Table 1.
Strategy | Description of the process | Principles addressed |
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Head Start (HS) Centers | ||
1. Build on previous relationships |
Engaged communities with existing or previous relationships with our research center or members of the research team |
Expand trust Maintain long-term relationships |
2. Identify an individual in each community to advocate for the study |
Identified and worked with a stakeholder in each community who believed in the study and was willing to advocate for it within the community |
Find a community champion Build partnership Promote project benefits |
3. Jointly develop a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) |
Collaborated with community partners to develop an MOA outlining the roles and responsibilities of both the research team and the community partners, and explicitly stating benefits for both the intervention and comparison sites |
Provide for an equitable partnership Establish trust Communicate clearly Promote project benefits |
4. Incorporate the partner organization’s goals |
Designed an intervention that helped community partners meet or exceed their own performance standards and other regulations or requirements |
Build partnership Demonstrate respect |
5. Assign one dedicated person to maintain contact |
Assigned a single point of contact for community partners to use when communicating with the research team |
Build trust Communicate clearly Provide for an equitable partnership |
Children | ||
1. Communicate in person with families |
Presented the study in-person to family members, reviewed materials and provided an opportunity for questions |
Build trust Demonstrate respect Promote project benefits |
2. Use appropriate language | Conducted presentations and provided materials in Spanish when appropriate and at the appropriate education level to enhance understanding |
Communicate clearly Demonstrate respect |
Parents | ||
1. Employ local champions to assist with the project |
Hired local champions to assist with contacting potential participants and scheduling interviews |
Find a community champion Demonstrate respect Communicate clearly |
2. Conduct interviews at a location convenient to participants |
Made interviews as convenient and comfortable as possible for the participants |
Demonstrate respect |
3. Use bilingual interviewers | Used bilingual interviewers to address participants in the language in which they were most comfortable |
Build trust Demonstrate respect |
Provide incentives | Provided incentives commensurate with participant commitment |
Demonstrate respect |
Grocery Stores | ||
1. Involve a nutrition scientist | Employed a nutrition scientist familiar with the health and nutritional aspects of products and the intervention as well as an understanding of the business impact of the intervention |
Build partnership Demonstrate respect |
2. Have research team members maintain intervention materials |
Had research team members go to the grocery stores at regular intervals to maintain intervention materials (e.g., recipes, project brochures, and signage) |
Build partnership Demonstrate respect |
Healthcare Providers | ||
1. Work through an established network of healthcare providers |
Recruited community healthcare providers from an established network |
Build relationships Focus on participant preferences |
2. Make minimal requests on healthcare provider time |
Integrated interventions into regular healthcare provider practice |
Demonstrate respect Build relationships |
3. Use professional recommendations |
Used the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations and built the intervention with those recommendations in mind |
Demonstrate respect |
4. Offer an intervention-related incentive |
Provided an incentive that contributed to the intervention and met professional standards for healthcare providers |
Build partnership Demonstrate respect |