Premium
Collaborative Measurement Development as a Tool in CBPR: Measurement Development and Adaptation within the Cultures of Communities
Author(s) -
Gonzalez John,
Trickett Edison J.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/s10464-014-9655-1
Subject(s) - participatory action research , community based participatory research , health psychology , adaptation (eye) , psychology , public health , sociology , citizen journalism , social psychology , applied psychology , medicine , nursing , computer science , anthropology , world wide web , neuroscience
This paper describes the processes we engaged into develop a measurement protocol used to assess the outcomes in a community based suicide and alcohol abuse prevention project with two Alaska Native communities.While the literature on community‐based participatory research (CBPR) is substantial regarding the importance of collaborations, few studies have reported on this collaboration in the process of developing measures to assess CBPR projects. We first tell a story of the processes around the standard issues of doing cross‐cultural work on measurement development related to areas of equivalence. A second story is provided that highlights how community differences within the same cultural group can affect both the process and content of culturally relevant measurement selection, adaptation, and development.