PMID- 31350725
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200727
LR  - 20231020
IS  - 1468-2869 (Electronic)
IS  - 1099-3460 (Print)
IS  - 1099-3460 (Linking)
VI  - 96
IP  - 6
DP  - 2019 Dec
TI  - Assessing Research Activity and Capacity of Community-Based Organizations: 
      Refinement of the CREAT Instrument Using the Delphi Method.
PG  - 912-922
LID - 10.1007/s11524-019-00374-0 [doi]
AB  - Community-based organizations (CBOs) are essential partners in community-engaged 
      research, yet little is known about their research capacity. Community experts 
      and organizations bring unique knowledge of the community to research 
      partnerships, but standard validated measures of CBO research capacity do not yet 
      exist. We report here on the refinement through a structured Delphi panel of a 
      previously developed and piloted framework of CBO research capacity and an 
      accompanying instrument, the Community REsearch Activity Assessment Tool (CREAT). 
      A Delphi panel composed of twenty-three experts recruited from community (52%) 
      and academic researchers (48%) from around the USA participated in five rounds of 
      review to establish consensus regarding framework domains, operational 
      definitions, and tool items. Panelists rated the importance of items on a 5-point 
      Likert scale and assessed for the inclusion and language of items. Initial rounds 
      of review began with reviewing the framework and definitions, with subsequent 
      rounds including review of the full instrument. Concluding rounds brought back 
      items that had not yet reached consensus for additional review. Median response 
      values (MRV) and intra-quartile ranges (IQR) were calculated for each Likert 
      item. Items with an MRV > 3.5 were deemed as having reached consensus and were 
      retained. Language changes were made for items with MRV > 2.0 and < 3.5 and an 
      IQR > 1.5. Items with MRV < 2.0 were excluded from the final tool. Panelist 
      response rate was high (> 75%). Consensus was achieved for the inclusion of all 
      domains, subdomains and operational definitions except "evidence-based 
      practices." Extensive changes to the CREAT instrument were made for 
      clarification, to provide additional detail and to ensure applicability for CBOs. 
      The CREAT framework and tool was refined through input from community and 
      academic researchers. Availability of a validated tool to assess research 
      capacity of CBOs will support targeted research capacity building for community 
      organizations and partners, thus strengthening collaborations.
FAU - Humphries, Debbie
AU  - Humphries D
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5979-3717
AD  - Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA. debbie.humphries@yale.edu.
AD  - New Haven Healthy Start Program, Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, New 
      Haven, CT, USA. debbie.humphries@yale.edu.
FAU - Ma, Maria
AU  - Ma M
AD  - Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
FAU - Collins, Nicole
AU  - Collins N
AD  - Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
FAU - Ray, Natasha
AU  - Ray N
AD  - New Haven Healthy Start Program, Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, New 
      Haven, CT, USA.
FAU - Wat, Eric
AU  - Wat E
AD  - Special Services for Groups, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
FAU - Bazelon, Jill
AU  - Bazelon J
AD  - Investing in Ourselves, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
FAU - Pettinelli, Jim
AU  - Pettinelli J
AD  - Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), New Haven, CT, USA.
FAU - Fiellin, David A
AU  - Fiellin DA
AD  - Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
AD  - Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), New Haven, CT, USA.
AD  - Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
LA  - eng
GR  - UL1 TR000142/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
GR  - UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - J Urban Health
JT  - Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
JID - 9809909
SB  - IM
MH  - Capacity Building/*standards/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Community-Based Participatory Research/*standards/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Delphi Technique
MH  - *Guidelines as Topic
MH  - Humans
MH  - Research Design
PMC - PMC6904697
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Capacity building/organization and administration
OT  - Community-based participatory research/organization and administration
OT  - Cooperative behavior
OT  - Data collection/methods
EDAT- 2019/07/28 06:00
MHDA- 2020/07/28 06:00
PMCR- 2020/12/01
CRDT- 2019/07/28 06:00
PHST- 2019/07/28 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/07/28 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/07/28 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/12/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1007/s11524-019-00374-0 [pii]
AID - 374 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11524-019-00374-0 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Urban Health. 2019 Dec;96(6):912-922. doi: 10.1007/s11524-019-00374-0.