Faculty Participation in and Needs around Community Engagement within a Large Multiinstitutional Clinical and Translational Science Awardee

• Published in: Clinical and translational science Vol. 8; no. 5; pp. 506 - 512
• Main Authors: Chung, Bowen, Norris, Keith, Mangione, Carol, del Pino, Homero E., Jones, Loretta, Castro, Daniel, Wang, Christina, Bell, Douglas, Vangala, Sitaram, Kahn, Katherine, Brown, Arleen F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.10.2015; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: academic health researchers; Academies and Institutes - economics; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Attitude of Health Personnel - ethnology; Awards and Prizes; Clinical Trials as Topic - economics; Clinical Trials as Topic - methods; Communication; community engagement; Community-Based Participatory Research; Community-Institutional Relations; Continental Population Groups; CTSA; Educational Status; faculty development; Faculty, Dental; Faculty, Medical; Female; Humans; Logistic Models; Male; Middle Aged; Odds Ratio; Original s; Patient Selection; Public Opinion; Research Design; Research Personnel - psychology; Research Subjects; Research Support as Topic - economics; School faculty; Sex Factors; Surveys and Questionnaires; training; Translational Medical Research - economics; Translational Medical Research - methods; translational research; Young Adult; CTSA; training; translational research; faculty development; academic health researchers; community engagement
• ISSN: 1752-8054; 1752-8062; 1752-8062
• DOI: 10.1111/cts.12314

Community engagement is recommended to ensure the public health impact of NIH‐funded science. To understand the prevalence of community‐engaged research and faculty interest in and needs around this, from 2012 to 2013, an online survey (n = 3,022) was sent to UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute faculty. Among respondents, 45% reported community‐engaged project participation in the last year and 64% an interest in learning about community‐engaged research. Over 50% indicated career development and pilot grants would increase participation in community‐engaged research. A greater percentage of pretenure than tenured faculty (pretenure 54.9%, tenured 42.2%, p = 0008) noted faculty promotion criteria incentivizing community‐engaged research would increase participation. In adjusted analyses, African American (OR 4.06, CI 1.68–9.82, p = 0.002) and Latino (OR 1.91, CI 1.10–3.33, p = 0.022) faculty had higher odds of prior participation in community‐engaged projects than Whites. Female faculty had greater odds of interest (OR 1.40, CI 1.02–1.93, p = 0.038) in learning about community‐engaged research than males. African American (OR 4.31, CI 1.42–13.08, p = 0.010) and Asian/Pacific Islander (OR 2.24, CI 1.52–3.28, p < 0.001) faculty had greater interest in learning about community‐engaged research than Whites. To build community‐engaged faculty research capacity, CTSAs’ may need to focus resources on female and minority faculty development.