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Title: Comprehensive Participatory Planning and Evaluation (CPPE) Process Strengthens the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Method to Improve Health in Rural Delta Communities.

Author
item Bogle, Margaret
item CHAMPAGNE, CATHERINE - PENNINGTON BIO MED CTR
item McCabe Sellers, Beverly
item WEBER, JUDITH - ACHRI
item HYMAN, EDITH - UNIV OF ARK PINE BLUFF
item MCGEE, BERNESTINE - SOUTHERN UNIV AND A&M
item PREWITT, ELAINE - UAMS
item YADRICK, KATHY - UNIV SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

Submitted to: International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/1/2007
Publication Date: 6/23/2007
Citation: Bogle, M.L., Champagne, C., McCabe Sellers, B.J., Weber, J., Hyman, E., McGee, B., Prewitt, E., Yadrick, K. 2007. Comprehensive Participatory Planning and Evaluation (CPPE) process strengthens the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) method to improve health in rural Delta communities [abstract]. Proceeding of International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. p. 119.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Our purpose was to describe community workshops on the CPPE process to identify the top three nutrition- and health-related issues that could be addressed by nutrition and physical activity intervention research. The Lower Mississippi Delta Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative (Delta NIRI) is a consortium of USDA Agricultural Research Service, seven universities, and cooperative extension in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Community Research Groups include these partners and state using community-based participatory methods. The Delta NIRI vision is "improved health of residents of the Lower Mississippi Delta through nutrition intervention research". This is a rural area with high rates of poverty and unemployment. Workshops in the CPPE involved assessing the problem, identifying the causes and potential interventions, planning the interventions, monitoring and data management and evaluation. Lack of physical activity was one of the top three issues in each community. Subsequently and independently, walking programs were suggested as interventions to improve physical activity. Participation rates in the CPPE workshops were high and increased. Two communities designed intervention research protocols around the walking program concept. CBPR methods were used in designing the communities. These techniques of CPPE have the potential for engaging other rural communities in solving their own problems related to physical activity, especially using the CBPR methods.