Table 3

Community settings and contexts data collection

Category	Outcome of interest	Data collection instrument	Procedure
School environment audit	Schools’ physical activity and healthy eating policies, practices and environments.	The survey comprises selected questions from the: Be Active Eat Well school environment audit68 and International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment school environment audit tool.69	The principal or nominee in each participating school will be invited to complete the survey. The survey will be collected at three timepoints concurrent with the individual-level data collection in primary schools (as shown in table 2).
Knowledge and Engagement	Assessment of baseline and change over time in the knowledge and engagement of stakeholders	The Knowledge and Engagement sections of the Stakeholder-driven Community Diffusion Survey.70	The protocol for assessment of baseline and change over time in the knowledge and engagement of stakeholders has been published separately.71 The survey will be administered to all members of the governance structure via the Qualtrics online platform prior to intervention commencement, and at five time points during the intervention.
Social Network Analysis (SNA)	Key measures, at the LGA level, will be network characteristics including network size, density, reciprocity, centralisation, connectivity and clustering, for both the collaboration and advice networks.	The SNA survey questions will be drawn from the Stakeholder-driven Community Diffusion Survey70 and will ask participants to indicate which other members of their community they have collaborated with, or sought advice from, on issues related to healthy eating and physical activity environments for children in their community, and the frequency of this collaborative work.	The SNA survey will be administered via the Qualtrics online platform. Participants will include the RESPOND central leadership, trained facilitators from within each community, and community leaders and members who participate in each of the GMB workshops. The survey will include, from the second time point forward, a question asking participants to indicate, on their own community CLD, where they are currently taking action, their perceived impact on that component of the system, and the ease or difficulty of influencing this area of the system.

CLD, causal loop diagram; GMB, group model building; LGA, local government area; RESPOND, Reflexive Evidence and Systems interventions to Prevention Obesity and Non-communicable Disease.