TABLE 2.

Checklist of CBPR Strategies for Intervention design and development

Strategy	Activities	Tips for Success
Forming the Design and Action Team	Identify purpose and duration of group	• Have a predetermined time commitment and anticipated end date of a work group
		• Allow the group to select a name
	Promote diverse participation (demographic, skills, experiential, etc.)	• Use both an open application process and outreach based on existing relationships
		• Communicate directly about the value and importance of different forms of expertise (research, experiential)
Promote partnership-building practices and structure	Engage in activities that build trust and familiarity	• Share meals as part of the planning process and allow time for social discussion
		• Provide a welcoming space and be flexible with the presence of children
		• Use name tents
	Respect time and commitment made by community members	• Pay community members for their time
		• Start and end on time
		• Identify convenient locations/times to meet
Offer facilitated engagement activities	Design activities that promote colearning	• Engage in a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis of existing interventions or research studies
		• Conduct Show & Tell activities where work group members propose and practice new ideas and share them with the full group
		• Use station rotation to allow work group members to spend time reviewing existing evidence-based practices, discuss, and provide feedback
Provide Coordinated communication	Identify multiple methods of communicating with group members to move the agenda forward in between meetings	• Identify homework activities that work group members can complete independently
		• Ask group members to provide feedback and ideas through surveys in-between sessions
Openness to new paths	Strike a balance between sufficient structure to accomplish work, with flexibility to innovate	• Recognize the importance of language use and terminology, considering how community members experience negative diagnostic–sounding labels
		• Encourage solution-focused discussions that identify multiple pathways to achieve the same overarching goals of promoting healthy communities
Filter and organize information by using qualitative research skills with a vision	Maximize the research skills of university partners by having them distill information and ideas generated during meetings	• Qualitatively code ideas after each meeting with basic descriptive codes and grouped categories of codes
		• Present distilled themes and examples back to the full work group each meeting to generate further insights

NOTE: CBPR = community-based participatory research.