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Increasingly, public health research standards call for engaging communities who live with health issues under investigation to help ensure that results translate into effective public health measures. Here, we share guiding principles for community-driven epidemiologic research developed over a decade conducting research sought and controlled by participating communities. These principles provide a roadmap for epidemiologic research that effectively addresses community priorities while meeting academic standards: research questions are developed collaboratively in community-university partnerships; knowledge takes shape from information donated by participants through methods that turn information into scientifically useful data and analysis that reveals data patterns that address research questions; thus, knowledge is generated collaboratively by academic researchers and community partners; academic researchers are bound by ethical, professional, scientific, contractual, and other legal standards to be responsible stewards of information donated by participants; community review protocols ensure that interpretation and presentation of research results reflect the voices of all partners; meaningful community review creates the trust needed for open access to research results as required of academic researchers; all partners share credit for achievements. Lacking models for operationalizing these principles, we developed specific guidelines for research project initiation, data use, authorship, acknowledgment, and data dissemination. Conventions in academia present formidable challenges to effective community engagement and are often at odds with calls from community organizations and funding agencies to conduct research driven by community priorities and values. We hope others can benefit from time and effort we have spent crafting solutions that bridge this divide.

How will climate change affect the sustainability of Arctic villages over the next 40 years? This question motivated a collaboration of 23 researchers and four Arctic communities (Old Crow, Yukon Territory, Canada; Aklavik, Northwest Territories, Canada; Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, Canada; and Arctic Village, Alaska, USA) in or near the range of the Porcupine Caribou Herd. We drew on existing research and local knowledge to examine potential effects of climate change, petroleum development, tourism, and government spending cutbacks on the sustainability of four Arctic villages. We used data across eight disciplines to develop an Arctic Community Synthesis Model and a Web-based, interactive Possible Futures Model. Results suggested that climate warming will increase vegetation biomass within the herd’s summer range. However, despite forage increasing, the herd was projected as likely to decline with a warming climate because of increased insect harassment in the summer and potentially greater winter snow depths. There was a strong negative correlation between hypothetical, development-induced displacement of cows and calves from utilized calving grounds and calf survival during June. The results suggested that climate warming coupled with petroleum development would cause a decline in caribou harvest by local communities. Because the Synthesis Model inherits uncertainties associated with each component model, sensitivity analysis is required. Scientists and stakeholders agreed that (1) although simulation models are incomplete abstractions of the real world, they helped bring scientific and community knowledge together, and (2) relationships established across disciplines and between scientists and communities were a valuable outcome of the study. Additional project materials, including the Web-based Possible Futures Model, are available at http://www.taiga.net/sustain.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui: (1) Pengaruh sikap terhadap pengajuan komplain, tingkat ketidakpuasan, persepsi bahwa komplain akan berhasil, dan kepercayaan diri terhadap niat untuk komplain, word of mouth negatif, dan niat untuk beralih pada rumah makan di Yogyakarta. (2) Apakah terdapat perbedaan niat untuk komplain, word of mouth negatif, dan niat untuk beralih berdasarkan jenis kelamin dan uang saku per bulan. Data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah data primer. Data primer diperoleh dengan cara membagikan kuesioner kepada responden sesuai dengan sampel yang telah ditentukan. Penelitian ini dilakukan kepada Mahasiswa Atma Jaya Yogyakarta Fakultas Ekonomi yang pernah mengalami kekecewaan ketika makan di suatu rumah makan dan pernah melakukan perilaku komplain dalam. Analisis yang digunakan adalah analisis regresi linier berganda, uji independent sample t-test, dan uji one way anova. Hasil analisis menunjukan bahwa tingkat ketidakpuasan memiliki pengaruh terhadap word of mouth negatif dan niat untuk beralih sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa mahasiswa Atma Jaya Yogyakarta Fakultas Ekonomi lebih menyukai untuk menceritakan kejadian buruk yang dialaminya kepada teman atau berpindah dari penyedia jasa saat ini ke penyedia jasa yang baru daripada melakukan komplain langsung ke rumah makan.