Development of tailored feedback reports on organizational capacity for health promotion in African American churches.

ABSTRACT: Standard community-engaged research methods involve reporting research findings back to study participants. Project HEAL is an implementation trial conducted in 14 African American churches. This paper reports on a strengths-based approach to reporting Project HEAL organizational capacity data back to church leadership, through use of individualized church reports. Pastors in each church completed a church organizational capacity assessment. The study team, including community partners representing church leadership, co-created a channel and content to disseminate the capacity data back to Project HEAL church leaders. This consisted of a 4-page lay report that included the church's capacity scores, and recommendations for future evidence-based health promotion programming matched to their

SUBMITTER: Holt CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6077099 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature