Site engagement in implementation research: Introducing SEAMLIS as a conceptual and measurement framework.

IF 3 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Health and Justice Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI:10.1186/s40352-025-00349-1

Sarah D Jones, John P Bartkowski, Steven Belenko, Jennifer E Becan, Faye S Taxman, Gail A Wasserman, Gregory A Aarons, Larkin S McReynolds, Cheyenne Dolbear, Xiaohe Xu

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Abstract

Background: Multisite implementation research in justice and health settings often does not systematically assess differential degrees of project involvement among participating sites, despite its implications for both research and the intervention. Tracking organization and participant involvement across sites, when attempted, has typically entailed the use of discrete and sometimes disjointed fidelity measures that may not accurately reflect engagement with a project. This article advances a more comprehensive and sophisticated conceptual model for measuring and monitoring site engagement. This conceptual model was developed from a literature review of the implementation science and related disciplines while being informed by multisite project implementation experience. We propose the Site Engagement Activity Model Leveraging Implementation Science (SEAMLIS), a conceptual model that holistically identifies the breadth of agency participation (diverse activities such as trainings, meetings, etc.) and duration of site engagement (participation levels from inception to completion) to be measured, assessed, and reported.

Case presentation: We also describe Juvenile Justice Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS), a 36-site implementation research project, as an illustrative case example of our proposed model. We then operationalize all proposed domains and subdomains and specify key measures from the project.

Conclusions: We provide analytical recommendations for the application and future research of the proposed model in health and justice settings. In multisite implementation research, site engagement could be fruitfully used as an independent, dependent, or intervening (moderating or mediating) variable.

Trial registration: NCT02672150, February 3, 2016.

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实施研究中的现场参与：将seamis作为概念和度量框架引入。

背景：司法和卫生环境中的多地点实施研究通常没有系统地评估参与地点之间项目参与的不同程度，尽管它对研究和干预都有影响。当试图跟踪组织和参与者跨站点的参与时，通常需要使用离散的，有时是脱节的保真度度量，这些度量可能不能准确地反映对项目的参与。本文提出了一个更全面和复杂的概念模型来测量和监测现场参与。这个概念模型是根据对实施科学和相关学科的文献综述而发展起来的，同时受到多地点项目实施经验的影响。我们提出利用实施科学的现场参与活动模型（SEAMLIS），这是一个概念模型，它从整体上确定机构参与的广度（各种活动，如培训、会议等）和现场参与的持续时间（从开始到完成的参与水平），以进行测量、评估和报告。案例介绍：我们还描述了青少年司法干预的少年司法翻译研究（JJ-TRIALS），这是一个36个站点的实施研究项目，作为我们提出的模型的一个说明性案例。然后，我们操作所有建议的域和子域，并指定项目中的关键度量。结论：我们为提出的模型在卫生和司法环境中的应用和未来研究提供了分析建议。在多站点实施研究中，站点参与度可以作为独立、依赖或干预（调节或中介）变量。试验注册：NCT02672150, 2016年2月3日。

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Health and Justice Social Sciences-Law

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4.10

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8.60%

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审稿时长

13 weeks

期刊介绍： Health & Justice is open to submissions from public health, criminology and criminal justice, medical science, psychology and clinical sciences, sociology, neuroscience, biology, anthropology and the social sciences, and covers a broad array of research types. It publishes original research, research notes (promising issues that are smaller in scope), commentaries, and translational notes (possible ways of introducing innovations in the justice system). Health & Justice aims to: Present original experimental research on the area of health and well-being of people involved in the adult or juvenile justice system, including people who work in the system; Present meta-analysis or systematic reviews in the area of health and justice for those involved in the justice system; Provide an arena to present new and upcoming scientific issues; Present translational science—the movement of scientific findings into practice including programs, procedures, or strategies; Present implementation science findings to advance the uptake and use of evidence-based practices; and, Present protocols and clinical practice guidelines. As an open access journal, Health & Justice aims for a broad reach, including researchers across many disciplines as well as justice practitioners (e.g. judges, prosecutors, defenders, probation officers, treatment providers, mental health and medical personnel working with justice-involved individuals, etc.). The sections of the journal devoted to translational and implementation sciences are primarily geared to practitioners and justice actors with special attention to the techniques used.