Assessing process and outcomes: evaluating community-based participatory research.

Background: The California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP) Community Research Collaboration (CRC) Awards fund research projects conducted by partnerships between community members and academically trained research scientists.

Objectives: We sought to determine the relationship, if any, between the collaborative process of conducting the CRC projects and reported outcomes.

Methods: Community and academic researchers from the first seven CRC full award projects were interviewed in one-on-one, standardized, semistructured telephone interviews.