Table 4.

Principles of Community-Based Participatory Research

Principle 1	Principle 2	Principle 3	Principle 4	Principal 5	Principle 6	Principle 7	Principle 8	Principle 9
Establish clear goals	Become knowledgeable about the community	Establish relationships	Develop community self- determination	Partner with the community	Maintain respect for community diversity	Mobilize community assets	Release control	Maintain community collaboration
To develop a model to improve the oral health of rural Gullah community	Meetings with local leaders and historians to learn more about the culture and habits. Created study specific community advisory board; Academic partners participated in multiple community events; Community members hired as part of the research team.	Partnerships were slowly formed with different community / church leaders; Partnership established with community clinics.	Participated in multiple cultural events, educating the community on how to take better care of their oral health needs; Research team became involved in other projects, led by the community.	Formal partnership established with the Mayor’s office; multiple churches in the Sea Island communities and with the Community Advisory Board (CAB).	Smaller community advisory boards formed in each participating community / church; Hired community members to be part of the research team; Used different recruitment/ intervention strategies, based on community input.	Used community’s strengths (i.e., people assets and current infrastructure (church, community dental clinics) to improve different aspects of the projects.	Community and academic partners are Co-PIs in different projects. Community organization is funded by grant support.	Community is involved in every aspect of the project, from problem identification, through finding possible solutions to results dissemination Research team involved in community led projects.