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Brush BL, Lee SYD, Gabrysiak A, Jensen M, Wilson-Powers E, Coombe CM, Paul Chandanabhumma P, Valerio M, Israel BA, Lachance L. A CBPR-Enhanced Delphi Method: The Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success Case Study. Health Educ Behav 2024; 51:212-217. [PMID: 35189738 PMCID: PMC10040148 DOI: 10.1177/10901981221076400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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As part of a 5-year study to develop and validate an instrument for measuring success in long-standing community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships, we utilized the Delphi method with a panel of 16 community and academic CBPR experts to assess face and content validity of the instrument's broad concepts of success and measurement items. In addition to incorporating quantitative and qualitative feedback from two online surveys, we included a 2-day face-to-face meeting with the Expert Panel to invite open discussion and diversity of opinion in line with the CBPR principles framing and guiding the study. The face-to-face meeting allowed experts to review the survey data (with maintained anonymity), convey their perspectives, and offer interpretations that were untapped in the online surveys. Using a CBPR approach facilitated a synergistic process that moved above and beyond the consensus achieved in the initial Delphi rounds, to enhance the Delphi technique and the development of items in the instrument.
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, Houston, TX
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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Lachance L, Brush BL, Mentz G, Lee SYD, Chandanabhumma PP, Coombe CM, DeMajo R, Gabrysiak A, Jensen M, Reyes AG, Rowe Z, Schulz AJ, Wilson-Powers E, Israel BA. Validation of the Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS) Questionnaire. Health Educ Behav 2024; 51:218-228. [PMID: 38083870 DOI: 10.1177/10901981231213352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/02/2024]
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Conceptualizing and testing factors that contribute to the success of community-academic partnerships are critical to understanding their contributions to the health and well-being of communities. Most measures to date focus on factors that contribute to the development of new partnerships, and only a few have been adequately tested and validated. Methods. The Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS) study followed a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach and a multiphase process that included the construction and pilot testing of a questionnaire, and a national survey to validate the psychometric properties of the questionnaire in long-standing CBPR partnerships (existing ≥ six years). All members within partnerships were recruited to complete the survey (55 partnerships with 563 partners). We used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), Cronbach's alpha statistics, and a pairwise correlations approach to assess discriminant and convergent validity, and assessed internal consistency, and test-retest reliability. Results. All MAPS Questionnaire dimensions demonstrated strong validity and reliability and demonstrated agreement over time. Conclusion. The MAPS Questionnaire includes seven dimensions and 81 items related to the MAPS conceptual model and provides a scientific, in-depth measurement tool that allows long-standing CBPR partnerships to evaluate their work toward achieving health equity.
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- Laurie Lachance
- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- University of Michigan School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesia, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation, Detroit, MI, USA
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Wilson-Powers E, Jensen M, Gabrysiak A, Brush BL, Coombe CM, Israel B, Lee SYD, Richmond A, Lachance L. Using a CBPR Approach to Guide Successful Recruitment for an Online Questionnaire: The Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS) Case Study. Health Promot Pract 2023:15248399231211532. [PMID: 37981755 DOI: 10.1177/15248399231211532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2023]
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The Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS) study team effectively used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to recruit 55 long-standing CBPR partnerships to participate in an online questionnaire to assess factors associated with partnership success. Our recruitment was guided by interconnected values of collaboration, transparency, and relationship-building to maintain fidelity to CBPR principles throughout the process. We operationalized these values into a series of strategies to recruit partnerships and sustain their involvement, including establishing primary points of contact, offering incentives for completion, personalizing recruitment materials, and practicing flexibility in our approach. We aim to inform public health researchers on the strategies that enabled our team to achieve 100% of our study recruitment goal, with the intent that our recommendations can be applied by others to enhance their recruitment efforts and reach their data collection goals for future public health research.
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- University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, USA
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- University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, USA
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- University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, USA
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- University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, USA
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- Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, USA
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Brush BL, Israel B, Coombe CM, Lee SYD, Jensen M, Wilson-Powers E, Gabrysiak A, Chandanabhumma PP, Baker E, Jones M, Lachance L. The Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS) Questionnaire and Facilitation Guide: A Validated Measure of CBPR Partnership Success. Health Promot Pract 2023:15248399231206088. [PMID: 37846092 DOI: 10.1177/15248399231206088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2023]
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Partnerships that effectively engage in certain key structural and process functions are more likely to meet their research goals and contribute to longer-term health equity outcomes. Ongoing evaluation of partnerships' level of achievement of these key functions, along with their fidelity to the guiding principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR), is therefore essential to understand how they can achieve desired partnership outcomes. This article describes the validated Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS) Questionnaire and the use of an accompanying Facilitation Guide in helping members of CBPR partnerships evaluate their partnership's state of development and interpret findings to improve its structure, processes, and outcomes. We describe the conceptual framework guiding the development of the MAPS Questionnaire and its 81-item across seven key outcome dimensions, along with 28 items measuring precursor characteristics of CBPR partnership outcomes. The Facilitation Guide provides general guidelines for sharing, interpreting, and applying results within partnerships using a participatory process, definitions and items for each dimension, an example of presenting summary means, and dimension-specific reflective questions for discussion. We offer recommendations for practical uses of the MAPS Questionnaire and Facilitation Guide. Whether used as a comprehensive tool or by dimension, the MAPS Questionnaire is conceptually sound and empirically validated for evaluating how CBPR partnerships can achieve long-standing success. CBPR partnerships at any stage of development will find the MAPS Questionnaire and Facilitation Guide useful in measuring and interpreting indicators of partnership success, sharing results, and improving their ability to contribute to achieving health equity goals.
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- Barbara L Brush
- University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Healthy Native Communities Partnership, Inc., Shiprock, NM, USA
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Chandanabhumma PP, Gabrysiak A, Brush BL, Coombe CM, Eng E, Jensen M, Lachance L, Shepard P, Wallerstein NB, Israel BA. Cultivating an Ecosystem: A Qualitative Exploration of Sustainability in Long-Standing Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships. Prog Community Health Partnersh 2023; 17:e5. [PMID: 37934431 PMCID: PMC10651163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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Background: While sustainability is crucial to the success of community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships, there is a lack of conceptual clarity on what defines sustainability and what characterizes sustainability-promoting practices in long-standing (in existence ≥ 6 years) CBPR partnerships. Objectives: The aim of this article is to explore the definition of sustainability, as well as practices that influence sustainability from the perspectives of academic and community experts in long-standing CBPR partnerships. Methods: This qualitative analysis is part of Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS), a participatory mixed methods validity study that examined “success” and its contributing factors in long-standing CBPR partnerships. Thematic analysis of 21 semi-structured interviews was conducted, including 10 academic and 11 community experts of long-standing CBPR partnerships. Results: The key defining components of sustainability we identified include: distinguishing between sustaining the work of the partnership and ongoing relationships among partners; working towards a common goal over time; and enduring changes that impact the partnership. We further identified strengthening and capacity building practices at multiple levels of the partnership that served to promote the sustainability of the partnership’s work and of ongoing relationships among partners. Conclusions: Sustainability can be understood as supporting an ecosystem that surrounds the beneficial relationships between academic and community partners. Ongoing evaluation and application of practices that promote the sustainability of partnership activities and relationships may strengthen the long-term effectiveness of CBPR partnerships in advancing health equity.
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Center for Participatory Research, College of Population Health, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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Chandanabhumma PP, Gabrysiak A, Brush BL, Coombe CM, Eng E, Jensen M, Lachance L, Shepard P, Wallerstein NB, Israel BA. Cultivating an ecosystem: A qualitative exploration of sustainability in long-standing community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships. Prog Community Health Partnersh 2023; 17:e5. [PMID: 38062914 PMCID: PMC10651163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Background While sustainability is crucial to the success of community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships, there is a lack of conceptual clarity on what defines sustainability and what characterizes sustainability-promoting practices in long-standing (in existence ≥ 6 years) CBPR partnerships. Objectives The aim of this article is to explore the definition of sustainability, as well as practices that influence sustainability from the perspectives of academic and community experts in long-standing CBPR partnerships. Methods This qualitative analysis is part of Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS), a participatory mixed methods validity study that examined "success" and its contributing factors in long-standing CBPR partnerships. Thematic analysis of 21 semi-structured interviews was conducted, including 10 academic and 11 community experts of long-standing CBPR partnerships. Results The key defining components of sustainability we identified include: distinguishing between sustaining the work of the partnership and ongoing relationships among partners; working towards a common goal over time; and enduring changes that impact the partnership. We further identified strengthening and capacity building practices at multiple levels of the partnership that served to promote the sustainability of the partnership's work and of ongoing relationships among partners. Conclusions Sustainability can be understood as supporting an ecosystem that surrounds the beneficial relationships between academic and community partners. Ongoing evaluation and application of practices that promote the sustainability of partnership activities and relationships may strengthen the long-term effectiveness of CBPR partnerships in advancing health equity.
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Center for Participatory Research, College of Population Health, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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Chandanabhumma PP, Gabrysiak A, Brush BL, Coombe CM, Eng E, Jensen M, Lachance L, Shepard P, Wallerstein NB, Israel BA. Cultivating an Ecosystem: A Qualitative Exploration of Sustainability in Long-Standing Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships. Prog Community Health Partnersh 2023; 17:393-404. [PMID: 37934438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND While sustainability is crucial to the success of community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships, there is a lack of conceptual clarity on what defines sustainability and what characterizes sustainability-promoting practices in long-standing (in existence 6 years or longer) CBPR partnerships. OBJECTIVES The aim of this article is to explore the definition of sustainability, as well as practices that influence sustainability from the perspectives of academic and community experts in long-standing CBPR partnerships. METHODS This qualitative analysis is part of Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success, a participatory mixed methods validity study that examined "success" and its contributing factors in long-standing CBPR partnerships. Thematic analysis of 21 semistructured interviews was conducted, including 10 academic and 11 community experts of long-standing CBPR partnerships. RESULTS The key defining components of sustainability we identified include: distinguishing between sustaining the work of the partnership and ongoing relationships among partners; working towards a common goal over time; and enduring changes that impact the partnership. We further identified strengthening and capacity building practices at multiple levels of the partnership that served to promote the sustainability of the partnership's work and of ongoing relationships among partners. CONCLUSIONS Sustainability can be understood as supporting an ecosystem that surrounds the beneficial relationships between academic and community partners. Ongoing evaluation and application of practices that promote the sustainability of partnership activities and relationships may strengthen the long-term effectiveness of CBPR partnerships in advancing health equity.
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Chandanabhumma PP, Gabrysiak A, Brush BL, Coombe CM, Eng E, Jensen M, Lachance L, Shepard P, Wallerstein NB, Israel BA. Cultivating an Ecosystem: A Qualitative Exploration of Sustainability in Long-Standing Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships. Prog Community Health Partnersh 2023; 17:e5. [PMID: 38682363 PMCID: PMC10651163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
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Background: While sustainability is crucial to the success of community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships, there is a lack of conceptual clarity on what defines sustainability and what characterizes sustainability-promoting practices in long-standing (in existence ≥ 6 years) CBPR partnerships. Objectives: The aim of this article is to explore the definition of sustainability, as well as practices that influence sustainability from the perspectives of academic and community experts in long-standing CBPR partnerships. Methods: This qualitative analysis is part of Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS), a participatory mixed methods validity study that examined “success” and its contributing factors in long-standing CBPR partnerships. Thematic analysis of 21 semi-structured interviews was conducted, including 10 academic and 11 community experts of long-standing CBPR partnerships. Results: The key defining components of sustainability we identified include: distinguishing between sustaining the work of the partnership and ongoing relationships among partners; working towards a common goal over time; and enduring changes that impact the partnership. We further identified strengthening and capacity building practices at multiple levels of the partnership that served to promote the sustainability of the partnership’s work and of ongoing relationships among partners. Conclusions: Sustainability can be understood as supporting an ecosystem that surrounds the beneficial relationships between academic and community partners. Ongoing evaluation and application of practices that promote the sustainability of partnership activities and relationships may strengthen the long-term effectiveness of CBPR partnerships in advancing health equity.
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Center for Participatory Research, College of Population Health, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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