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Structural Community Governance: Importance for Community‐Academic Research Partnerships
Author(s) -
SanchezYoungman Shan,
Boursaw Blake,
Oetzel John,
Kastellic Sara,
Devia Carlos,
Scarpetta Maia,
Belone Lorenda,
Wallerstein Nina
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1002/ajcp.12505
Subject(s) - corporate governance , participatory action research , community psychology , public relations , psychological intervention , sociology , general partnership , collective efficacy , empowerment , conceptual framework , political science , psychology , social psychology , business , social science , finance , psychiatry , anthropology , law
Community based participatory research (CBPR) emphasizes democratic knowledge production and joint action between academics and communities to promote health equity through multilevel interventions. While much scholarship has expressed a commitment to collaboration between researchers and communities, effective methods of structural governance between community and academic stakeholders is under explored. We fill this gap by presenting a conceptual and empirical analysis describing multiple dimensions of structural governance in CBPR partnerships. First, we integrate public policy evidence on effective collaborative governance designs with the emerging literature in CBPR to create a conceptual model. Next, we utilize internet surveys of 179 federally funded community engaged research projects to construct and assess a measure of structural governance across multiple dimensions using confirmatory factor analysis. We explore whether antecedent factors such as the stage of the partnership and ethnic composition are associated with these dimensions and we examine associations for each of these components on positive perceptions of community involvement of research and collective empowerment. We develop a robust multidimensional measure of structural governance that is positively associated with perceptions of increased community involvement in research and collective empowerment.