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  • Suzanne Dolwick Grieb, Rebecca (Becky) Delafield, Adrienne Dillard, and Bridget (Puni) Kekauoha

Welcome to Progress in Community Health Partnerships’ latest episode of our Beyond the Manuscript podcast. In each volume of the Journal, the editors select one article for our Beyond the Manuscript post-study interview with the authors. Beyond the Manuscript provides the authors the opportunity to tell listeners what they would want to know about the project beyond what went into the final manuscript. The Associate Editor who handles the featured article conducts our Beyond the Manuscript interview.

In this episode of Beyond the Manuscript, Associate Editor Suzanne Dolwick Grieb interviews Becky Delafield, Adrienne Dillard, and Puni Kekauoha, authors of “A Community-Based Participatory Research Guided Model for Dissemination of Evidence-Based Interventions.”

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Suzanne Dolwick Grieb:

Thank you for joining me today and providing the journal’s readers with some additional information about the work presented in your article, “A Community-Based Participatory Research-Guided Model for Dissemination of Evidence-Based Interventions.” So, first, if you could, please, let’s start by just giving the listeners an overview of your model.

Becky Delafield:

Well, the model really started out with the idea that we wanted to be able to disseminate this intervention that was developed through our community-based participatory research project with two objectives: not just getting the model – I’m sorry, getting the intervention out to new communities, but also being able to build capacity in a way that empowers and directly benefits the people who are participating in the implementation and receive the intervention. So that was kind of the genesis of this idea.

And so the model that we created to do the dissemination, at the heart of it is a mentoring relationship. And those relationships are between the mentors, who are people with experience developing the intervention through this community-based participatory research approach, and then the mentees, who are the new community who are going to hopefully adopt and adapt and implement the intervention, and then the academic partners. So that, for our project, was the University of Hawaii. And they provide technical assistance in the model and kind of take a less prominent role than they did initially when the intervention was being developed, because now our mentors, who have been part of that, have built their capacity to do a lot of the training and provide the guidance and support to the mentees.

And then all of these relationships and all of these actors are within this framework of the CBPR principles, and so we really wanted that to come through in our dissemination of the intervention. And so the ideas of co-equal partnership and shared decision making and opportunities for empowerment and building community capacity are really a big part of why we ended up kind of developing this for our project. [End Page 597]

Becky Delafield:

And then all of these interactions we wanted to recognize context as well, so there’s a shared context where we tried to match the mentors with mentees that had similar maybe affiliations or served similar communities. But then also there’s this wider environment that we saw where a lot of times there are differences between the mentors and the mentees that also influence the success of the dissemination or the kind of needs that the different participants have within this whole process.

Suzanne Dolwick Grieb:

Great. Thanks for that. So this model was created by the partners as you were working on the PILI ‘Ohana Lifestyle Program, which you described briefly in the article as an intervention tailored for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Peoples to promote weight loss and management. So at what point in the process of working on this lifestyle program did the partners identify a need for a dissemination model, and then how did that model develop within your partnership?

Becky Delafield:

The mechanism that funded us, it was a mechanism through the National Institutes...

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