The Institutional Review Board of the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus approved the protocol (A4120215) of the project that emerged from the community-academic coalition. The development of this coalition used the CBPR conceptual and practical framework for guiding its creation.14–16 A core principle of CBPR is the need to identify and enhance community capacity by building on strengths, resources, and relationships that exist within communities to address their communal health concerns.
