Community Engaged Research Strategies Used in Food Retail Interventions: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Researchers across the United States often leverage community engagement (CE) as a strategy in interventions aiming to alter the retail food environment (RFE), especially in areas serving racially segregated neighborhoods with low incomes. However, little is known about the full breadth, intensity, and approaches used to engage communities in RFE intervention work.

Objective

The purpose of this scoping review is to identify what CE research approaches have been applied by researchers in the RFE intervention literature and how they vary by type of retail settings, phase of intervention, year of intervention, and key domains of equity.

Methods

Following the JBI (formerly known as Joanna Briggs Institute) and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review

SUBMITTER: Kaur R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12477712 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature