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Area of Science:

  • Community-engaged research
  • Health equity
  • Academic-community partnerships

Background:

  • Building trusting community-academic partnerships is crucial for addressing health inequity.
  • A gap exists in evidence-based methods for cultivating these partnerships.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design, facilitate, and evaluate a mixed-stakeholder training program using improvisational theater to enhance communication skills.
  • To foster equitable community-academic partnerships within the All of Us research program.

Main Methods:

  • A co-learning curriculum combining community-based participatory research principles and improvisational theater techniques was developed.
  • A pre-post survey measured communication competence (Self-Perceived Communication Competence Scale) and comfort with communication styles.
  • Paired t tests analyzed changes in scores for all participants, community members, and researchers.

Main Results:

  • Sixty-nine participants (26 community members, 38 researchers) completed the training.
  • Significant improvements were observed in both Self-Perceived Communication Competence Scale and comfort with communication styles for all participants.
  • Researchers reported significant improvements in Self-Perceived Communication Competence Scale scores, while community members did not.

Conclusions:

  • The "Communicating to Engage" program successfully improved communication styles among mixed stakeholders.
  • Researchers benefited more from the training than community members, indicating a need for further development.
  • Improvisational theater-based learning offers a unique approach to building community-academic partnerships for health equity.