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Context: Contributing to the evidence base, by disseminating findings through written products such as journal articles, is a core competency for public health practitioners. Disseminating practice-based evidence that supports improving cardiovascular health is necessary for filling literature gaps, generating health policies and laws, and translating evidence-based strategies into practice. However, a gap exists in the dissemination of practice-based evidence in public health. Public health practitioners face various dissemination barriers (eg, lack of time and resources, staff turnover) which, more recently, were compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic., Program: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP) partnered with the National Network of Public Health Institutes to implement a multimodal approach to build writing capacity among recipients funded by three DHDSP cooperative agreements. This project aimed to enhance public health practitioners' capacity to translate and disseminate their evaluation findings., Implementation: Internal evaluation technical assistance expertise and external subject matter experts helped to implement this project and to develop tailored multimodal capacity-building activities. These activities included online peer-to-peer discussion posts, virtual writing workshops, resource documents, one-to-one writing coaching sessions, an online toolkit, and a supplemental issue in a peer-reviewed journal., Evaluation: Findings from an informal process evaluation demonstrate positive results. Most participants were engaged and satisfied with the project's activities. Across eight workshops, participants reported increased knowledge (≥94%) and enhanced confidence in writing (≥98%). The majority of participants (83%) reported that disseminating evaluation findings improved program implementation. Notably, 30 abstracts were submitted for a journal supplement and 23 articles were submitted for consideration., Discussion: This multimodal approach serves as a promising model that enhances public health practitioners' capacity to disseminate evaluation findings during times of evolving health needs., Competing Interests: The authors declare no potential conflicts of interests with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this article. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention., (Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.)

Introduction: With the increasing use of the internet for health information, it is essential to prioritize resources that match the reading level of patients and parents. Limited health literacy is a notable issue in the United States, creating a financial burden and negatively affecting patient outcomes. This study aimed to assess the availability and readability of pediatric hospital web pages concerning two prevalent spine conditions in children, spondylolisthesis and spondylolysis, specifically examining whether the available resources meet the recommended sixth grade reading level., Methods: A total of 179 pediatric hospital web pages were assessed for their availability and readability of spondylolisthesis and spondylolysis patient information. The web pages' readability was assessed using five readability formulae. Descriptive statistics and Student t-tests were performed on the collected scores with significance set at P < 0.05., Results: Among the analyzed hospitals, 40.2% had no information on spondylolisthesis or spondylolysis, 20.1% mentioned treating these conditions, 7.8% had < 100 dedicated words, and only 31.8% had dedicated web pages with more than 100 words on these conditions. The average reading grade level for the evaluated web pages was 12.0, indicating a high school education level is required for comprehension. None of the web pages were written below the recommended sixth grade reading level., Discussion: The readability of the limited resources was markedly higher than the recommended reading level. In addition, this study emphasizes the need for enhanced accessibility and readability of online patient information from pediatric hospitals to improve parental comprehension and informed decision-making. Physicians should consider identifying online resources that they consider of high quality and acceptable readability to support better patient understanding and outcomes., (Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.)