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Evaluating health services research capacity building programs: implications for health services and human resource
Roger Levine1, Darlene Russ-Eft, Andrea Burling
1darlene.russeft@oregonstate.edu
Evaluation and Program Planning
|January 8, 2013
Summary
Research capacity building programs enhanced publication rates, funding, and organizational culture. However, correlations between these positive outcomes were not significant.
Area of Science:
- Health Services Research
- Program Evaluation
- Research Infrastructure Development
Background:
- Evaluating research capacity building programs is complex due to definitional and measurement challenges.
- Federally funded health research programs require effective infrastructure strategies for success.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate infrastructure capacity-building strategies within two US federally funded health research programs.
- To identify barriers and facilitators impacting program success.
- To analyze impacts based on institutional research infrastructure levels (seed vs. fertilizer projects).
Main Methods:
- Developed a conceptual framework and abstracted 223 data elements.
- Administered questionnaires to 17 principal investigators (PIs) and interviewed 15 PIs.
- Conducted 1.5-day site visits for five projects and aggregated data across programs.
Main Results:
- Projects correlated with increased PI and staff publication/presentation rates.
- Increases in research funding and positive community impacts were observed.
- Changes in organizational research culture were noted, though outcome correlations were small and non-significant.
Conclusions:
- Infrastructure capacity-building strategies can yield positive outcomes in research programs.
- Understanding project characteristics and activities is key to maximizing impact.
- Further research is needed to explore the nuanced relationships between different capacity-building outcomes.
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