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Table 1 Discussion Guide Questions

From: Community-engaged research to develop a Chicago violence research agenda and recommendations to support future community engagement

Discussion Guide Questions

1. If you were writing a newspaper story about your community, what would the headline be?

2. Let’s talk about the data that was shared about violence in our community.

 a. What did you already know?

  i. Prompts: What was correct? What didn’t capture the whole picture? What was wrong?

 b. What did you learn?

 c. What do you still want to know more about?

3. When you think about violence in Chicago and specifically in your community, are there important questions that no one is asking?

4. What do you think the role of research is?

Prompt: What value does research bring to your community? How can research help us learn more about violence? How can research help us learn how to prevent violence?

5. Who are the important stakeholders in your community?

6. Let’s talk about some specific roles community members can play in research. What kind of support would someone need to participate in one of these roles? What might keep someone from being able to play one of these roles?

Prompt: Financial, trust, accountability, follow-up, resilience, time/convenience

 a. Being on the Advisory Board for a research project

 b. Helping to write questions for a study

 c. Collecting data, for example, surveying people in your community or using a checklist to assess the safety of your neighborhood

 d. Being a subject in a research study

 e. Helping to recruit other subjects for a research study

 f. Helping researchers make sense of their study results

 g. Sharing research results with the community

7. How might you want to be involved in research collaboration about violence in your community?

Prompt: Distinguish participation as a research subject and as a partner in conducting research.