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community involvement

Advancing nursing science through community advisory boards: working effectively across diverse communities

The movement toward community-engaged research is well aligned with nursing's strong tradition of engaging individuals, families, and communities in designing and evaluating nursing care. As such, nurse scientists should consider engaging the recipients of care in the research process. Community advisory boards are a common way in which communities are engaged in research.

Improving Healthy Dietary Behaviors, Nutrition Knowledge, and Self-Efficacy Among Underserved School Children With Parent & Community Involvement

BACKGROUND: University–community partnerships through coordinated school health programs (CSHP) can play a key role in decreasing child obesity. The main objective of this study was to measure over a 1-year period whether a CSHP with parental, school, and home-based components to promote optimal nutrition will reduce BMI percentiles and z-scores and improve dietary behaviors in a sample of low-income, school-aged children.

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