Participants

The ISCCCE team invited staff members from 31 Massachusetts FQHCs to participate. We sampled one to three people within five diverse job type categories — leadership, clinical, QI, community direct-service, or community outreach/engagement. Respondents also self-reported their roles (they could check multiple) on the survey, which includes these categories as well as management, administrative, referrals, consultation, and data support. Staff included in the survey were actively engaged in an ISCCCE pilot research study and/or participated in the Center’s capacity building activities. At FQHCs where staff with specific job types were not engaged in ISCCCE activities, the primary contact was asked to provide a roster of staff names in each job type. For job types with more than 3 staff members at the FQHC, study personnel randomly selected participants using a random number generator.

For the purposes of this study, the survey used branching logic to have respondents who selected community direct-service, community outreach/engagement, or management roles complete items pertaining to EBI implementation. These roles were selected given the alignment of their positions to the community partnership aims of this study.