Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to scientific research that is gaining broader application to address persistent problems in health care disparities and other hypothesis-driven research. However, information on how to form CBPR community-academic partnerships and how to best involve community partners in scientific research is not well-defined. The purpose of this p...

PROBLEM Concerns have been raised that community participation might compromise scientific rigor in community-based participatory research (CBPR). PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to identify potential sources of tension between the values of scientific rigor and community participation in CBPR. KEY POINTS CBPR lies at the nexus of two major underlying ethical concerns--respect for comm...