Table 2 Summary results of included studies
Author | Year | Location | Study design | Coalition name | Formation | Theoretical framework | Participants | Exposure (coalition characteristics) measurement tool | Outcome indicators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Allen et al. [39] | 2012 | USA: Mid-west | Analytical cross-sectional | Family Violence Coordinating Councils (FVCC) | Unclear | Own, including collaborative capacity, social capital, and empowerment concepts | 671 participants 21 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Social capital, member empowerment, community readiness/capacity, institutionalised change |
Anderson-Carpenter et al. [46] | 2017 | USA: Kansas | Pre-test, post-test | Kansas Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF-SIG) | Policy/funding response | Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research Communtiy Readiness Model | 7 coalitions | Self-rated survey Document scan | Community readiness/capacity |
Brown et al. [28] | 2017 | Mexico | Analytical cross-sectional | Red de Coaliciones Comunitarias de Mexico | Unclear | Collaborative capacity (Foster-Fishman 2001) Work group (Hackman 1987) | 211 participants 17 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Community readiness/capacity, community improvement attributable to the coalition, sustainability planning |
Calancie et al. [44] | 2018 | USA, Canada, Native American Tribes and First Nations | Not specified (analytical cross sectional) | Food Policy Councils (FPCs) | Various | FPC Framework (Allen et al. 2012) | 354 participants 95 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Social capital, perceived effectiveness |
Cicognani et al. [29] | 2019 | Italy: Emilia-Romagna region | Retrospective, cross-sectional | Guadagnare Salute in contesti di Comunita [Gaining health in community contexts] | Unclear | Sense of community (Nowell & Boyd 2010, 2014) Empowerment (Perkins & Zimmerman 1995; Powell & Peterson 2014) | 238 participants 6 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Empowerment, perceived efficacy, community readiness/capacity |
Crowley et al. [45] | 2000 | USA | Not specified (retrospective cohort) | Community Coalition Program | Policy/funding response | Community-based prevention | Participants not specified >123 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Community readiness/capacity, risk and protective factor prevalence (knowledge, behaviour, attitudes, environment/systems) |
Donchin et al. [30] | 2006 | Israel | Analytical cross-sectional | Healthy Cities Israel | Policy/funding response | Health for All & Agenda 21 | 18 participants 18 coalitions | Survey with researcher ratings | Policy and political support, policy change, best practice health promotion activities, environmental protection actions |
Drach-Zahavy et al. [31] | 2006 | Israel | Analytical cross-sectional | Healthy Community Centers | Policy/funding response | Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion | 37 participants 37 coalitions | Interview | Perceived effectiveness |
Duran et al. [32] | 2019 | USA | Analytical cross-sectional | not specified & various | Unclear | Community-Based Participatory Research | 450 participants 164 coalitions | Interview | Partnership synergy, partner and agency capacity, equal power, partnership sustainability, community health and transformation |
Emshoff et al. [47] | 2007 | USA: Georgia | Not specified (cohort) | Family Connection | Unclear | Not specified | participants not specified 157 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Shared and inclusive decision making, financial resources, accessible services |
Feinberg et al. [33] | 2004 | USA: Pennsylvania | Analytical cross-sectional | Communities That Care | Research project | Own model based on community readiness and organisational development frameworks | 203 participants 21 coalitions | Interview | Perceived effectiveness |
Flewelling et al. [12] | 2016 | USA: 26 states | Not specified (cohort) | SPF SIG | Policy/funding response | CSAP Strategic Prevention Framework | 318 coalitions (process) 129 coalitions (outcome) | Self-rated survey | Alcohol consumption |
Kegler et al. [34] | 2012 | USA: California | Analytical cross-sectional | California Healthy Cities and Communities | Policy/funding response | Community Coalition Action Theory | 231 participants 19 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Community capacity, social capital, sense of community |
Lawless et al. [41] | 2010 | UK: England | Not specified (cohort) | New Deal Communities | Policy/funding response | Government policy focusing on evidence, strategy, and locality | 19,574 (wave 1) 19,633 (wave 2) 15,792 (wave 3) participants (outcome data) 39 participants (coalition data) 39 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Spend, outputs, project-level reviews, improved schools, police and health facilities |
Mansergh et al. [50] | 1996 | USA: Indianapolis & Pasadena | Case study | Day One Coordinating Council, I-STAR Community Action Council | Research project Grassroots | Butterfoss et al. (1993) collaboration model | 100 participants 2 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Coalition efficiency, outcome efficiency (AOD use), interagency coordination |
Nowell et al. [47] | 2011 | USA: Mid-west | Mixed methods | Not specified | Grassroots | Authors’ own | 614 organisations 51 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Partner organisation capacity |
Oetzel et al. [35] | 2018 | USA | Analytical cross-sectional & case study | Research for Improved Health study | Unclear | Community-Based Participatory Research | 650 participants 200 coalitions | Interview Self-rated survey Document scan | Agency capacity building, personal capacity building, sustainability of the work |
Powell et al. [36] | 2014 | USA | Cross sectional | SPF SIG | Policy/funding response | Psychological Empowerment and Organisational Efforts | 138 participants 11 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Psychological empowerment, sense of community, perceived effectiveness |
Ramanadhan et al. [37] | 2012 | USA | Analytical cross-sectional | Massachusetts Community Network for Cancer Education, Research, and Training (MassCONECT) | Policy/funding response | Community-Based Participatory Research | 38 participants 3 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Community activities, grants and publications, policy engagement |
Valente et al. [49] | 2007 | USA: Massachusetts, Colorado, Adkansas, Iowa & MIssouri | Randomised controlled trial | STEP (Steps Toward Effective Prevention) | Research project | Social network theory | 415 (baseline) 406 (follow up) participants 24 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Benchmark achievement, prevention activity progress |
Wagner et al. [42] | 2009 | USA: Colorado | Not specified (pre-test, post-test) | Not specified | Unclear | Social capital theory | 181 participants 10 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Social capital |
Watson-Thompson et al. [51] | 2008 | USA: Kansas City | Quasi-experimental, interrupted time-series design | Ivanhoe Neighbourhood Council & Northeast Coalition | Grassroots | Institute of Medicine’s Framework for Collaborative Public Health Action in Communities | 40 participants 2 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Instances of community and systems change |
Watson-Thompson et al. [52] | 2014 | USA: Mid-west | Between-group randomised controlled trial | Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) | Unclear | Institute of Medicine’s Framework for Collaborative Public Health Action in Communities | 27 participants 10 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Community change (e.g. policy, practice) |
Wells et al. [48] | 2009 | USA: Pennsylvania | Mixed methods | Communities That Care | Unclear | Organisational theory (Hackman) | 1,081 (exposure) 1,502 (outcome) participants 45 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Perceived coalition impact |
Yang et al. [38] | 2012 | USA | Analytical cross-sectional | CADCA | Unclear | Socio-ecological Framework & Community Problem Solving and Change Framework | 551 participants 551 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Comprehensiveness of strategies, engagement with systems change, facilitating community change |
Zeldin et al. [43] | 2016 | Malaysia | Not specified (quasi/ pre-test post-test) | Not applicable | Policy/funding response | Youth-adult partnership | 357 (wave 1) 207 (wave 2) participants 3 coalitions | Self-rated survey | Youth empowerment |
Author | Outcome measurement tool | SDOH Initiative focus | SDOH measurement tool | Analysis | Analysis type | Analysis level | Mediating effects observed | Quality score (0-8) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Allen et al. [39] | Survey (coalition members) | Family violence | Not evaluated | Hierarchical linear modelling | Reg/Cor Modelling | Individual, coalition | Yes | 3 |
Anderson-Carpenter et al. [46] | Interview (coalition members) | Underage drinking | Not evaluated | Paired-sample t-tests and Two-tailed Person correlations | Sig diff Reg/Cor | Geographical region | Not analysed | 6 |
Brown et al. [28] | Survey (coalition members) | Drug use, violence, crime | Not evaluated | Multiple regression | Reg/Cor | Coalition | Not analysed | 6 |
Calancie et al. [44] | Survey (coalition members) | Food environments | Not evaluated | Structural equation modelling | Modelling | Individual, coalition | Yes | 6 |
Cicognani et al. [29] | Survey (coalition members) | Healthy eating, physical activity, smoking, alcohol consumption, health inequalities | Not evaluated | Regression & SEM | Reg/Cor Modelling | Coalition | Yes | 3 |
Crowley et al. [45] | Survey (coalition members) | Substance abuse | Self report survey (coalition) | Structural equation modelling | Modelling | Not specified | Not analysed | 4 |
Donchin et al. [30] | Survey (coalition members) | Health equity | Not evaluated | Spearman’s correlation & ANOVA | Reg/Cor | Coalition | Not analysed | 3 |
Drach-Zahavy et al. [31] | Interview (coalition members) | Smoking, nutrition, physical activity, health conditions | Not evaluated | Pearson intercorrelations & hierarchical regression analysis | Reg/Cor | Coalition | Not analysed | 4 |
Duran et al. [32] | Survey (coalition members) | Not specified | Not evaluated | Univariate regression | Reg/Cor | Individual | Not analysed | 3 |
Emshoff et al. [47] | Survey (coalition members) | Early years | Self report survey (coalition) | Multi-level modelling | Reg/Cor Modelling | Not specified | Yes | 4 |
Feinberg et al. [33] | Interview (coalition members) | Teen substance use, violence, educational attainment, pregnancy | Not evaluated | Intercorrelations, scatterplots & mediational analysis | Reg/Cor | Coalition | Yes | 5 |
Flewelling et al. [12] | Survey (community) | Underage drinking | Community survey | Mixed model regression | Reg/Cor | Coalition | Not analysed | 6 |
Kegler et al. [34] | Survey (coalition members) | Youth development, civic capacity building, neighbourhood improvement, education (et al.) | Not evaluated | Multi-level mediation analysis | Reg/Cor Modelling | Individual, coalition | Yes | 4 |
Lawless et al. [41] | Survey (coalition members) | Crime, the community, housing and the physical environment, health, education, employment | Community survey | z-scores of a composite index of relative change | Sig diff | Geographic region | Not analysed | 2 |
Mansergh et al. [50] | Survey (coalition members) Document scan | Alcohol and other drug use | Not evaluated | ANCOVA & MANCOVA | Reg/Cor | Individual, coalition | Not analysed | 5 |
Nowell et al. [47] | Survey (coalition members) | Domestic violence | Not evaluated | SEM, ANOVA & OLS multiple linear regression | Reg/Cor Modelling | Individual | Not analysed | 5 |
Oetzel et al. [35] | Survey (coalition members) Interview (coalition members) Document scan Observational data collection | Not specified | Case study & survey | SEM | Modelling | Coalition | Not analysed | 5 |
Powell et al. [36] | Survey (coalition members) | Alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use | Not evaluated | SEM | Modelling | Individual | Yes | 5 |
Ramanadhan et al. [37] | Survey (coalition members) | Health inequities | Not evaluated | Multiple linear regression models | Reg/Cor | Not specified | Not analysed | 4 |
Valente et al. [49] | Survey (coalition members) | Drug prevention | Not evaluated | Confirmatory factor analysis & regression analysis | Reg/Cor | Coalition | Yes | 2 |
Wagner et al. [42] | Survey (coalition members) Interview (coalition members) | Natural resources management | Not evaluated | Multiple regression analysis, general linear model, mediation analysis | Reg/Cor | Individual, coalition, all coalitions | Yes | 6 |
Watson-Thompson et al. [51] | Interview (coalition members) Document scan | Neighbourhood improvement | Not evaluated | Between-group comparison | Sig diff | Coalition | Not analysed | 4 |
Watson-Thompson et al. [52] | Survey (coalition members) Document scan Observational data collection | Substance abuse | Not evaluated | Paired sample t-test | Sig diff | Coalition | Not analysed | 4 |
Wells et al. [48] | Survey (coalition members) | Adolescent risk factors | Not evaluated | Bivariate correlations & regression model | Reg/Cor | Coalition | Not analysed | 5 |
Yang et al. [38] | Survey (coalition members) | Substance abuse | Not evaluated | SEM | Modelling | Not specified | Not analysed | 5 |
Zeldin et al. [43] | Survey (youth) | Youth empowerment, civic engagement | Not evaluated | Other modelling / pathway analysis | Modelling | Not specified | Yes | 7 |