Continued Benefits of a Technical Assistance Web Site to Local Tobacco Control Coalitions During a State Budget Shortfall

Buller, David B.; Young, Walter F.; Bettinghaus, Erwin P.; Borland, Ron; Walther, Joseph B.; Helme, Donald W.; Andersen, Peter E.; Cutter, Gary; Maloy, Julie A.

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“…Originally, coalitions had been pair matched on population characteristics and type of lead agency, but defunding broke several of the matched pairs. Analyses reported elsewhere showed that defunding appeared to affect the performance of coalitions assigned to the Basic website more than those assigned to the Enhanced website (Buller et al, 2011).…”

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“…Also, the Enhanced website had better communication tools than did the Basic website which enabled coalition leaders and members to obtain support from state tobacco control professionals and exchange ideas and experiences with other local coalitions. Not surprisingly given its additional content, interactivity, and deep structure, the Enhanced website was used more by coalitions than the Basic website (Buller et al, 2011).…”

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“…The two websites, termed the “Enhanced” and “Basic” websites, were produced and compared in a pair-matched group-randomized trial enrolling 34 local tobacco control coalitions formed in 2001 and funded with MSA funds by the Colorado State Tobacco Education and Prevention Program (STEPP). Our previous outcome analyses on coalition leader and member evaluations are reported elsewhere (Buller et al, 2011).…”

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A large and growing literature confirms that well-designed web-based programs can be effective in preventing or treating several chronic diseases. This study examined how the Internet can deliver information and train community activists and specifically tested the effects of web-based technical assistance on local tobacco control coalitions' efforts to use media advocacy to advance their agendas. The authors compared a highly interactive, Enhanced website (intervention) to a noninteractive, Basic text-based website (comparison) in Colorado communities. A total of 24 tobacco control coalitions led by local county health departments and nursing services were enrolled in the project and randomly assigned to use either the intervention or comparison website. A total of 73 local daily and weekly newspapers were identified in the service areas of 23 of the 24 coalitions. A posttest assessment of newspaper coverage was conducted to locate all newspaper articles with tobacco control information published between January 1 and April 9, 2004, the last 3 months of the intervention. Although there was no evidence of a treatment effect on the frequency of newspaper articles on tobacco-related issues, there was, however, evidence that newspapers in counties where the coalition had access to the Enhanced website printed more stories focused on local/regional issues and more anti-tobacco local/regional stories than in the counties where coalitions had access to the Basic website. Coalitions can improve their influence on local media for community tobacco control when high-quality online technical assistance, training, and resources are available to them.

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“…These findings are consistent with conceptual models suggesting coalition functioning has an important influence on a coalition’s ability to support program implementation (e.g., Brown, et al, 2012). Thus, our findings point to the importance of training and technical assistance efforts, which can improve coalition functioning (Buller et al, 2011; Feinberg, et al, 2002; Feinberg, Ridenour, et al, 2008; Riggs, Nakawatase, & Pentz, 2008). However, technical assistance may be most effective when it focuses on those aspects of coalition functioning that are most important for coalition outcomes, as not all coalition functioning characteristics equally predicted support for program implementation.…”

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Community coalitions have been promoted as a strategy to help overcome challenges to the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based prevention programs. This paper explores the characteristics of coalitions that enable the provision of implementation support for prevention programs in general, and for the implementation of evidence-based prevention programs with fidelity. Longitudinal cross-lagged panel models were used to study 74 Communities That Care (CTC) coalitions in Pennsylvania. These analyses provide evidence of a unidirectional influence of coalition functioning on the provision of implementation support. Coalition member knowledge of the CTC model best predicted the coalition’s provision of support for evidence-based program implementation with fidelity. Implications for developing and testing innovative methods for delivering training and technical assistance to enhance coalition member knowledge are discussed.

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Continued Benefits of a Technical Assistance Web Site to Local Tobacco Control Coalitions During a State Budget Shortfall

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