LibGuides: A Researcher's Guide to Community Engaged Research: Duke Publications

Publications on Community Engaged Research from Duke

The 5Ws of Racial Equity in Research: A Framework for Applying a Racial Equity Lens Throughout the Research Process The 5Ws of Racial Equity in Research is a framework that uses the questions "Who, What, When, Where, and Why" to promote racial equity in research processes and among the research workforce. The framework uses historical and contemporary examples of research inequities to encourage open discussion and proactive planning for equity. It can be used as a starting point for understanding processes, evaluating circumstances, and being intentional in achieving racial equity in research.

COVID-19 Health Equity Studies Prompt Policy Recommendations to Prioritize Community Health Worker Models A new policy paper from Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, UNC Center for Health Equity Research and Duke Clinical Research Institute delivers policy recommendations to enhance and prioritize Community Health Worker (CHW) models into existing health care transformation reforms to address health inequities in the U.S.
Designing and Implementing a Community-Engaged Research e-Library; A Case Study for Adapting Academic Library Information Infrastructure to Respond to Stakeholder Needs The Duke University Clinical and Translational Science Institute Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI) created an e-Library in 2018. This e-Library was developed in response to academic researchers and community requests for reliable, easily accessible information about community-engaged research approaches and concepts. It was vetted by internal and external partners. The e-Library’s goal is to compile and organize nationally relevant community-engaged research resources to build bi-directional capacity between diverse community collaborators and the academic research community. Key elements of the e-Library’s development included a selection of LibGuides as the platform; iterative community input; adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic; and modification of this resource as needs grow and change.
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Subjects: Community Engagement, Research, Libguide, e-library, stakeholders
Participatory Research to Improve Medication Reconciliation for Older Adults in the Community Medication reconciliation, a technique that assists in aligning a care team's understanding of an individual's true medication regimen, is vital to optimize medication use and prevent medication errors. Historically, most medication reconciliation research has focused on institutional settings and transitional care, with comparatively little attention given to medication reconciliation in community settings. To optimize medication reconciliation for community-dwelling older adults, healthcare professionals and older adults must be engaged in co-designing processes that create sustainable approaches.
Biological and Clinical Correlates of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9: Exploratory Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Baseline Health Study This publication features highlights on how: (1) even subthreshold depressive symptoms (measured by PHQ-9) may be indicative of several individual- and population-level concerns that demand more attention; and (2) depression should be considered a comorbidity in common disease.
Demographics Imbalances Resulting From the Bring Your Own Device Study Design Digital health technologies, such as smartphones and wearable devices, promise to revolutionize disease prevention, detection, and treatment. Recently, there has been a surge of digital health studies where data are collected through a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) approach, in which participants who already own a specific technology may voluntarily sign up for the study and provide their digital health data. BYOD study design accelerates the collection of data from a larger number of participants than cohort design; this is possible because researchers are not limited in the study population size based on the number of devices afforded by their budget or the number of people familiar with the technology. However, the BYOD study design may not support the collection of data from a representative random sample of the target population where digital health technologies are intended to be deployed. This may result in biased study results and biased downstream technology development, as has occurred in other fields. In this viewpoint paper, we describe demographic imbalances discovered in existing BYOD studies, including our own, and we propose the Demographic Improvement Guideline to address these imbalances.
Research Translation: A Pathway for Health Inequity In a context of social inequity, research translation naturally furthers health inequity. As Fundamental Cause Theory (FCT) explains—and an associated empirical literature illustrates—those with more resources benefit earlier and more from scientific innovation than those with fewer resources. Therefore, research translation of its own course creates and widens health disparities based on socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity. Yet, the conversation about research translation has yet to center this critical reality, undermining our efforts to address heath inequity. Moving toward sustainable health equity requires that we build the evidence base for, prioritize, and institutionalize translation approaches that center the needs and assets of low‐resource populations (with community engagement helping toward that end). However, even the impact of that approach will be limited if we as a society do not mobilize knowledge to address social inequity and the many ways in which it shapes health. The health research community should engage the FCT paradigm to think critically about resource allocation among different kinds of research and action. Moreover, in our contributions to discussions about the road to health equity, we must be forthcoming about the reality FCT describes and the limitations it indicates for achieving health equity through translation of biomedical, clinical, health services, and health behavior research alone.

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A Researcher's Guide to Community Engaged Research: Duke Publications

Publications on Community Engaged Research from Duke