Interactive CBPR Research Model and Measures Please cite as: C Pearson, B Duran, D Martin, J Lucero, J Sandoval, J Oetzel, G Tafoya, L Belone, M Avila, N Wallerstein, & S Hicks (2011) CBPR Variable Matrix: Research for improved health in academic- community partnerships From: NARCH V (Indian Health Service/NIGMS/NIH U261HS300293 2009-2013), a partnership between the National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center (Hicks, PI); the University of New Mexico Center for Participatory Research (Wallerstein, PI); the University of Washington Indigenous Research Institute (Duran, PI); and CBPR projects nationwide Since 2009, the University of New Mexico Center for Participatory Research, University of Washington Indigenous Wellness Research Institute, and National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center have collaborated as investigators to better understand how Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) works to improve health and health equity Their NIH project, “Research for Improved Health: A National Study of Community-Academic Partnerships,” funded for 2009-2013,3 aims: 1) to better understand CBPR practice variability across contexts, conditions and populations, including American Indian/Alaska Native communities, communities of color and others which face health disparities; 2) to identify promoters and inhibitors of CBPR partnership success; 3) to better understand CBPR pathways and promising partnership practices that lead to improved health status; and 4) to further develop appropriate research/evaluation measurement tools and methods to assess CBPR partnership effectiveness This grant was based on a three year pilot, started in 2006 4, with a national advisory group of academic and community CBPR experts to create a conceptual logic model and research design Our collaborative team is now pleased to share a web-based tool allowing community and academic investigators to interact with the CBPR Conceptual Research Model, which is linked to CBPR instruments and measures from the literature The Interactive CBPR Conceptual Model is available as a tool allowing users to download surveys (instruments) and individual items measures (variables) with associated information useful for evaluating CBPR partnerships and assessing partnership characteristics Please visit the web link to learn more about our Interactive – CBPR Conceptual Model http://hsc.unm.edu/som/fcm/cpr/cbprmodel.shtml Also Available: Abstract for “Process and Outcome Constructs for Evaluating Community Based Participatory Research Projects: A Matrix of Existing Measures and Measurement Tools” by J Sandoval, J Lucero, J Oetzel, M Avila, L Belone, M Mau, C Pearson, G Tafoya, & N Wallerstein (under review by Health Education Research) http://hsc.unm.edu/SOM/fcm/cpr/cbprmodel/Instruments/CBPR-InteractiveModel/CBPRInstrumentsMatrix/InstrumentsMatrix abstract.pdf 2009-2013 funding was provided by the Native American Research Centers for Health, a partnership between the National Institute of General Medical Science and the Indian Health Service, with funding partners, National Center for Research Resources, National Institute for Drug Abuse, and Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (US26IHS300009A; PI: Hicks, S., Duran, B & Wallerstein, N.) 2006-2009 pilot funding was provided by the National Institute for Minority Health & Health Disparities (PI: Wallerstein & Duran)