TABLE 2.

Emergent Themes and Sample Quotes Across Community Capacity and Group Dynamic Dimensions of the Parent Advisory Team

Dimensions	Definition of Dimension	Facilitators	Barriers	Representative Quotes
Communication	The degree to which information is shared openly and regularly, including the ability to listen to one another.	• Communication facilitated through small group work. • Communication facilitated through pacing of relationship building (allowed to happen naturally).	• Scheduling conflicts affect communication and group meetings. • Lack of consistent communication between meetings.	“I think it’s [communication] great. I know I’m comfortable. I feel like I can say whatever I want and people seem to listen. And even if they don’t agree, you know, they express their opinion as well.” “I think that the main issue is when we do try to plan something as a Parent Advisory group like an outing other than our meetings. I think even the meetings sometimes it’s difficult for everybody to have where [time] they can get together at the same time, basically. But other than that, it seems like communication is not an issue for us.”
Problem Assessment	The ability to identify, solve, and act on a problem, including detecting, defining, and solving problems as they arise.	• Identified aspects of program and potential solutions to be tested. • PAT’s ability to look at the benefits and challenges to childhood obesity solutions.	• Issues around the practicality of ideas. • Marketing iChoose for recruitment purpose.	“I think they’re going really well because we’re getting able to try those things out as they would be done, or kind of see what might work better when they’re actually put to use during a phase with the program.” “So I think just marketing is just going to be a big challenge. Because what I would think would work, you know, the numbers say otherwise.”
Participation and Personal Influence	The degree to which every member feels valued, heard, and has some influence on the group.	• Leaders engaging in discussion—equity in viewpoints and value of input. • Everybody has equal influence in the development of maintenance activities	• Overburdened in personal life roles and responsibilities causes lack in participation. • Scheduling conflicts affect participation.	“I mean it’s [pilot testing] great because it is pretty new and everyone is giving it a shot. Now some people might be open to the new things that we’re piloting, but they might not be comfortable actually participating in it. But when there’s an alternative activity to the main activity, that’s really good, too; and that’s kind of something that we’re developing, you know, because everybody’s not going to want to do the same thing.” “The only obstacle there is, yet again, the same thing where everybody being available to come to the meetings at the same time. I know some people had to miss here and there because of activities and things.”
Leadership	The degree to which members are able to guide/direct the POPS-CAB including team working skills, leadership opportunities, and willingness of members to take on or share leadership responsibilities.	• Confidence in research team’s ability to lead. • There are opportunities for PAT to have leadership roles.	• Unclear roles can affect leadership. • Lack of training causes reluctance in taking on leadership role.	“… I think you just provide us with different areas of where we can lead or show our leadership.” “I just think we just need a little more…we just need like the training materials and just, you know, the verbiage, you know, what we’re supposed to say and what we’re supposed to accomplish.”
Community Power	The ability to work together to influence decisions that affect the community, state, or nation.	• Increased participant relationship. • Doing something good for the community.	• Lack of community awareness. • Lack of concern in the community regarding childhood obesity.	“It was always good to convene with one another and go to, you know, sit with one another and share ideas. Because I feel like it’s a positive thing for this community all in all.” “We’ll have to … I guess we have to get people to take this group and our organization seriously; because some folks … and it’s not just with iChoose. It’s with a lot of things; a lot of self-improvement initiatives. Some people just don’t care.”
Collective Efficacy	Level of group confidence in developing and sustaining the interventions.	• Guidance from the research team has helped facilitate group confidence. • Confident in groups ability to come up with program solutions.	• Confusion around group role affects confidence. • Feeling of a lack of expertise in implementing maintenance programming.	“And as far as working together and coming up with ideas for the maintenance phase of the program, I don’t see any issues with that at all. So I think the confidence level is very good with that.” “I think we may have some confusion as to what actually happens when another phase is going and what our role would be in that.”

NOTE: PAT = Parent Advisory Team.