Investigate-Design-Practice-Reflect: An Iterative Community-Engaged Action Process to Improve Population Health

Background Community-based coalitions are a common strategy for community engagement efforts targeting the improvement of a variety of population health outcomes. The typical processes that coalitions follow to organize efforts include steps that are sequential, slow, and time intensive. These proce...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of community health 2024-12, Vol.49 (6), p.1106-1117
Hauptverfasser: Rosen, Marisa S., Rogers, Ann E., J. Von Seggern, Mary, Grimm, Brandon L., Ramos, Athena K., Schenkelberg, Michaela A., Idoate, Regina E., Dzewaltowski, David A.
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Zusammenfassung:Background Community-based coalitions are a common strategy for community engagement efforts targeting the improvement of a variety of population health outcomes. The typical processes that coalitions follow to organize efforts include steps that are sequential, slow, and time intensive. These processes also limit local decision-making to the selection of evidence-based policies or programs. Methods We present a process control theory-based Community Action Process , Investigate-Design-Practice-Reflect (IDPR), where community hubs (i.e., coalitions) organize agile efforts in a non-sequential, rapid, and efficient manner to harness local assets and data to make decisions regarding the provision and production of population health services. Using qualitative methods, we illustrate and analyze the use of IDPR in a one community case study as part of Wellscapes, a Type 3-hybrid implementation-effectiveness community randomized controlled trial to improve children’s population health physical activity. Results We found community members followed the IDPR Community Action Process to rapidly design, organize, deliver, and receive feedback on a community-based, children’s population physical activity prototype, an afterschool Play-in-the-Park opportunity for all children. Discussion Following IDPR afforded the community coalition timely learning through feedback within a process that coordinated decisions regarding what community services met community needs (provision decisions) and how to organize the production of the population health services (production decisions).
ISSN:0094-5145
1573-3610
1573-3610
DOI:10.1007/s10900-024-01385-y