PMID- 26639381
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160202
LR  - 20151207
IS  - 1557-0541 (Print)
IS  - 1557-0541 (Linking)
VI  - 9
IP  - 4
DP  - 2015 Winter
TI  - Measuring Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: The Initial 
      Development of an Assessment Instrument.
PG  - 549-60
LID - 10.1353/cpr.2015.0077 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Although the partnership between academic researchers and community 
      members is paramount to community-based research efforts, a limited number of 
      measures exist to evaluate this construct. Of those in existence, no assessment 
      measures include a comprehensive coverage of the many dimensions of partnerships. 
      In addition, these measures were not designed through an extensive 
      community-based participatory research (CBPR) model, in which the strengths of 
      traditional assessment techniques were integrated with input from stakeholders. 
      OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this article was to describe the creation of a measure 
      to evaluate key dimensions of partnerships forged between researchers and 
      community members using a CBPR approach to measurement development. METHODS: The 
      iterative process of developing this measure consisted of integrating valuable 
      feedback from community partners and researchers, via multiple rounds of item 
      sorting and qualitative interviewing. RESULTS: The resultant measure, titled 
      Partnership Assessment In community-based Research (PAIR), consists of 32 items, 
      and comprises 5 dimensions: communication, collaboration, partnership values, 
      benefits, and evaluation. The innovative process of using CBPR in the development 
      of measures, the benefits of this approach, and the lessons learned are 
      highlighted. CONCLUSIONS: PAIR was developed out of a need identified jointly by 
      community members and researchers, and is intended to characterize the range of 
      relationships between researchers and community members engaging in 
      community-based research and programming.
FAU - Arora, Prerna G
AU  - Arora PG
FAU - Krumholz, Lauren S
AU  - Krumholz LS
FAU - Guerra, Terry
AU  - Guerra T
FAU - Leff, Stephen S
AU  - Leff SS
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Prog Community Health Partnersh
JT  - Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action
JID - 101273946
SB  - IM
MH  - Communication
MH  - Community-Based Participatory Research/*organization & administration/standards
MH  - *Community-Institutional Relations
MH  - Cooperative Behavior
MH  - Humans
MH  - Program Evaluation/*methods/standards
MH  - Universities/*organization & administration
EDAT- 2015/12/08 06:00
MHDA- 2016/02/03 06:00
CRDT- 2015/12/08 06:00
PHST- 2015/12/08 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/12/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/02/03 06:00 [medline]
AID - S1557055X15400117 [pii]
AID - 10.1353/cpr.2015.0077 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2015 Winter;9(4):549-60. doi: 
      10.1353/cpr.2015.0077.