# Measuring Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS)

> **NIH NIH R01** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2020 · $543,989

## Abstract

ABSTRACT:
With growing recognition that community engaged research (CEnR) is a valid approach to examine and
address social and health inequities, the U.S. has seen a proliferation of community-academic partnerships
over the past decade. Community-based participatory research (CBPR), as one CEnR approach, emphasizes
equitable partnerships between academic and community members to address pressing community health
issues. An underlying assumption in these partnerships is that attention to appropriate processes, structures,
and conditions will lead to success in long-term maintenance, achievement of goals, and improvement of
health outcomes. However, despite this expectation for CBPR partnerships, little empirical evidence and few
standardized measures exist to define the meaning of partnership success and the factors that contribute to
success in long-standing CBPR partnerships. The purpose of this five-year study, in response to the National
Institute of Nursing Research's (NINR) call for the creation of innovative measures for CEnR efforts, is to
address this gap. Building upon the work of Israel and colleagues, and in collaboration with community and
academic experts in CBPR, we will develop a clear definition of CBPR partnership success, develop a tool,
“Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success” (MAPS), that measures the intermediate and long-term
factors that are associated with CBPR partnership success, test the tool with 55 long-standing CBPR
partnerships across the U.S., develop feedback mechanisms for understanding the results of the tool, and
disseminate the tool and feedback mechanism for broader use. Our specific aims are to: 1) clearly define
CBPR partnership success and develop a tool (MAPS) to assess partnership success and its intermediate and
long-term contributing factors in long-standing CBPR partnerships; 2) test the psychometric qualities of the
MAPS tool in a sample of long-standing CBPR partnerships existing 6 years and longer; and 3) develop
mechanisms to feed back and apply partnership evaluation findings, and widely disseminate the MAPS tool
and feedback mechanism in a readily accessible and usable format.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9935167
- **Project number:** 5R01NR016123-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** BARBARA L. BRUSH
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $543,989
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-08-12 → 2022-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9935167

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9935167, Measuring Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS) (5R01NR016123-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9935167. Licensed CC0.

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