Network-Based Support to Help Community Coalition Members Choose and Use Strategies to Improve Child Health

Part of paid clinical trials in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Sponsor
University of Pittsburgh
Study ID
NCT07804550
Status
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Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Food Policy
  • Food Systems

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • Catalyzing Communities — BEHAVIORAL
    Catalyzing Communities is a coalition-centered implementation-support platform that includes facilitated coalition convening, group model building, technical assistance, and seed funding. The platform supports shared systems understanding, identification of action opportunities, selection of an evidence-informed strategy, action planning, and early coalition-led implementation. Activities may be delivered virtually or in person and continue across the active intervention period.
  • FICAS Implementation Intervention — BEHAVIORAL
    FICAS is a multicomponent implementation intervention delivered as an augmentation to Catalyzing Communities. It includes five strategies: using roster and network data to strengthen committee representation and connectivity; identifying and engaging influential or bridging coalition members; progressively assembling and reviewing research, practice, community, and policy evidence; using structured criteria and deliberation to select an evidence-informed strategy; and monitoring coalition network data to guide adaptations. Components are delivered at relevant milestones across evidence review, strategy selection, and early implementation.

Study Details

Community coalitions bring together residents and organizations to improve child health, but they may need support to identify and put research-supported strategies into practice. This study will examine whether a program called FICAS can be delivered successfully and is useful to coalition members. FICAS uses information about relationships within a coalition to help involve people with relevant perspectives, share evidence, compare possible strategies, make decisions, and adjust support as the coalition's work develops. Three community coalitions will participate. All three will eventually receive Catalyzing Communities, a program that provides facilitated meetings, collaborative planning, technical assistance, and funding for coalition-led action. One coalition will begin the program later, one will receive Catalyzing Communities alone, and one will receive Catalyzing Communities with FICAS. The study will help determine whether FICAS and the study procedures should be refined and tested in a larger study.

Key Dates

First listed
Sep 4, 2026
Start date
Jan 31, 2027
Status verified
Aug 2026
Primary completion
Jun 30, 2028
Completion
Jun 30, 2029

Study Design

Enrollment
3,300 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SEQUENTIAL
Primary purpose
OTHER

Arms

  • Other: Delayed Control
    During the initial comparison period, this coalition will receive study assessments and retention contacts but no active Catalyzing Communities or FICAS intervention. After the prespecified pre-crossover assessment, the coalition will cross over to Catalyzing Communities only. It will not receive the FICAS augmentation during the registered comparison period.
  • Active Comparator: Positive Control: Catalyzing Communities
    This coalition will receive the Catalyzing Communities base implementation-support platform, including coalition convening, group model building, technical assistance, and seed funding to support coalition-led selection and early implementation of an evidence-informed strategy. It will not receive the FICAS augmentation.
  • Experimental: Augmented Treatment: Catalyzing Communities Plus FICAS
    This coalition will receive the Catalyzing Communities base implementation-support platform plus the FICAS multicomponent implementation intervention. FICAS adds data-informed committee selection, opinion leader engagement, structured evidence review, structured decision support, and online network monitoring and adaptation.

Primary Outcome Measure

Participation and Reach [ Time Frame: From the beginning of participant recruitment through the primary assessment window, up to 12 months after intervention initiation ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
University of PittsburghPittsburghPennsylvania15216
Travis R Moore, PhD
[email protected]
512-914-4880
Travis R Moore, PhD (PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR)

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