Community-Based Participatory Research: A Collaborative Study to Measure Capabilities Towards Recovery in Mental Health Community Organizations

Objective: The purpose of this article is to offer a theoretical review on community based research, namely about collaborative processes and qualitative participatory methodologies, and to present an application of this framework to the research design. Method: It is provided a review on community-based research methodology, university-community partnerships, and is described the qualitative participatory methodology used in one collaborative study. Conclusion: following the partnership guidelines for collaborative community-university research, we highlight the participatory and qualitative process that intended to develop a measure of user’s capability gains fostered by mental health community based organizations. This article was supported by FCT Grant PTDC/PSI-PCL/113301/2009. peerReviewed publishedVersion