Exploring Community Engagement for Health Promotion Action and Research (Fall 2025) by Andrew Springer

Benefits: What are the benefits of community engagement for health promotion action and research?

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Best Practices: What are best practices for community engagement for health promotion planning, action and research? Best practices for effective group process?

andrewespringer — 2025-09-14 19:08:59 UTC

Methods: What are examples of participatory needs assessment/ planning/implementation/evaluation frameworks and/or methods? (e.g. health promotion planning frameworks? Methods such as "Think-Pair-Share"; "S.W.O.T."; etc. ?)

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Sustainability

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Builds Trust and Relationships

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Community engagement research can create studies that are more relevant and therefore more impactful for a specific community.

Improvements of quality of life

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Benefits:

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Can allow for increased understanding

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help build self efficacy in the community

Benefits of Community Engagement

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Creating a sense of unity and ownership over health initiatives that people share

Best practices for community engagement.

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Engaging the community during the planning process. Hold focus groups and interviews with community members.

What are the benefits?

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increases awareness of demographics and values within the community

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Community members become advocates, sharing info with friends and family.

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building realistic goals

Being open and honest with community and ensuring we follow up with results of study

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Benefits

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It turns research into action people actually use.

Best practices

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group workshops that promote discussion and sharing ideas for improvement

Best practice

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Interviews where participants feel validated and seen in their community.

Best Practices:

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creating hands-on programs that best fit each group

Best Practices

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Share the results with the community at the end of the study

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allowing community members to be apart of the process

Proposed Methods

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Depending on the intervention, the Social Cognitive Theory is effective at illustrating behavior change.

Learn more insight

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target the community to be accessible --> if many young people live in the community like a college town then use social media and online platforms

Best practices

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Engage people across age, gender, race, income, and lived experience.

Methods:

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Get Fit, or Lifestyle programs to help change daily routine

Methods

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community mapping to find and assess barriers

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Efficiency: as to not waste resources on efforts the community does not want

Best Practices

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Respect different opinions.

Example of Participatory Needs Assessment

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Community Mapping: participants within a community identify connections, needs, resources, and assets within their community to identify desired changes

Methods

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behavioral theory can be applied to the findings and interventions can be implemented accordingly

HBM is also a great resource to add to asessmemnts

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planning

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surveying