Report on CTSA Consortium Use of the Community Engagement Consulting Service

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• Alternative Title:
  Clin Transl Sci
• Personal Author:
  Carter-Edwards, Lori ; Cook, Jennifer L. ; McDonald, Mary Anne ; Weaver, Sarah M. ; Chukwuka, Kemi ; Eder, Milton “Mickey”
• Description:
  INTRODUCTION
  
  The CTSA Community Engagement Consultative Service (CECS) is a national partnership designed to improve community engaged research (CEnR) through expert consultation. This report assesses the feasibility of CECS and presents findings from 2008–2009.
  
  METHODOLOGY
  
  A coordinating center and five regional coordinating sites managed the service. CTSAs identified a primary pre-visit CE best practice for consultants to address and completed self-assessments, post-visit evaluations, and action plans. Feasibility was assessed as the percent of CTSAs participating and completing evaluations. Frequencies were calculated for evaluation responses.
  
  RESULTS
  
  Of the 38 CTSAs, 36 (95%) completed a self-assessment. Of these 36 sites, 83%, 53%, and 44% completed a consultant visit, evaluation, and action plan, respectively, and 56% of the consultants completed an evaluation. The most common best practice identified pre-visit was improvement in CEnR (addressing outcomes that matter); however, relationship building with communities was most commonly addressed during consulting visits. Although 90% of the consultants were very confident sites could develop an action plan, only 35% were very confident in the CTSAs’ abilities to implement one.
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  
  Academic medical centers interested in collaborating with communities and translating research to improve health need to further develop their capacity for CE and CEnR within their institutions.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Geography Humans Referral And Consultation Research Report Residence Characteristics Social Welfare Translational Research, Biomedical United States
• Source:
  Clin Transl Sci. 6(1):34-39
• Pubmed ID:
  23399087
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3578440
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U48 DP001944/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U48DP001944/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 RR024999/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 RR024128/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; 3UL1RR024128-04S3/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1RR024999/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P30 DK092949/DK/NIDDK NIH HHSUnited States/ ; 3UL1RR024128-03S2/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U48-DP001944/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  6
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:08592ecd6513857280df2c80ced28761250e0efc7f703875b3a4ef0b86cd9fc0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33522/cdc_33522_DS1.pdf
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