Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Clin Transl Sci. 2014 Feb;7(1):38-43. doi: 10.1111/cts.12125. Epub 2013 Nov 6.
The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program has highlighted community engagement in research by requiring institutions to develop bidirectional relationships with communities to obtain funding. Little is known about how institutions have operationalized that requirement. This study aimed to describe the strategies proposed by the first institutions to receive CTSA funding and to undergo the CTSA renewal process.
The authors conducted a qualitative document analysis of the community engagement section of 12 original and 10 renewal grant applications of the 12 institutions awarded CTSA funding in 2006 and renewed in 2010.
Institutions employed - and research engagement strategies. Capacity-building strategies included education, pilot grants, connecting potential partners, and community research centers. Research engagement strategies ranged from those that allowed for very little input from communities, such as announcements, to those that allowed for a high amount of input from communities, such as community-researcher teams.
CTSA funding has supported capacity-building for institutions and communities to partner. Engagement strategies employed by the institutions are largely known from prior community-engaged research. Based on the grants from these institutions, the CTSA funding has largely enabled institutions to develop capacity to engage.
临床与转化科学奖（CTSA）计划强调了社区参与研究，要求机构与社区建立双向关系以获得资金。对于机构如何实施这一要求，人们知之甚少。本研究旨在描述首批获得 CTSA 资助并经历 CTSA 续签过程的机构提出的策略。
作者对 2006 年获得 CTSA 资助并于 2010 年续签的 12 家机构的 12 份原始和 10 份续签拨款申请中的社区参与部分进行了定性文件分析。
机构采用了多种社区参与策略。能力建设策略包括教育、试点拨款、联系潜在合作伙伴和社区研究中心。研究参与策略范围从允许社区很少参与的策略，如公告，到允许社区大量参与的策略，如社区研究员团队。
CTSA 资助支持了机构和社区合作的能力建设。机构采用的参与策略在很大程度上是从先前的社区参与研究中得知的。基于这些机构的拨款，CTSA 资助在很大程度上使机构有能力参与。
