Research Article
Community Engagement in Health Promotion: Results from a Realist Multiple Case Study
Table 5
Methods and topics in group interviews.
| Interview round | Methods | Goal | Topics |
| I—at the start of each project | EffectenArena approach [26]-facilitates an open, informative discussion between stakeholders and thereby promotes learning and dialogue within teams | Identify main strategies to create a ToC | (Assumed) activities, outcomes, conditions, investors, and beneficiaries |
| II—approximately mid-term | Timeline method [27, 28] | Keep track of developments, (changing) perspectives and strategies, as well as (preliminary) outputs and outcomes | Reflection on project-specific ToC | Perceived highs and lows over the first years |
| III—projects finished subsidised activities | Semistructured interview guide, additional project-specific preparation by researcher based on available data | Identify project outputs and outcomes, related mechanisms. Reflect on initial assumptions in ToC | Projects perspective on outputs and outcomes | Possible mechanisms | Reflection on ToC |
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