Development of a stakeholder-engaged tool to evaluate community convening and promote community health Journal Article uri icon
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abstract
  • BACKGROUND: Health systems support community health and well-being, and while many commit resources to convening in support of community-engaged communication interventions, they currently lack tools to evaluate this effort. This report describes one health system's mixed-methods stakeholder-engaged development of robust yet pragmatic convening assessment tools. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews and web surveys with key stakeholders informed a taxonomy of quality convening and accompanying survey tool. Initial evidence of validity and item variability were assessed descriptively. RESULTS: A 3-item survey aligned with high-priority convening constructs was developed with adequate variability in initial item responses. A companion 21-construct taxonomy organized by domain and stakeholder also resulted. CONCLUSION: This project resulted in a taxonomy detailing the constructs of quality convening and an accompanying brief survey tool to meets the needs of groups convened by one health system. These tools provide a unique opportunity to measure the quality of community convening within the context of healthcare.

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    publication date
  • 2025
  • Research
    keywords
  • *Community Participation/methods
  • *Health Promotion
  • *Stakeholder Participation
  • Community health planning
  • Humans
  • Interviews as Topic
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • community participation
  • health communication
  • population health
  • qualitative semi-structured interviews
  • Additional Document Info
    volume
  • 18
  • issue
  • 1