunity to document first impressions about a community
B) Assist the researcher to remember experiences encountered in the field
C) Document unusual characteristics within a community
D) All of these
E) None of these