Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

Context: Organizational participatory research (OPR) is defined as a blend of research and action, in which researchers work with members of an organization in order to improve organizational practices. A recent model from an OPR systematic review describes the processes and outcomes of OPR health partnerships. Evaluation and feedback improves relationships within the partnership and partnership development and sustainability. There are no reviews of OPR health partnership evaluation tools. Objectives: 1) Identify existing tools, 2) Describe the dimensions assessed by these tools, 3) Extract items from these tools and match them to dimensions in the OPR model and 4) Create a pool of evaluation items for each dimension of the model. Design: Scoping review of quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods empirical studies concerning the development and/or validation of OPR health partnership evaluation tools. Methods: This review will follow general scoping review guidelines: 1) Identifying studies using an iterative search strategy guided by two specialized librarians, 2) Selecting studies using eligibility criteria, 3) Extracting data and 4) Synthetizing data to organize items in a matrix using a deductive and inductive thematic analysis based on the OPR model. Items will be matched to dimensions of the OPR model. Items that do not match will be organized into 'new' dimensions. Preliminary results: This review will produce a pool of OPR health partnership evaluation items retrieved from selected studies. Conclusion: This scoping review will validate and complete the OPR model and will generate a pool of OPR health partnership evaluation items mapped with dimensions.