Participatory Approaches for Study Design and Analysis in Dissemination and Implementation Research

An inherently action-focused research orientation, community-based participatory research is particularly well suited to dissemination and implementation research. Prominent among the latter are enhanced dissemination and implementation of findings through the authentic engagement of community partners and other stakeholders throughout. In this discussion of community-based participatory research, and the use of the Chinatown Restaurant Worker Study to illustrate its principles in action, the authors have highlighted many of the benefits community-based participatory research can offer to research and its dissemination and implementation. Drawing on this and other community-based participatory research case studies and literature, the chapter also suggests a number of implications that community-based participatory research holds for dissemination and implementation research, and bridging the gap between research and practice.

The first case of criminalization of transmission of hepatitis B in the UK: defendant sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on the grounds of hepatitis B deoxyribonucleic acid sequencing

A 29-year-old Turkish man Ercan Yasar, who worked as a restaurant worker in Cheltenham, infected a Cheltenham woman 27 years of age with hepatitis B and chlamydia between 14 and 17 September 2007. He was charged with biological grievous bodily harm, which carries a maximum of five years’ imprisonment if found guilty following a trial. The defendant, Ercan Yasar, pleaded guilty to the charge and was given appropriate credit for entering an early guilty plea and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment before the Gloucester Crown Court on 14 November 2008.