Chunk #5 — METHODS AND RESULTS — Common Elements of the CPBR approach — 1) Community participation in determining research agenda

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The marriage of community-based participatory research and practice-based research networks: can it work? -A Research Involving Outpatient Settings Network (RIOS Net) study.

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Most experts on CBPR believe that the community should have a key or even lead role in determining the priority topics for research which involves the community. (Table 1) This engagement of community members prior to developing research plans inverts the usual process whereby researchers develop the research topic, question and design before approaching a community.