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Universal Journal of Public Health Vol. 7(3), pp. 103 - 109
DOI: 10.13189/ujph.2019.070303
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Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) and Refugees' Health Studies: What's Working and What's Not Working
Huaibo Xin *
Department of Applied Health, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA
ABSTRACT
The Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) has been well defined and widely applied to different study populations in a variety of health topic areas to address the urgency of translating research into practice, reducing health disparities, improving health equity, and advocating for health policy changes. The current study aims to systematically examine how CBPR has been applied to improving underserved refugee populations' health and identify the successes and challenges of CBPR utilization among refugees. A total of 930 peer-reviewed journal articles, reports, commentaries, theses, dissertations, books, and book chapters in English, retrieved from several major databases (e.g., EBSCO, ERIC, PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL Plus, and Google Scholar) were initially reviewed. Fourteen peer-reviewed journal articles were finally selected and analyzed using the theme analysis. Results showed that successes of utilization CBPR in refugee health studies were achieved in areas of shared learning, trust, recruitment, methodological rigor, advocacy, sociocultural determinants, dissemination/ sustainability, ethics, cultural competency, and stigma. However, the CBPR practice was also challenged by issues emerging from institutional culture and structure, clinical procedures, non-probability sampling, self-reflection, and repetition. Current literature suggests that overcoming these challenges requires both institutional restructure and policy changes, and changes in the focus of both internal and external funding mechanisms.
KEYWORDS
Community-based Participatory Research, Photovoice, Refugees, Health
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Huaibo Xin , "Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) and Refugees' Health Studies: What's Working and What's Not Working," Universal Journal of Public Health, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 103 - 109, 2019. DOI: 10.13189/ujph.2019.070303.
(b). APA Format:
Huaibo Xin (2019). Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) and Refugees' Health Studies: What's Working and What's Not Working. Universal Journal of Public Health, 7(3), 103 - 109. DOI: 10.13189/ujph.2019.070303.