title: Action-learning collaboratives as a platform for community-based participatory research to advance obesity prevention.
abstract: Although process elements that define community-based participatory research (CBPR) are well articulated and provide guidance for bringing together researchers and communities, additional models to implement CBPR are needed. One potential model for implementing and monitoring CBPR is Action Learning Collaboratives (ALCs); short term, team-based learning processes that are grounded in quality improvement. Since 2010, the Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth (PRCD) has used ALCs with three communities as a platform to design, implement and evaluate CBPR. The first ALC provided an opportunity for academia and community leadership to strengthen their relationships and knowledge of respective assets through design and evaluation of community-based QI projects. Building on this work, we jointly designed and are implementing a second ALC, a cross-community research project focused on obesity prevention in vulnerable populations. An enhanced community capacity now exists to support CBPR activities with a high degree of sophistication and decreased reliance on external facilitation.
authors.affiliation: Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, 35 Centerra Parkway, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA. Dorothy.A.Bazos@Dartmouth.edu
authors.forename: Dorothy A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Bazos
authors.forename: Karen E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Schifferdecker
authors.forename: Rudolph
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fedrizzi
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hoebeke
authors.forename: Laural
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ruggles
authors.forename: Yvonne
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Goldsberry
mesh_terms: D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D009513:New Hampshire; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D058996:Quality Improvement; D014707:Vermont