Measuring Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS)

摘要： 随着越来越多的人认识到社区参与研究(Cenr)是检查和 在解决社会和健康不平等问题上，美国看到了社区和学术合作的激增 在过去的十年里。基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)作为cenr的一种方法，强调 学术和社区成员之间平等的伙伴关系，以解决紧迫的社区卫生问题 问题。这些伙伴关系的一个基本假设是，对适当的进程、结构、 和条件将导致成功的长期维护，实现目标，并改善 健康结果。然而，尽管对CBPR伙伴关系抱有这样的期望，但几乎没有经验证据，几乎没有 有标准化的衡量标准来界定伙伴关系成功的含义和有助于 在CBPR长期合作伙伴关系方面取得成功。这项为期五年的研究的目的是为了回应国家 护理研究所(NINR)呼吁为cenr努力创造创新措施，是 弥补这一差距。在以色列和同事工作的基础上，并与社区和 在CBPR的学术专家中，我们将制定一个明确的CBPR伙伴关系成功的定义，开发一个工具， “伙伴关系成功的衡量方法”(MAP)，衡量中期和长期 与CBPR合作伙伴关系成功相关的因素，用55个长期存在的CBPR测试该工具 在美国各地建立合作伙伴关系，制定反馈机制以了解该工具的结果，以及 传播该工具和反馈机制，以便更广泛地使用。我们的具体目标是：1)明确定义 CBPR伙伴关系的成功，并开发一个工具(地图)来评估伙伴关系的成功及其中间和 在长期的CBPR伙伴关系中的长期促成因素；2)测试 在存在6年或更长时间的长期CBPR伙伴关系样本中使用地图工具；和3)制定 反馈和应用伙伴关系评价结果的机制，并广泛传播地图工具 并以易于访问和使用的格式提供反馈机制。

ABSTRACT: With growing recognition that community engaged research (CEnR) is a valid approach to examine and address social and health inequities, the U.S. has seen a proliferation of community-academic partnerships over the past decade. Community-based participatory research (CBPR), as one CEnR approach, emphasizes equitable partnerships between academic and community members to address pressing community health issues. An underlying assumption in these partnerships is that attention to appropriate processes, structures, and conditions will lead to success in long-term maintenance, achievement of goals, and improvement of health outcomes. However, despite this expectation for CBPR partnerships, little empirical evidence and few standardized measures exist to define the meaning of partnership success and the factors that contribute to success in long-standing CBPR partnerships. The purpose of this five-year study, in response to the National Institute of Nursing Research's (NINR) call for the creation of innovative measures for CEnR efforts, is to address this gap. Building upon the work of Israel and colleagues, and in collaboration with community and academic experts in CBPR, we will develop a clear definition of CBPR partnership success, develop a tool, “Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success” (MAPS), that measures the intermediate and long-term factors that are associated with CBPR partnership success, test the tool with 55 long-standing CBPR partnerships across the U.S., develop feedback mechanisms for understanding the results of the tool, and disseminate the tool and feedback mechanism for broader use. Our specific aims are to: 1) clearly define CBPR partnership success and develop a tool (MAPS) to assess partnership success and its intermediate and long-term contributing factors in long-standing CBPR partnerships; 2) test the psychometric qualities of the MAPS tool in a sample of long-standing CBPR partnerships existing 6 years and longer; and 3) develop mechanisms to feed back and apply partnership evaluation findings, and widely disseminate the MAPS tool and feedback mechanism in a readily accessible and usable format.