Brush Barbara L, Baiardi Janet M, Lapides Sharon
University of Michigan School of Nursing, MI, USA.
Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2011 Spring;5(1):27-34. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2011.0003.
Community-academic partnerships are an increasingly popular approach to addressing community health problems and engaging vulnerable populations in research. Despite these altruistic foci, however, partnerships often struggle with fundamental issues that thwart sustainability, effectiveness, and efficiency.
We adapted a synergy-promoting model to guide the development and evaluation of a community-academic partnership and share lessons learned along the way.
We analyzed the partnership process over time to determine the interaction of trust, collaboration, and engagement in creating partnership synergy and promoting sustainability.
Few community-academic partnerships use a conscious and systematic approach to guide and evaluate their progress. We argue that this is an important first step in creating a partnership, sustaining a milieu of open dialogue, and developing strategies that promote trust and equalize power dynamics. Still, as we learned, the best laid plans can go awry, challenging partnership synergy throughout its lifespan.
社区-学术伙伴关系是解决社区健康问题并让弱势群体参与研究的一种越来越受欢迎的方法。然而,尽管有这些利他主义的关注点,但伙伴关系常常在一些基本问题上挣扎,这些问题阻碍了可持续性、有效性和效率。
我们采用了一种促进协同作用的模型来指导社区-学术伙伴关系的发展和评估,并分享在此过程中学到的经验教训。
我们随着时间推移分析伙伴关系过程,以确定信任、协作和参与在创造伙伴关系协同作用及促进可持续性方面的相互作用。
很少有社区-学术伙伴关系采用有意识的系统方法来指导和评估其进展。我们认为这是建立伙伴关系、维持开放对话环境以及制定促进信任和平衡权力动态的策略的重要第一步。不过,正如我们所了解到的,即使是最周密的计划也可能出错,在伙伴关系的整个生命周期中对其协同作用构成挑战。