The first construct, motives for participation, was measured using a set of items developed by the study team involving intervention site coalition coordinator perceptions of the importance of various potential motivations for involvement in the study including (1) direct benefit to one's community, (2) direct benefit to the intervention communities as a whole, (3) contributions to knowledge, and (4) being part of a national research study. The stem of this question was “this study is important to me because….” Seven potential motives, based on these four benefits, were presented as response options, shown in Table 3.
