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.

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结构性社区治理：社区-学术研究伙伴关系的重要性

基于社区的参与式研究 (CBPR) 强调民主知识生产和学术界与社区之间的联合行动，以通过多层次干预促进健康公平。虽然很多学术都表达了对研究人员和社区之间合作的承诺，但社区和学术利益相关者之间的有效结构治理方法正在探索中。我们通过描述 CBPR 伙伴关系中结构治理的多个维度的概念和实证分析来填补这一空白。首先，我们将关于有效协作治理设计的公共政策证据与 CBPR 中的新兴文献相结合，以创建一个概念模型。下一个，我们利用对 179 个联邦政府资助的社区参与研究项目的互联网调查，使用验证性因素分析构建和评估跨多个维度的结构治理措施。我们探讨了诸如伙伴关系阶段和种族构成等先行因素是否与这些维度相关，并且我们检查了每个组成部分对社区参与研究和集体赋权的积极看法的关联。我们开发了一种稳健的结构治理的多维衡量标准，该衡量标准与社区参与研究和集体赋权的看法呈正相关。我们探讨了诸如伙伴关系阶段和种族构成等先行因素是否与这些维度相关，并且我们检查了每个组成部分对社区参与研究和集体赋权的积极看法的关联。我们开发了一种稳健的多维结构治理措施，该措施与社区参与研究和集体赋权的看法呈正相关。我们探讨了诸如伙伴关系阶段和种族构成等先行因素是否与这些维度相关，并且我们检查了每个组成部分对社区参与研究和集体赋权的积极看法的关联。我们开发了一种稳健的多维结构治理措施，该措施与社区参与研究和集体赋权的看法呈正相关。