TY - JOUR T1 - Measuring Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: The Initial Development of an Assessment Instrument. AU - Arora,Prerna G, AU - Krumholz,Lauren S, AU - Guerra,Terry, AU - Leff,Stephen S, PY - 2015/12/8/entrez PY - 2015/12/8/pubmed PY - 2016/2/3/medline SP - 549 EP - 60 JF - Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action JO - Prog Community Health Partnersh VL - 9 IS - 4 N2 - 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. SN - 1557-0541 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/26639381/Measuring_Community_Based_Participatory_Research_Partnerships:_The_Initial_Development_of_an_Assessment_Instrument_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -