Advancing CBPR Practice Through a Collective Reflection and Measurement Toolkit Community-Engaged Research (CEnR) and Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) are key to NIH goals of reduced health disparities, diversified research workforce, increased minority enrollment in research, and enhanced external validity of research findings. Despite rapid CEnR growth and innovation, a shared measurement and evaluation science is still minimal. Multiple high-functioning research partnerships have solid evaluation designs, but most CEnR partnerships are in an emerging or intermediate stage, with little evaluation expertise to assess effective partnering processes. Without internal assessment and collective reflection, adoption of best practices for partnership quality improvement and for impacting health is limited. There is little to no national consensus on universal measures and tools linking CEnR partnering processes to potential intermediate system changes, community capacity, and research outcomes, nor to distal health outcomes. This application takes that next step: to refine and test evidence-based measures and tools of CEnR partnering processes and outcomes (proximal, intermediate, distal) with national CEnR partnerships. This grant builds from our recently-completed NIH study, Research for Improved Health (RIH), where we tested our CBPR Conceptual Model; developed new psychometrically validated quantitative process and outcome measures; and created a Toolkit of promising practices associated with outcomes from our data. We plan to refine measures and test effectiveness of our Collective Reflection and Measurement Toolkit, comprised of our CBPR Conceptual Model, Measures and other Tools, within an interactive guided Training Intervention to improve partnership success of research and capacity outcomes.
Our specific aims i nclude:
Aim I : to reconvene our national Think Tank of academic and community CEnR/CBPR experts from the past seven years for expert consensus on measures; training intervention; and finalized CRM Toolkit;
Aim 2 : to refine and pilot-test reconfigured measures drawn from RIH case study analyses, ie, cultural-centeredness, trust, empowerment, reflexivity, community capacity/readiness, collaboration, implementation/adoption and dissemination/network measures;
and Aim 3 : to conduct a comparative effectiveness randomized control trial (RCT) with 40 partnerships, identified from NIH RePORTER database and CTSAs. Partnerships will be assigned to either 1) Training Intervention (two-day workshop of our CRM Toolkit with Internet-based assessment and personalized data analysis of measures of each partnership's processes and outcomes paired with motivational interviewing, followed by bi-monthly coaching (10 partnerships in four Trainings/each = 40 total); compared to 2) Minimal Web Intervention (providing access to CRM Toolkit resources and website in public domain). With increasing interest from CTSAs, NCI-designated Cancer Centers, ACA commitment to patient/stakeholder input, and from CBPR/CEnR researchers and practitioners, the lack of systematic partnered science is untenable. This study offers two critical outcomes to add to this science: validated and strengthened measures and tools; and effectiveness-testing of the CRM Toolkit to enhance partnership adoption of promising and best measures/practices for improved research and health outcomes.

Public Health Relevance

This grant takes the next step to improve the science of measurement within community engaged research to meet the needs of academic-community research partnerships nation-wide. Building from our previous cross- site CBPR national study, we will refine and test for psychometric properties new measures of CEnR partnering processes and outcomes. We will then test the effectiveness of a Training Intervention, using our Collective Reflection and Measurement Toolkit (with our CBPR conceptual model, our measures, and other qualitative tools), against a Minimal Web control group to improve partnership success in achieving their desired research and capacity outcomes.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
1R01NR015241-01A1
Application #
8961082
Study Section
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health Study Section (DIRH)
Program Officer
Mccloskey, Donna J
Project Start
2015-09-23
Project End
2020-05-31
Budget Start
2015-09-23
Budget End
2016-05-31
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
2015
Total Cost
$559,693
Indirect Cost
$152,210
Name
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Department
Family Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
829868723
City
Albuquerque
State
NM
Country
United States
Zip Code
87131
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