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Trial reportHealth education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education2017

Challenges and Innovations in a Community-Based Participatory Randomized Controlled Trial.

Jessica R Goodkind, Suha Amer, Charlisa Christian, Julia Meredith Hess, Deborah Bybee, Brian L Isakson, Brandon Baca, Martin Ndayisenga, R Neil Greene, Cece Shantzek

Registry-linked trialAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03779204 (Transitioning Youth Out of Homelessness), which is not on this map. Cited by 27 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03779204 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2019, after this paper: background citation

Transitioning Youth Out of Homelessness: A Mixed Methods Community-Based Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Rent Subsidy and Mentoring Intervention in Three Canadian Cities

TypeinterventionalSponsorUnity Health TorontoRan2019 to 2022Enrolled24ConditionsHomeless PersonsArmsMentorship, Rent Subsidies
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Examining Community Engagement Research Strategies Used in Flint, Michigan: The Church Challenge.Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jessica R Goodkind1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Suha Amer1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Charlisa Christian1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Julia Meredith Hess1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Deborah Bybee2 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Brian L Isakson1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Brandon Baca1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Martin Ndayisenga1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
R Neil Greene1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Cece Shantzek1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
University of New Mexico · USMichigan State University · US

Funding

Transdisciplinary Research, Equity and Engagement Center for Advancing Behavioral HealthU54MD004811 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI CACARI STONE, LISA MARIE · 2017 to 2022
$8.7M
Addressing Social Determinants to Reduce Refugee Mental Health DisparitiesR01MD007712 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI GOODKIND, JESSICA R · 2013 to 2017
$1.9M
NIMHD NIH HHS R01 MD007712NIMHD NIH HHS U54 MD004811
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are a long-standing and important design for conducting rigorous tests of the effectiveness of health interventions. However, many questions have been raised about the external validity of RCTs, their utility in explicating mechanisms of intervention and participants' intervention experiences, and their feasibility and acceptability. In the current mixed-methods study, academic and community partners developed and implemented an RCT to test the effectiveness of a collaboratively developed community-based advocacy, learning, and social support intervention. The goals of the intervention were to address social determinants of health and build trust and connections with other mental health services in order to reduce mental health disparities among Afghan, Great Lakes Region African, and Iraqi refugee adults and to engage and retain refugees in trauma-focused treatment, if needed. Two cohorts completed the intervention between 2013 and 2015. Ninety-three adult refugees were randomly assigned to intervention or control group and completed four research interviews (pre-, mid-, and postintervention, and follow-up). Several challenges to conducting a community-based RCT emerged, including issues related to interviewer intervention to assist participants in the control group, diffusion of intervention resources throughout the small refugee communities, and staff and community concerns about the RCT design and what evidence is meaningful to demonstrate intervention effectiveness. These findings highlight important epistemological, methodological, and ethical challenges that should be considered when conducting community-based RCTs and interpreting results from them. In addition, several innovations were developed to address these challenges, which may be useful for other community-academic partnerships engaged in RCTs.

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Community-Based Participatory ResearchTrustAdultFemaleHumansMaleMental Health ServicesRefugeesResearch DesignSocial Determinants of HealthSocial SupportStress, Psychologicalcommunity based participatory researchhealth disparitiesmental healthresearch designsocial determinants

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PMID27179291
PMCPMC5107362
OpenAlexW2354737745

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