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）是一种有效的方法来检查和 为了解决社会和健康不平等问题，美国出现了社区-学术伙伴关系的激增 在过去的十年里。基于社区的参与式研究（CBPR），作为一种CEnR方法，强调 学术界和社区成员之间的公平伙伴关系，以解决紧迫的社区健康问题 问题.这些伙伴关系的一个基本假设是， 和条件将导致成功的长期维护，实现目标，并改善 健康成果。然而，尽管对CBPR伙伴关系抱有这种期望，但很少有经验证据， 已有标准化的衡量标准，可用来界定伙伴关系成功的含义以及有助于实现伙伴关系成功的因素。 成功建立长期的CBPR伙伴关系。这项为期五年的研究的目的是为了响应国家 护理研究所（NINR）呼吁为CEnR努力创造创新措施， 弥补这一差距。在以色列及其同事工作的基础上，并与社区和 CBPR的学术专家，我们将制定一个明确的定义CBPR伙伴关系的成功，开发一个工具， “伙伴关系成功的衡量办法”，衡量中期和长期 与CBPR伙伴关系成功相关的因素，用55个长期的CBPR测试该工具 美国各地的合作伙伴，建立反馈机制，以了解工具的结果，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）明确界定 CBPR伙伴关系的成功，并开发一个工具（MAPS），以评估伙伴关系的成功及其中期和中期 在长期的CBPR伙伴关系的长期贡献因素; 2）测试的心理素质， MAPS工具在一个存在6年或更长时间的长期CBPR伙伴关系的样本中;以及3）开发 反馈和应用伙伴关系评价结果的机制，并广泛传播MAPS工具 和反馈机制。

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.