TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigate-Design-Practice-Reflect
T2 - An Iterative Community-Engaged Action Process to Improve Population Health
AU - Rosen, Marisa S.
AU - Rogers, Ann E.
AU - J. Von Seggern, Mary
AU - Grimm, Brandon L.
AU - Ramos, Athena K.
AU - Schenkelberg, Michaela A.
AU - Idoate, Regina E.
AU - Dzewaltowski, David A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024/12
Y1 - 2024/12
N2 - 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).
AB - 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).
KW - Coalitions
KW - Community Action
KW - Community Engagement
KW - Cross-sector Collaboration
KW - Quality Improvement
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U2 - 10.1007/s10900-024-01385-y
DO - 10.1007/s10900-024-01385-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 39110360
AN - SCOPUS:85200693284
SN - 0094-5145
VL - 49
SP - 1106
EP - 1117
JO - Journal of Community Health
JF - Journal of Community Health
IS - 6
ER -