Community health promotion and the randomized controlled trial: approaches to finding common ground.
The randomized controlled trial is the model against which research designs are judged. Concurrent with rising standards of evidence, however, is a trend toward greater inclusiveness in community-based research, exemplified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded Prevention Research Centers, a nationwide network of academic-community partnerships engaged in community-based health promotion and disease prevention research. The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center developed a replicable process for devising randomized trials in the context of community collaboration. Several examples of trials developed this way and their interim results are provided.
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D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D005260:Female; D006292:Health Priorities; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control; D017698:Postmenopause; D011634:Public Health; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D012107:Research Design