6–10 Jun 2022
Tübingen
Europe/Berlin timezone

Measurement instruments for community member participation in health promotion research: Preliminary results from a systematic review

Speakers

Raluca Sommer Maike Till Peter Gelius Alexandra Sauter Anne Reimers

Description

Objectives
Community participation is a key principle in health promotion, but measuring the extent, type and quality of citizens’ engagement in research projects is often difficult. Therefore, this study aims to provide a systematic overview of existing measurement instruments, their scope and dimensions.

Methods
The review follows the PRISMA guidelines. Twelve scientific databases were searched from inception to June 2021 to identify English or German scientific journal articles. Search terms represented assessment, measurement, concept of participation, engagement, involvement, and terms related to action research, community-based research, and collaboration science.

Findings
Our search resulted in 20,682 hits across all databases. After removing duplicates, 12,267 articles were independently screened by two researchers on title/abstract. Overall, 26 articles were included for full-text screening. At present, two independent researchers are extracting data on the development of instruments and their psychometric properties. Included articles will be further assessed regarding their origin quality and development appraisal, and their measurement properties based on COSMIN checklist.

Discussion
Preliminary results suggest that the articles included in the full-text analysis present a broad variety of instruments to assess participation. Most tools are based on different principles for community-based participatory research, and aim to predict the success of community-academic partnerships for health promotion.

Conclusion
Our review on standardized tools for measuring participation offers a resource to assist the evaluation of community-academic partnerships and to gain a comprehensive understanding on how community members engage in health promotion research.

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