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| Script | Purpose | Outcomes |
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| Hopes and fears | To elicit and to establish group expectations for a GMB session | List of participants’ hopes and fears with regard to GMB workshop |
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| Graphs over time | To engage participants at the beginning of GMB session in framing the problem, initiating mapping, eliciting variables, and gathering input in deciding the reference modes for the workshop | Candidate variables for the dynamic model or the map |
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| Dots | To vote for what participants considered to be the most important drivers of the modeled problem (i.e., childhood obesity, trends over time identified in the graphs over time exercise) | Prioritized choices and the rank of importance of factors contributing to the problem development and persistence over time (i.e., drivers of childhood obesity) |
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| Causal-loop diagram (CLD) | To explore the causal factors and the consequences of childhood obesity among Chinese Americans in their community; to pinpoint connections and the nature of the relationship between these factors; and to visualize various interactive causal pathways affecting the weight status of Chinese American children | A causal loop diagram which may be described either in a report (in the case that only a qualitative model is built), or be used as a dynamic hypothesis on the basis of which formal modeling starts |
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| Model review | To present a preliminary synthesis causal loop diagram for review and critique by workshop participants | A revised causal loop diagram and articulation of key feedback loops, narratives, themes, and group understanding of the correspondence between model structure and system behavior |
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| Action ideas | To generate a list of intervention ideas based on the causal structure from the synthesis causal loop diagram | A list of intervention ideas including a description of how those intervention ideas may act on the system, including feasibility and barriers and facilitators to impact |
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