Community Engagement to Enhance Child Survival and Early Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Evidence Review

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Figure 1 Community Engagement Continuum, developed by the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium (2011).

Figure 2 Adapted from the Integrated Model of Communication for Social Change, developed by and used with permission from Figueroa, Kincaid, Rani, and Lewis (2002). Copyright held by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Table 1. Cited participatory group process, community development/participatory formative research, or other program model applied by the studies reviewed

Process/model	Study
Community development models	Arrizon et al. (2011)Saha et al. (2013)
Community-based participatory research models	Ahmed et al. (1993)Ahmed et al. (1994)Marsh et al. (1996)Persson et al. (2012)Rickard et al. (2011)
Diffusion of innovations	Nayak et al. (2001)
Health belief model	Schwebel et al. (2009)
Health promotion	Houeto and Deccache (2007)
Most significant change technique	Underwood et al. (2012)
Participatory learning and action	Fottrell et al. (2013)Houweling et al. (2011)Lynch et al. (1994)Manandhar et al. (2004)Morrison et al. (2010)Nonaka et al. (2008)O'Rourke et al. (1998)Osrin et al. (2003)Rath et al. (2010)Roy et al. (2013)Tripathy et al. (2010)Tripathy et al. (2011)
Participatory rural appraisal	Lewycka et al. (2013)
Positive deviance and ethnographic techniques	Ahmed et al. (1993)Ahmed et al. (1994)Mackintosh et al. (2004)
Social-actor community Integrated Management of Childhood Illness	Harkins et al. (2008)
Socializing Evidence Participation Action	Omer et al. (2008)
Stages of change	Thevos et al. (2000)
Trials of improved practices	Kumar et al. (2008)Kumar et al. (2012)

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