Table 4 presents the results of survey questions posed to both CAB members and intervention coalition representatives about the benefits and drawbacks of participation in the study. These two groups had strikingly similar views of the benefits of participation, with large percentages endorsing benefits related to their ability to address an important issue, acquisition of useful knowledge, and enhanced ability to affect public policy. There was one benefit, however, that showed a dramatic difference between these two groups: 75% of CAB members, but only 40% of intervention site representatives, believed that participation in the study would help them acquire additional financial support in the future. One CAB member expressed the following: “I had no expectation of [participation] impacting our funding…except maybe indirectly, in that the knowledge gained and the experience might make me better able to write more successful grants.”
