Defining and Measuring Community Engagement and Community-Engaged Research: Clinical and Translational Science Institutional Practices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The institutions that comprise the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) consortium and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences continue to explore and develop community-engaged research strategies and to study the role of community academic partnerships in advancing the science of community engagement.

Objectives

To explore CTSA institutions in relation to an Institute of Medicine recommendation that community engagement occur in all stages of translational research and be defined and evaluated consistently.

Methods

A sequential multimethods study starting with an online pilot survey followed by survey respondents and site informant interviews. A revised survey was sent to the community engagement and evaluation leads at each CTS

SUBMITTER: Eder MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6237095 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature