Browsing by Subject "Community-engaged research"

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    A co-designed, community-based intensive health behavior intervention promotes participation and engagement in youth with risk factors for type 2 diabetes
    (Frontiers Media, 2023-12-01) Pike, Julie M.; Haberlin-Pittz, Kathryn M.; Alharbi, Basmah S.; Perkins, Susan M.; Hannon, Tamara S.; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    Background: Obesity among youth (children and adolescents) is associated with increased risk for youth-onset type 2 diabetes. Lifestyle change can delay or prevent the development of type 2 diabetes, yet real-world implementation of health behavior recommendations is challenging. We previously engaged youth with risk factors for type 2 diabetes, their caregivers, and professionals in a human-centered design study to co-design a lifestyle change program. Here we report the outcomes for this 16-week co-designed lifestyle change program for youth at risk for T2D and their caregivers. Research design and methods: This single-arm family-based cohort study included youth aged 7-18 years, with BMI ≥85th percentile (overweight or obese) and at least one additional risk factor for type 2 diabetes, and their caregivers. Clinical (BMI, HbA1c), self-reported physical activity, and quality of life outcomes were evaluated at baseline (B), post-intervention (M4), and 1 year (M12) following the intervention. Results: Seventy-eight youth (mean age 12.4 ± 2.7y, 67% female, 37.8% white) and 65 caregivers were included in the data analysis. Youth baseline BMI z-scores (2.26 ± 0.47) and HbA1c (5.3 ± 0.3) were unchanged at follow up time points [BMI z-scores M4 (2.25 ± 0.52), M12 (2.16 ± 0.58), p-value 0.46], [HbA1c M4 (5.3 ± 0.3), M12 (5.2 ± 0.3), p-value (0.04)]. Youth reported increased physical activity at M4 (p = 0.004), but not at M12. Youth quality of life scores increased at M12 (p=0.01). Families who attended at least one session (n=41) attended an average of 9 out of 16 sessions, and 37 percent of families attended 13 or more sessions. Conclusion: A co-designed, community-based lifestyle intervention promotes increased physical activity, improved quality of life, maintenance of BMI z-scores and HbA1c, and engagement in youth with risk factors for T2D.
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    Community-Engaged Research. How IUPUI faculty engages the community in research activities
    (2019-05-21) Garcia, Silvia
    Academic researchers who conduct research with and in the community use different approaches that reflect the richness of epistemologies and disciplinary backgrounds that inform community scholarship. Although there is extensive literature explaining the principles and methods of “community-engaged research”, there seem to be different understandings of how these principles translate into the research practice. This work describes how IUPUI faculty members that claimed in a survey to be community-engaged scholars involve the community in research activities. We analyzed the narratives of fifty-one tenured and tenure-track faculty members who were interviewed to explore their lived experiences in their work with communities on research or creative activity projects. Four predominant practices of engagement were identified in their narratives. These practices reflect differences in their research paradigm, the expected research outcomes, and their conceptualization of the participant community.
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    Faculty experiences with community engaged research: Challenges, successes, and recommendations for the future.
    (2018-10) Weiss, H. Anne; Wendling, Lauren; Norris, Kristin E.
    Methodology for an institutional research study that explores the lived experiences of faculty, who to some extent, work with the community - its people, organizations, assets, etc. - when conducting research and creative activity.
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    More Than Just an Academic Exercise: Conjoining Critical Policy Analysis and Community-Engaged Research as Embodiment of Political Action
    (IUI Office of Community Engagement, 2021) Welton, Anajale; Cumings Mansfield, Katherine; Robert H. McKinney School of Law
    Critical policy analysis (CPA) is a means by which to critique policy and promote agency, equity, and justice. However, most CPA scholars examine political discourse from a distance rather than actively participate in political processes. Meanwhile, there's a growing interest in community-engaged research whereby academics partner with community members in their research endeavors. In this article, we consider the value of conjoining the philosophies and processes behind both CPA and community-engaged research to create more powerful and meaningful research endeavors that potentially can lead to political action and policy change. For this article, we present a subset of data from a larger study that asked education policy scholars how critical policy analysis informs their work and what they consider to be key objectives of this approach. We focus on a subsection of participants who demonstrated how and what ways they consider community-engaged scholarship to be an essential component of CPA.
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    Prevention of youth health risk behaviors: the importance of context
    (Indiana Public Health Training Center, 2014-04-08) Snyder, Frank J
    A presentation regarding the research and implementation of interventions for risky youth behavior. Behaviors discussed will include substance abuse, violence, academics, health, obesity, and home environments.