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Network-Based Support to Help Community Coalition Members Choose and Use Strategies to Improve Child Health

Pilot Trial of Network-Based Implementation Strategies to Increase Coalition Adoption and Early Implementation of Evidence-Informed Strategies for Child Health

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
18 Years and older
Sex
All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Compensation
Not stated

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

Not stated in the study description — ask the study team about visits and procedures.

Compensation
Not stated
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

Community coalitions bring together residents and organizations to improve child health, but they may need support to identify and put research-supported strategies into practice. This study will examine whether a program called FICAS can be delivered successfully and is useful to coalition members. FICAS uses information about relationships within a coalition to help involve people with relevant perspectives, share evidence, compare possible strategies, make decisions, and adjust support as the coalition's work develops. Three community coalitions will participate. All three will eventually receive Catalyzing Communities, a program that provides facilitated meetings, collaborative planning, technical assistance, and funding for coalition-led action. One coalition will begin the program later, one will receive Catalyzing Communities alone, and one will receive Catalyzing Communities with FICAS. The study will help determine whether FICAS and the study procedures should be refined and tested in a larger study.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Official eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria Coalition-level criteria * Coalition focuses on child health, childhood obesity prevention, healthy eating, active living, nutrition security, policy, systems, or environmental change, or related community health priorities. * Coalition works in or serves a community experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage. * Coalition has multisector participation. * Coalition has identifiable leadership or backbone capacity to participate in the study. * Coalition is willing to participate in study procedures and data collection and accept randomized coalition-level assignment. * Coalition has a feasible membership roster or is able to work with the study team to construct one and has an identifiable leadership contact. * Coalition can support participant recruitment and scheduling without coercing individual participation. Individual-level criteria * Age 18 years or older. * Coalition member, leader, staff member, partner, changemaker, committee or core-group participant, named network connection, survey-only participant, invited guest, or other adult with relevant community, organizational, policy, professional, or implementation expertise or connections. * Able to provide informed consent. * Able to participate in English. * For direct committee or core-group participants, able to participate through the internet, telephone, or another study-supported mode. * Willing to complete the study activities applicable to the participant's role, which may include meetings, surveys, network assessments, or interviews. Exclusion Criteria Coalition-level criteria * Coalition is unable to participate in required study activities. * Coalition lacks a feasible membership roster or the ability to construct one with study-team assistance, or lacks an identifiable leadership contact. * Coalition is unwilling to accept randomized coalition-level assignment. * Coalition is participating in a comparable formal coalition intervention that would prevent interpretation of the study findings. Individual-level criteria * Younger than 18 years. * Unable to provide informed consent. * Unable to participate in English. * Does not have an eligible coalition, professional, community, organizational, policy, or implementation role, expertise, or connection. * For direct committee or core-group participants, unable to participate through an available study-supported mode. * Participation would create an unmanaged conflict or undue pressure that cannot be resolved.

Study sites (1)

PA