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Science of Partner Engagement in Research: Development and Validation of Evaluation Metrics (MtG)

Partner engagement is a crucial part of participatory public health research, yet the measurement of partner engagement in research is varied, inconsistent, and not methodologically sound. Partner-engaged research approaches and a mixed-methods (qualitative/quantitative) study design are used to validate a measure to assess the level of partner engagement in research—the research engagement survey tool (REST). To reduce partner burden, a brief nine-item version of REST was developed. The resulting comprehensive version of REST was narrowed to 32 items corresponding to eight engagement principles. Psychometric results show acceptable internal consistency for the revised comprehensive measure’s eight engagement principles, both on the quality and quantity scale. Results also show low to moderate correlative validity with similar measures. Results show promise for a nine-item brief version of REST that is highly correlated with the comprehensive version of REST and has similar overall and engagement principle-specific means.