title: Community health promotion and the randomized controlled trial: approaches to finding common ground.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Valley United Way, Ansonia, Connecticut, USA.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nawaz
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jennings
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ballard
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Comerford
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Spargo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Walsh
mesh_terms: 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