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Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 31, No. 6, 684-697 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1090198104269566

Ethical Challenges for the "Outside" Researcher in Community-Based Participatory Research

Meredith Minkler, DrPH

School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

Although community-based participatory research (CBPR) shares many of the core values of health education and related fields, the outside researcher embracing this approach to inquiry frequently is confronted with thorny ethical challenges. Following a brief review of the conceptual and historical roots of CBPR, Kelly’s ecological principles for community-based research and Jones’s three-tiered framework for understanding racism are introduced as useful frameworks for helping explore several key challenges. These are (a) achieving a true "community-driven" agenda; (b) insider-outsider tensions; (c) real and perceived racism; (d) the limitations of "participation"; and (e) issues involving the sharing, ownership, and use of findings for action. Case studies are used in an initial exploration of these topics. Green et al.’s guidelines for appraising CBPR projects then are highlighted as an important tool for helping CBPR partners better address the challenging ethical issues often inherent in this approach.

Key Words: community-based participatory research • research ethics • community partnerships


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