BACKGROUND Despite the need to consider multiple sources of evidence to guide locally and culturally relevant interventions, few studies have documented the process by which evidence is integrated. OBJECTIVES We leveraged a community-academic partnership to describe a participatory approach to integrating community and academic sources of evidence to inform cancer programming priorities in the Arab American (ArA) community in Southwest Chicago. METHODS Informed by Intervention Mapping, this study comprised three phases led by community and academic partners: 1) qualitative assessment of cancer-related priorities through eight focus groups with 48 ArA community members, 2) a focused literature review to identify models of cancer interventions implemented with ArAs, and 3) integration of focus group and literature review findings and development of a strategy for a community-based cancer program administered by the community partner. RESULTS Focus groups revealed attitudes and beliefs across the cancer control continuum. The literature review highlighted two cancer interventions utilizing education, community health workers, and patient navigation components. Through facilitated discussions with community partners, we integrated community and academic sources of evidence to develop a comprehensive cancer program plan that is informed by the data we generated as well as our community partners' preferences and organizational capacity. CONCLUSIONS Our participatory approach for integrating community and academic sources of evidence generated a locally relevant strategy to address cancer burden in the ArA community in Chicago. We discuss the benefits and challenges of utilizing this approach in intervention development.

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社区学术合作伙伴关系探索和解决芝加哥西南部阿拉伯裔美国人的癌症差异。

背景 尽管需要考虑多种证据来源来指导当地和文化相关的干预措施，但很少有研究记录证据整合的过程。目标 我们利用社区-学术伙伴关系来描述一种参与性方法，以整合社区和学术证据来源，为芝加哥西南部的阿拉伯裔美国人 (ArA) 社区的癌症规划优先事项提供信息。方法 根据干预映射，本研究包括由社区和学术合作伙伴领导的三个阶段：1）通过由 48 名 ArA 社区成员组成的 8 个焦点小组对癌症相关优先事项进行定性评估，2）重点文献综述，以确定所实施的癌症干预措施的模型与 ArAs 合作，以及 3) 整合焦点小组和文献综述结果，并制定由社区合作伙伴管理的基于社区的癌症计划策略。结果 焦点小组揭示了整个癌症控制过程中的态度和信念。文献综述强调了利用教育、社区卫生工作者和患者导航组成部分的两种癌症干预措施。通过与社区合作伙伴的便利讨论，我们整合了社区和学术证据来源，以根据我们生成的数据以及社区合作伙伴的偏好和组织能力制定全面的癌症计划。结论 我们整合社区和学术证据来源的参与性方法产生了一项与当地相关的策略，以解决芝加哥 ArA 社区的癌症负担。我们讨论在干预开发中利用这种方法的好处和挑战。