title: Process and outcome constructs for evaluating community-based participatory research projects: a matrix of existing measures.
abstract: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been widely used in public health research in the last decade as an approach to develop culturally centered interventions and collaborative research processes in which communities are directly involved in the construction and implementation of these interventions and in other application of findings. Little is known, however, about CBPR pathways of change and how these academic-community collaborations may contribute to successful outcomes. A new health CBPR conceptual model (Wallerstein N, Oetzel JG, Duran B et al. CBPR: What predicts outcomes? In: Minkler M, Wallerstein N (eds). Communication Based Participatory Research, 2nd edn. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Co., 2008) suggests that relationships between four components: context, group dynamics, the extent of community-centeredness in intervention and/or research design and the impact of these participatory processes on CBPR system change and health outcomes. This article seeks to identify instruments and measures in a comprehensive literature review that relates to these distinct components of the CBPR model and to present them in an organized and indexed format for researcher use. Specifically, 258 articles were identified in a review of CBPR (and related) literature from 2002 to 2008. Based on this review and from recommendations of a national advisory board, 46 CBPR instruments were identified and each was reviewed and coded using the CBPR logic model. The 46 instruments yielded 224 individual measures of characteristics in the CBPR model. While this study does not investigate the quality of the instruments, it does provide information about reliability and validity for specific measures. Group dynamics proved to have the largest number of identified measures, while context and CBPR system and health outcomes had the least. Consistent with other summaries of instruments, such as Granner and Sharpe's inventory (Granner ML, Sharpe PA. Evaluating community coalition characteristics and functioning: a summary of measurement tools. Health Educ Res 2004; 19: 514-32), validity and reliability information were often lacking, and one or both were only available for 65 of the 224 measures. This summary of measures provides a place to start for new and continuing partnerships seeking to evaluate their progress.
authors.affiliation: University of Central Florida, Nicholson School of Communication, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sandoval
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lucero
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oetzel
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Avila
authors.forename: Lorenda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Belone
authors.forename: Marjorie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mau
authors.forename: Cynthia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pearson
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tafoya
authors.forename: Bonnie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Duran
authors.forename: Lisbeth
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Iglesias Rios
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wallerstein
mesh_terms: D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000592:standards*; D005544:Forecasting; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design