Using a community partnered participatory research approach to implement a randomized controlled trial: planning community partners in care.
Quality improvement (QI) for depression in primary care can reduce disparities in outcomes. We describe how community-partnered participatory research was used to design Community Partners in Care, a randomized trial of community engagement to activate a multiple-agency network versus support for individual agencies to implement depression QI in underserved communities.
Chung
Bowen
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RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA 90509, USA. bchung@mednet.ucla.edu
Jones
Loretta
L
Dixon
Elizabeth L
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Miranda
Jeanne
J
Wells
Kenneth
K
D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D015141:Los Angeles; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*