Multilevel Community Engagement to Inform a Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore how patients, community-based perinatal support professionals, and health system clinicians and staff perceived facilitators and barriers to implementation of a randomized clinical trial (RCT) designed to optimize Black maternal heart health.

Methods

This article describes the formative work that we believed needed to occur before the start of the Change of H.E.A.R.T (Here for Equity, Advocacy, Reflection and Transformation) RCT. We used a qualitative, descriptive design and community-based, participatory approach, the latter of which allowed our team to intentionally focus on avoiding harm and equalizing power dynamics throughout the research process. Data were collected between November 2021 and January 2022 through six semistructured focus groups that

SUBMITTER: Wycoff KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10510772 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature