Progress in Community Health Partnerships-Research Education and Action最新文献

{"title":"Research-Practice Partnership to Implement Physical Activity Maintenance Strategies in Community-based Exercise Programs for Cancer Survivors.","authors":"Heather J Leach, Elena M Lancioni, Hannah K Cefalo, Nicole S Culos-Reed, Jennifer D Portz, Christine A Fruhauf, Angela D Bryan","doi":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a993191","DOIUrl":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a993191","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Community-based exercise programs can help cancer survivors increase physical activity (PA) but sustaining this behavior is challenging.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>Utilize a research-practice partnership framework to explore perceptions of implementing evidence-informed intervention strategies to support PA maintenance and engaging in the partnership.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Professionals (n = 7) who were involved with the delivery of one of four community-based exercise programs for cancer survivors participated in semi-structured interviews. Audio recordings were transcribed, data were coded using an inductive approach and thematically analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Themes were the perceived value of maintaining PA for cancer survivors, a need for program adaptations and funding to sustain intervention strategies, and the importance of clear communication to foster a respectful collaboration.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings will contribute to a study an adaptive PA maintenance intervention and can be applied to future research-practice partnerships in exercise oncology to help advance our understanding of how to implement and provide support for PA maintenance.</p>","PeriodicalId":46970,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Community Health Partnerships-Research Education and Action","volume":"20 2","pages":"231-238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148346823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing Queer, Trans, and Non-monogamous Youths' Experiences in a Community-based Research Project on Gender Equity.","authors":"Zoë Osborne, Colby Hangle, Sadie Stephenson, Tadiwa Nemutambwe, Gem Yelin Lee, Stevie Thompson, Anita Raj, Angela Kaida, Kalysha Closson","doi":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a987072","DOIUrl":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a987072","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Youth participatory action research (YPAR) centers the living experiences of youth, integrating them into health research processes to produce actionable findings. Our study has built a YPAR project that engages queer, trans, and non-monogamous young women and non-binary youth aged 19 to 29 years in British Columbia, Canada to explore perceptions of measures of gender equity in relationships.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>We share an assessment of how our YPAR approach impacted youth study members.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Youth were engaged through May 2022 and March 2023. Three youth research associates (core members of the research team) completed a qualitative reflection on their participation. Ten youth advisory committee (YAC) members (advisors on study processes/analysis during bi-monthly meetings) completed a mixed-methods questionnaire following five committee meetings assessing whether they felt heard, valued, and prepared to participate.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Youth research associates reported feeling valued and supported through training, data collection, and analysis. They identified the importance of ongoing training as their roles evolved. YAC members felt well prepared for their role and described meetings as a safe and productive place for dialogue. Meetings were considered too short and infrequent, highlighting the limits budget and pace of data collection placed on engagement. YAC members' reasons for participating included gaining research experience, honoraria, curiosity about the research topic, and community building.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This assessment offers insight into successful implementation of a YPAR approach with queer, trans, and/or non-monogamous young women and non-binary youth, providing a roadmap for health researchers to build projects wherein a diversity of youth feel valued and supported.</p>","PeriodicalId":46970,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Community Health Partnerships-Research Education and Action","volume":"20 1","pages":"49-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reducing Stress and Promoting Wellness Among Parents and Service Providers: A University-Community Collaboration.","authors":"Lydia F Bierce, Daniel Valerio Montero, Cheryl Finch, Ariella D Herman, Jessica K Jeffrey, Deanna Pepper-Blanta, Katie Quigley, Madelyn H Labella","doi":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a987076","DOIUrl":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a987076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Chronic stress is linked to worse parenting outcomes, with potential downstream effects on child development. Existing interventions targeting stress among low-income parents struggle with engagement and retention, and family service providers often report high stress themselves.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a stress reduction and wellness program, adapted and disseminated to parents and service providers through a novel university-community collaboration.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The program was delivered in multiple formats to parents and staff from three community-based programs serving families with young children. A mixed-methods approach was used to assess engagement, retention, satisfaction, and well-being outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results revealed high program satisfaction and pre-post improvements in parents' coping and mental health. Strengths, barriers, and avenues for improvement were identified.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This program shows promise for reducing stress among low-income parents and service providers. Ongoing collaboration to address barriers may improve accessibility and effectiveness of future iterations.</p>","PeriodicalId":46970,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Community Health Partnerships-Research Education and Action","volume":"20 1","pages":"95-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Centering Youth Voices in Creating a Community-Driven Research Agenda for Upstream Suicide Prevention.","authors":"Katrina Plamondon, Sana Z Shahram","doi":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a1001924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2026.a1001924","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Responsive to local concerns about youth suicidality, we highlight an event hosted by a long-term community-engaged research partnership focused on upstream community interventions to promote youth mental wellness.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This workshop aimed to listen for direction from youth and community about the implications of research results, including their hopes and priorities.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Approximately 60 community members and youth participated in a half-day world café style event that was co-designed with youth and a community advisory council, using critically reflective dialogue.</p><p><strong>Lessons learned: </strong>Five priorities emerged, generating a robust agenda to guide a continuing program of responsive, community-engaged and youth-led research. Participants envisioned research serving to, in and of itself, promote resiliency among youth by virtue of its role in cultivating connection, belonging and positive social climates.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This half-day workshop provided a rapid, intensive platform for identifying community and youth priorities while strengthening connections among community partners.</p>","PeriodicalId":46970,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Community Health Partnerships-Research Education and Action","volume":"20 3","pages":"417-423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149069733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using SenseMaker in a Participatory Process to Adapt a Community Violence Intervention: Protocol and Lessons Learned.","authors":"Sara Solomon, Brandy Blasko, Kamila Alexander","doi":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a1001923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2026.a1001923","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Cure Violence model, a widely implemented community violence intervention, has shown mixed effectiveness, highlighting the need for locally tailored adaptations.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study presents a novel mixed-methods, participatory approach for capturing and interpreting participant experiences to adapt the community violence intervention for Southwest Philadelphia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Penn Community Violence Prevention staff, a community advisory board, and other stakeholders participated in iterative workshops, interviews, and SenseMaker sessions. Guided by implementation science frameworks, we used a five-step process to identify multilevel barriers and facilitators, generate and refine implementation strategies, and prioritize strategies using SenseMaker dyads, triads, and visual dashboards.</p><p><strong>Lessons learned: </strong>The participatory process using Sense-Maker enhanced stakeholder engagement, structured implementation strategies, and provided interactive data visualizations to support decision-making. Addressing power dynamics and maintaining engagement post adaptation were critical to success.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study introduces a structured, participatory framework for community violence intervention adaptation, demonstrating the value of integrating novel data collection and visualization methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":46970,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Community Health Partnerships-Research Education and Action","volume":"20 3","pages":"407-416"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149070217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<i>In Memoriam</i>: Remembering Elmer Freeman, Lifelong Champion for Health Equity and Partnerships.","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a993184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2026.a993184","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46970,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Community Health Partnerships-Research Education and Action","volume":"20 2","pages":"173-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148346808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating a Community-partnered Approach to Address Locally Relevant Determinants of Cancer Screening in New York City.","authors":"Perla Chebli, Elizabeth Spurrell-Huss, Victoria Foster, Kimberly Charles, Sonia Sifuentes, Julie Kranick, Madison N LeCroy, Lauren K Jones, Rita Ravichandar, Kadiatou Diaby, Smeily Rodriguez, Damara Gutnick, Simona C Kwon, Kody Gerkin, Camesha Grant, Bruce D Rapkin, Chau Trinh-Shevrin","doi":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a987075","DOIUrl":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a987075","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>New York City (NYC) Cancer Outreach Network in Neighborhoods for Equity and Community Translation (CONNECT) aims to address determinants of cancer screening and access disparities in low-income NYC neighborhoods with high cancer burden.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>NYC CONNECT community partners formed neighborhood action councils (NACs) and engaged in mixed-method formative research and an iterative consensus-building process to co-identify structural and social determinants of cancer screening. The NACs co-developed with health and academic partners community-level strategies to address structural determinants of health. The objective of this manuscript is to describe participatory processes to engage and support community partners in low-income and high poverty communities and the evaluation of their functioning within the context of a community-academic research partnership.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>NYC CONNECT partnership development is informed by trauma-informed community building and community-based participatory research principles. Our mixed-methods partnership evaluation included surveys, qualitative interviews, and speaking time in meetings as a proxy for engagement.</p><p><strong>Lessons learned: </strong>Trauma-informed community building and community-based participatory research informed co-learning and consensus-building activities among the NACs. Identifying and prioritizing structural and social determinants of health strategies was a non-linear, iterative process that required multiple interactive activities (e.g., asset mapping, impact to effort matrix, and voting).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Community engagement is a dynamic process that requires adapting to community partners' goals and sharing decision-making power.</p>","PeriodicalId":46970,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Community Health Partnerships-Research Education and Action","volume":"20 1","pages":"85-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13112820/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond Acknowledgments: Community Authorship as a Necessary Shift Toward Equity in Scholarly Writing and Publishing.","authors":"Chioma Nnaji, Michelle Abraczinskas, Karen Calhoun, Karen D'Alonzo, Karen Mancera Cuevas, Nancy R Glassman, Kent Key, Charles R Senteio, Hal Strelnick","doi":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a987067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2026.a987067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46970,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Community Health Partnerships-Research Education and Action","volume":"20 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Engaging the National Youth Football Community in a Child Sexual Abuse Research Advisory Board.","authors":"Alyssa Amendola, Melissa Bright, Diana Ortega","doi":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a993190","DOIUrl":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a993190","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>While research advisory boards are common in community-based research, there are challenges with forming a board on sensitive topics and among communities who are less often engaged in research such as youth football organizations.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>We share our processes for forming a national board, challenges associated with engaging some football community members, and feedback from our board members.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Board members were recruited with a multidisciplinary team of youth football organization employees. Researchers compared demographic characteristics of interested individuals who joined the board to those who did not.</p><p><strong>Lessons learned: </strong>Board members were different in several ways to those who did not participate. Additionally, board members experienced minimal harm from participating in discussions on sensitive topics.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Although several interested individuals joined the board, more than one-half of the interested individuals did not. It is important for researchers to make intentional efforts to engage underrepresented individuals and ensure the research is beneficial to all community members.</p>","PeriodicalId":46970,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Community Health Partnerships-Research Education and Action","volume":"20 2","pages":"223-230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148346830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing an Interdisciplinary Community Action Team for Reduction in Maternal Mortality Related to Cardiovascular Disease.","authors":"Natasha R Kumar, Imani Davis, Sneha Kamarajugadda, Lisa Levine, Aasta Mehta","doi":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a987074","DOIUrl":"10.1353/cpr.2026.a987074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Pregnancy-associated deaths involving cardiovascular disease (CVD) often occur beyond six weeks postpartum and are associated with delayed recognition.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>We report on a community-informed approach to create an issue-specific community action team (CAT), which selected and tailored an intervention for CVD in pregnancy and postpartum.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>City-based maternal mortality review committee data on pregnancy-associated deaths involving CVD was leveraged to build an issue-specific CAT.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Maternal mortality review committee data highlighted the high frequency of cardiac-related symptoms as well as hospital-based evaluations among individuals during the year before death. The CAT identified and optimized a quality improvement intervention for CVD screening in pregnancy and postpartum. This process integrated feedback from stakeholders from multiple care settings across the city and created a foundation for rapid citywide dissemination of the revised algorithm and supplementary materials.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>CATs may be an effective organizational strategy to center community perspectives and build partnerships for intervention development to address pregnancy-associated mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":46970,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Community Health Partnerships-Research Education and Action","volume":"20 1","pages":"77-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}