Frontiers in Public Health – PHENND https://phennd.org We are a network of over 25 colleges and universities that strengthens service learning in Philadelphia, connecting academics with community involvement. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:59:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 A short pragmatic tool for evaluating community engagement: Partnering for Health Improvement and Research Equity https://phennd.org/update/a-short-pragmatic-tool-for-evaluating-community-engagement-partnering-for-health-improvement-and-research-equity/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:59:27 +0000 https://phennd.org/?post_type=update&p=86291 As community-engaged research (CEnR), community-based participatory research (CBPR) and patient-engaged research (PEnR) have become increasingly recognized as valued research approaches in the last several decades, there is need for pragmatic and validated tools to assess effective partnering practices that contribute to health and health equity outcomes.

While many systematic reviews have identified a range of impacts of engagement practices on outcomes, the science of creating strong, reliable, and valid measurements has lagged. With increasing National Institutes of Health (NIH) and foundation funding mandates for community-academic partnerships, even more important is having pragmatic instruments that can serve as evaluation or collective reflection opportunities to strengthen partnership capacities to achieve desired outcomes.

This article reports on the co-creation of an actionable pragmatic survey, shortened from validated metrics of partnership practices and outcomes.

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