Estimating Food Insecurity and Its Association With HIV-Related Health Outcomes Using Self-Administered Surveys: A Community-Based Research Approach

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianna S. Wetherill ◽  
Robert John ◽  
Denna Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research

Utilization of Collaborations to Engage Children in Physical Activity: A Community-Based Research Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-328
Author(s):  
Sheri J. Brock ◽  
Danielle Wadsworth ◽  
Shelby Foote ◽  
Mary E. Rudisill
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Quality Product ◽  
Long Term Impact

Institutions of higher education have a responsibility to prioritize the needs of society and local communities. One essential need prevalent in all communities is to address the rise of obesity and health risks due to lack of participation in physical activity. In the United States, children spend a small percentage of time engaged in physical activity, and engagement decreases further in adolescence and adulthood. Collaborative partnerships between kinesiology faculty at universities and community organizations are one avenue for engaging children in physical activity. Partnerships must be multilevel and community wide to evoke change and have long-term impact and sustainability. Within the context of community-based research, we propose a three-step framework for establishing collaborative partnerships: (1) determining the needs of partners; (2) discussing expertise, services, and philosophy; and (3) providing a quality product. In addition, we outline and illustrate our experiences when collaborating with community partners to promote physical activity.

Updated Understanding of the Experiences and Perceptions of Alcohol Use in Later Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sarah L. Canham ◽  
Joe Humphries ◽  
Anthony L. Kupferschmidt ◽  
Emily Lonsdale
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Physical Effects ◽  
The Cost

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to update our understandings of older adults’ experiences and perceptions of alcohol use. Taking a community-based research approach, three Knowledge Café workshops hosted 66 older adults and service providers in Vancouver, BC. Thematic analysis identified three overarching categories: (a) reasons older adults use alcohol, including out of habit, social expectations, or to self-medicate; (b) personal experiences of alcohol use, including reduced consumption over time as a result of the cost of alcohol, the physical effects, and increased knowledge about the effects of alcohol; and (c) older adults’ perceptions of alcohol use outcomes, including positive outcomes from drinking in moderation and negative outcomes that can worsen one’s health, lead to tolerance, and harm others. Developing and promoting healthy drinking behaviours in later life is needed as the general population continues to age.

Sustaining health education research programs in Aboriginal communities

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Wisener ◽  
Jennifer Shapka ◽  
Sandra Jarvis-Selinger
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Education Interventions ◽  
Health Education Interventions

Despite evidence supporting the ongoing provision of health education interventions in First Nations communities, there is a paucity of research that specifically addresses how these programs should be designed to ensure sustainability and long-term effects. Using a Community-Based Research approach, a collective case study was completed with three Canadian First Nations communities to address the following research question: What factors are related to sustainable health education programs, and how do they contribute to and/or inhibit program success in an Aboriginal context? Semi-structured interviews and a sharing circle were completed with 19 participants, including members of community leadership, external partners, and program staff and users. Seven factors were identified to either promote or inhibit program sustainability, including: 1) community uptake; 2) environmental factors; 3) stakeholder awareness and support; 4) presence of a champion; 5) availability of funding; 6) fit and flexibility; and 7) capacity and capacity building. Each factor is provided with a working definition, influential moderators, and key evaluation questions. This study is grounded in, and builds on existing research, and can be used by First Nations communities and universities to support effective sustainability planning for community-based health education interventions.

scholarly journals Provoking Change in Researchers’ Roles: Using a Community-Based Research Approach to Address Research Needs in the Community

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly L. Stack-Cutler
Keyword(s):  
Role Theory ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
As Relationship

This article is based on a community-based research practicum conducted with a Headstart program in western Canada. The purpose of the text is to describe the progression of one researcher’s roles from inception to completion of a year-long research project while working in collaboration with a community partner. Following a brief review of principles of community-based research, a case study is used to show how principles were adhered to in a practicum. A variation of traditional role theory is introduced as a useful framework to navigate burgeoning researcher roles and role multiplicity. These are (a) researcher as researcher, (b) researcher as collaborator, (c) researcher as relationship builder, (d) researcher as teacher, and (e) researcher as learner. Considerations for ways to promote researchers—students and academics—to develop skills to correspond with changing researcher roles are presented, along with future directions to empirically examine researcher roles in community-based research.

scholarly journals A community-based participatory research approach to understanding social eating for food well-being

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Nadina R Luca ◽  
Marsha Smith ◽  
Sally Hibbert
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Food Service ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Social Eating ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Food Charity

‘Social eating initiatives’ are a specific type of community-based food service that provides opportunities for people to eat together in local spaces using surplus food. These initiatives provide a meal that is fresh, affordable and more environmentally friendly than fast or convenience foods. In this research, we build upon the food well-being model to explore how food consumption is experienced in these community settings and the role of social eating projects in shaping the different dimensions of people’s foodscapes. We adopted a community-based participatory approach and engaged in a series of dialogues with staff volunteers and coordinators at four ‘social eating initiatives’. We also conducted 45 interviews with service users and volunteers at three sites in the Midlands region.   The role of community-based food initiatives responding to hunger by utilising surplus food to feed local populations is often conceptualised critically. The conjoining of food insecurity and surplus food appears to instrumentally feed customers and reduce food wastage, but in ways that are stigmatising, and which position customers as passive recipients of food charity. However, closer attention to the experiences of staff, volunteers and customers at these spaces, reveals them as sites where knowledge and experience of food is being developed with this contributing to a sense of well-being beyond nutrition. Shared food practices and eating together contribute to social capital and are important dimensions of food well-being that are significantly restricted by food insecurity. The ‘food well-being’ model envisages a shift in focus from health, defined as the absence of illness, towards well-being as a positive relationship with food at the individual and societal level. In the concluding remarks of this article, it is suggested that this holistic conception is required to understand the role and function of social eating initiatives.

scholarly journals Membangun Program Komunitas Wirausaha Siswa Melalui Pendidikan Berorientasi Kerja

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 80-96
Author(s):  
Syamsuar Abbas ◽  
Zelhendri Zen ◽  
Reflianto Reflianto
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Education Program ◽  
School Community ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
West Sumatra

The community services purposes was to establish the work-oriented school community program and prepared the volunteers as trainer for digital design Corel draw and photoshop as well as the training of producing any souvenir made by shellfish shells in order to build a work-oriented education program in the Senior high school community and strengthen the students’ entrepreneur skills in two State Senior High School 12 and 13 Padang. This Community-Based Research approach involved two state senior high school students in Padang City. The result of the services showed that the program of community-based research plays an important role in realizing the work-oriented education program by strengthening the local industrial contents and extracurricular activities of entrepreneurship training in the schools. It could be seen from the improvement of students' skill in the creative business of digital design and souvenir products made by shellfish as well as increasing student’s spirit for directly involving in the activities of entrepreneurship in their school.  Follow up these activities should strengthen the cooperation among another school in West Sumatra to have the graduates of ready to work and ready to be entrepreneur indirectly help the government to reduce the educated unemployment in West Sumatra as well.

scholarly journals Pembedayaan Masyarakat Melalui Pemanfaatan Komoditas Ketela di Desa Giricahyo

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-200
Author(s):  
Sunarsih Sunarsih
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Program Optimization ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
New Model ◽  
The Way

This paper tries to explore the empowering model through the function of cassava commodity as an increase of prosperous people in Giricahyo Village, Gunungkidul. Through a community-based research approach, qualitatively, a workshop for cassava commodity development has become the trend in the empowerment program. The framework to change the way of positivistic paradigm to shift more than holistic, synergic, and transdisciplinary can be claimed as a new model of social intervention. Furthermore, the study finds that assistance people can be optimized when it is paradigm implemented in the community development process. This article argues that the innovation of cassava processed in various creativity can appear new understood and knowledge for people to restricted productivity. Society has been motivated to open a new enterprise product. However, social welfare can not evaluate in this program. Optimization of cassava processed has become snack produce that it can be a solution of increasing prosperous people with the evaluation of the program.Tulisan ini mengeksplorasi model pemberdayaan melalui pemanfaatan komoditas ketela sebagai upaya untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat Desa Giricahyo, Gunungkidul. Melalui pendekatan community-based research, secara kualitatif, pelatihan pengembangan komoditas ketela menjadi trend dalam program pemberdayaan. Kerangka kerja dari perubahan cara pandang pemikiran positivistik ke arah yang lebih holistik, sinergis, dan transdisipliner dapat diklaim sebagai model intervensi sosial baru. Karena itu, studi ini menemukan pendampingan masyarakat dapat berjalan optimal ketika paradigma tersebut diterapkan dalam proses pemberdayaan. Artikel ini berargumentasi bahwa inovasi olahan ketela dengan beragam varian kreativitas dapat memunculkan pemahaman dan wawasan baru bagi masyarakat dalam produksi yang terbatas. Masyarakat telah termotivasi untuk membuka usaha baru. Namun demikian, tingkat kesejahteraan masyarakat tidak dapat diukur dalam program ini. Pengoptimalan pengolahan ketela menjadi makanan ringan dapat menjadi solusi untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan dengan capaian evaluasi yang terukur.

Food insecurity, diet quality, and mental health in culturally diverse adolescents

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Lachance ◽  
Michael Sean Martin ◽  
Pamela Kaduri ◽  
Paula Godoy-Paiz ◽  
Jorge Ginieniewicz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Diet Quality ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Poor Diet ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to increase the understanding of adolescents’ perceptions of food insecurity and diet quality, and the impact that these factors have on mental health. Design/methodology/approach – This study used a community-based research approach. It gathered qualitative data from 11 in-depth interviews conducted with adolescents aged 13-19. Participants were recruited through various programmes they attended at a community organization in Toronto. Findings – Overall, results indicate that respondents clearly identified a linkage between food insecurity and mental health. They also identified several effects of poor diet quality on mental health. Respondents understood food insecurity and poor diet quality to exist on a continuum. However, they also identified other reasons for making poor dietary choices such as peer pressure. Mental health effects of food insecurity and poor diet quality included sadness, stress, worry, anger, shame, impaired concentration, and fatigue. Practical implications – This research will help to inform future research design in the field of social determinants of mental health. As well, the findings will help guide the development of interventions targeted towards this vulnerable age group. Originality/value – This is the first qualitative study to explore food insecurity and poor diet quality, as existing on a continuum, from the perspective of adolescents. The authors are also the first to explore the impact of these factors on the mental health of adolescents, based on their own understanding. What is more, the authors focused on a culturally diverse population living in an underprivileged neighbourhood in Toronto. The authors chose this population because they are at higher risk of both food insecurity and poor diet quality.

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