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Participatory Action Planning to Address the Opioid Crisis in a Rural Virginia Community Using the SEED Method.

ABSTRACT: The SEED Method is a multi-stakeholder approach that was created to involve diverse stakeholders in the development and prioritization of research questions using community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles. Here we describe an adaptation of the SEED Method that focuses on developing and prioritizing strategies for addressing a health problem and bringing stakeholders together to develop and implement community action plans based on those strategies. We describe steps for implementing the SEED Method for community action planning and the results of a case study in a rural Virginia community with high opioid prescription and mortality rates. A participatory research team worked with three groups of Topic stakeholders to gather data, develop conceptual models, and create and prioritize strategies for reducing prescription and non-prescription opioid misuse and overdoses. Each group came up with 19 to 25 strategies and prioritized their top five, which included actions, services or programs, strategies, policies, and system changes. Attendees at community action planning meetings reviewed the 15 prioritized strategies, proposed three additional strategies, and prioritized their top choices. Community stakeholders started four work groups to implement the selected strategies in collaboration with the research team.

SUBMITTER: Zimmerman EB

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7451262 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Participatory Action Planning to Address the Opioid Crisis in a Rural Virginia Community Using the SEED Method.

Zimmerman Emily B EB Rafie Carlin L CL Moser Dawn E DE Hargrove Angelina A Noe Toni T Mills Courtnaye Adams CA

Journal of participatory research methods 20200721 1

The SEED Method is a multi-stakeholder approach that was created to involve diverse stakeholders in the development and prioritization of research questions using community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles. Here we describe an adaptation of the SEED Method that focuses on developing and prioritizing strategies for addressing a health problem and bringing stakeholders together to develop and implement community action plans based on those strategies. We describe steps for implementi ...[more]

PMID: 32864659

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