Clinical trial

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

Opening soon · Not applicable · 1 countries · Registry ID NCT07804550

Opening soonNot applicableInterventional

What this study is about

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.

A promising-looking record is not the same as confirmed eligibility. The study team must review the full criteria and current recruitment status.

Basic eligibility

Age18 Years to Not listed

SexAll

Healthy volunteersAccepted

ConditionChildhood Obesity, Evidence-Based Practice, Food Systems, Food Policy

Full registry 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.

Treatments and study arms

Catalyzing Communities

Behavioral

Catalyzing Communities is a coalition-centered implementation-support platform that includes facilitated coalition convening, group model building, technical assistance, and seed funding. The platform supports shared systems understanding, identification of action opportunities, selection of an evidence-informed strategy, action planning, and early coalition-led implementation. Activities may be delivered virtually or in person and continue across the active intervention period.

FICAS Implementation Intervention

Behavioral

FICAS is a multicomponent implementation intervention delivered as an augmentation to Catalyzing Communities. It includes five strategies: using roster and network data to strengthen committee representation and connectivity; identifying and engaging influential or bridging coalition members; progressively assembling and reviewing research, practice, community, and policy evidence; using structured criteria and deliberation to select an evidence-informed strategy; and monitoring coalition network data to guide adaptations. Components are delivered at relevant milestones across evidence review, strategy selection, and early implementation.

Primary outcomes

Participation and ReachFrom the beginning of participant recruitment through the primary assessment window, up to 12 months after intervention initiation

The number of eligible coalition members who provide informed consent and complete at least one study data-collection activity will be divided by the total number of eligible coalition members invited to participate and multiplied by 100. Scores range from 0% to 100%. Higher percentages indicate greater study reach.

Percentage of Enrolled Participants Retained Through the Primary EndpointBaseline through intervention month 12

The number of participants in the baseline cohort who complete the final scheduled primary assessment will be divided by the number enrolled in the baseline cohort and multiplied by 100. Scores range from 0% to 100%. Higher percentages indicate greater retention.

Mean Acceptability of Intervention Measure Score for FICASIntervention months 6, 9, and 12

Acceptability of FICAS will be measured using the four-item Acceptability of Intervention Measure. Each item is scored from 1, completely disagree, to 5, completely agree. Item scores will be averaged to produce a mean score ranging from 1 to 5. Higher scores indicate greater perceived acceptability. Mean scores will be reported separately at each assessment.

Mean Intervention Appropriateness Measure Score for FICASIntervention months 6, 9, and 12

Perceived appropriateness of FICAS will be measured using the four-item Intervention Appropriateness Measure. Each item is scored from 1, completely disagree, to 5, completely agree. Item scores will be averaged to produce a mean score ranging from 1 to 5. Higher scores indicate greater perceived appropriateness. Mean scores will be reported separately at each assessment.

Mean Feasibility of Intervention Measure Score for FICASIntervention months 6, 9, and 12

Perceived feasibility of FICAS will be measured using the four-item Feasibility of Intervention Measure. Each item is scored from 1, completely disagree, to 5, completely agree. Item scores will be averaged to produce a mean score ranging from 1 to 5. Higher scores indicate greater perceived feasibility. Mean scores will be reported separately at each assessment.

Study locations

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University of Pittsburgh🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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Travis R Moore, PhDContact

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Travis R Moore, PhDPrincipal Investigator