Characteristics, enablers, and barriers to the community health and wellbeing assessment component of the health promotion practice cycle: a scoping review protocol

Abstract

Objective: The proposed review will describe the characteristics, enablers, and barriers to the community health and well-being assessment (CHWA) component of the health promotion practice cycle. Introduction: CHWA guides health promotion action in communities and populations. A “critical” approach to CHWA can be adopted, which addresses the social, political, cultural, economic, commercial, and environmental determinants of health and well-being to enhance health equity for priority communities and populations. Although tools exist to guide such a critical approach, little is known about the extent to which these tools are being used or the barriers and enablers to applying best practice CHWA. Such evidence is needed to inform future health promotion CHWA and research. Inclusion criteria: This review will consider literature that describes CHWA conducted in health promotion practice, focusing on an organizational, social, or geographical community or population. Literature that focuses on clinical practice or a specific health condition will be excluded. Methods: Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, and CINAHL (EBSCOhost) will be searched to identify peer-reviewed articles. Google Scholar and Google, as well as Public Health, Health & Medical, and Nursing and Allied Health (ProQuest) databases will be searched for gray literature. Articles will be screened and data extracted by 2 or more independent reviewers. The data extraction tool will be developed by the reviewers based on the JBI template and a critical health promotion approach to CHWA. Data will be analyzed and presented as frequency tables and narrative summaries of the characteristics, enablers, and barriers to CHWA. Details of the protocol are available on Open Science Framework: osf.io/jq8th/