Other groups have begun to report some successes with similar approaches, such as the “community-partnered participation approach” reported by Stockdale and colleagues, which was built on long-standing relationships between academic and community partners [44]. In addition, there has been at least one other deliberate effort to “hybridize” CBPR and randomized community trials in order to promote translation and uptake of study findings [24]. These efforts—like ours—had to confront issues of potential trade-offs between participation and rigor and varying definitions of what constitutes “communities” and what constitutes “engagement.” It is clear that the feasibility, generalizability, and effectiveness of hybrid approaches to community trials and CBPR are a critical topic for future research on the coproduction of knowledge in public health.
