Engaged for Change: A Community-Engaged Process for Developing Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities

The science underlying the development of individual, community, system, and policy interventions designed to reduce health disparities has lagged behind other innovations. Few models, theoretical frameworks, or processes exist to guide intervention development. Our community-engaged research partne...

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Published in:AIDS education and prevention 2017-12, Vol.29 (6), p.491-502
Main Authors: Rhodes, Scott D, Mann-Jackson, Lilli, Alonzo, Jorge, Simán, Florence M, Vissman, Aaron T, Nall, Jennifer, Abraham, Claire, Aronson, Robert E, Tanner, Amanda E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Citizen participation
Community
Community change
Community research
Community-Based Participatory Research
Editing
Health disparities
Health Promotion
Health Status Disparities
Healthcare Disparities
HIV
HIV Infections - prevention & control
Honing
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Innovations
Intervention
Logic
Needs Assessment
Priorities
Program Development - methods
Public health
Teams
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Summary:The science underlying the development of individual, community, system, and policy interventions designed to reduce health disparities has lagged behind other innovations. Few models, theoretical frameworks, or processes exist to guide intervention development. Our community-engaged research partnership has been developing, implementing, and evaluating efficacious interventions to reduce HIV disparities for over 15 years. Based on our intervention research experiences, we propose a novel 13-step process designed to demystify and guide intervention development. Our intervention development process includes steps such as establishing an intervention team to manage the details of intervention development; assessing community needs, priorities, and assets; generating intervention priorities; evaluating and incorporating theory; developing a conceptual or logic model; crafting activities; honing materials; administering a pilot, noting its process, and gathering feedback from all those involved; and editing the intervention based on what was learned. Here, we outline and describe each of these 13 steps.
ISSN:0899-9546
1943-2755
DOI:10.1521/aeap.2017.29.6.491