A short pragmatic tool for evaluating community engagement: Partnering for Health Improvement and Research Equity
Posted by Frontiers in Public Health on August 5, 2025
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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