title: Concept Mapping as an Approach to Facilitate Participatory Intervention Building.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A challenge to addressing community-defined need through community-based participatory intervention building is ensuring that all collaborators' opinions are represented. Concept mapping integrates perspectives of individuals with differing experiences, interests, or expertise into a common visually depicted framework, and ranks composite views on importance and feasibility.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe the use of concept mapping to facilitate participatory intervention building for a school-based, teacher-focused, positive youth development (PYD) promotion program for Latino, Hmong, and Somali youth. Particiants were teachers, administrators, youth, parents, youth workers, and community and university researchers on the projects' community collaborative board. We incorporated previously collected qualitative data into the process.
  
  
  METHODS
  In a mixed-methods process we 1) generated statements based on key informant interview and focus group data from youth workers, teachers, parents, and youth in multiple languages regarding ways teachers promote PYD for Somali, Latino and Hmong youth; 2) guided participants to individually sort statements into meaningful groupings and rate them by importance and feasibility; 3) mapped the statements based on their relation to each other using multivariate statistical analyses to identify concepts, and as a group identified labels for each concept; and 4) used labels and statement ratings to identify feasible and important concepts as priorities for intervention development.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We identified 12 concepts related to PYD promotion in schools and prioritized 8 for intervention development.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Concept mapping facilitated participatory intervention building by formally representing all participants' opinions, generating visual representation of group thinking, and supporting priority setting. Use of prior qualitative work increased the diversity of viewpoints represented.
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: L Allen
authors.forename: Dane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schaleben-Boateng
authors.forename: Cynthia S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Davey
authors.forename: Mikow
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hang
authors.forename: Shannon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pergament
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D003142:Communication; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D024382:Professional Role; D012574:Schools / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013192:Staff Development; D035502:Trust