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{"title":"Usability of a cross-system housing stability program for juvenile courts: A multimethod study of probation counselor perspectives.","authors":"Asia S Bishop, Sarah C Walker, Ella B Baumgarten, Kristin Vick, Taquesha Dean","doi":"10.1177/26334895251319814","DOIUrl":"10.1177/26334895251319814","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Youth in contact with the juvenile legal system experience disproportionate rates of homelessness. While system contact is a critical intervening point, juvenile courts do not typically offer housing services. One solution is to refer youth to evidence-based, community-based services to meet housing-related needs, but a myriad of individual and organizational factors often impede court staff from making such referrals. Housing Stability for Youth in Courts (HSYNC) is a novel, cross-system service linkage model for court-involved youth facing housing instability. HSYNC was developed using codesign as a strategy to improve usability and incorporated evidence on juvenile court linkage strategies effective at increasing service referrals and improving outcomes.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The current study utilized a multimethod approach to evaluate the usability of HSYNC from the perspective of juvenile probation counselors (JPCs) as one group of end-users. As part of the pilot implementation study, survey (<i>N</i> = 15) and semi-structured interview (<i>N </i>= 20) data were obtained from JPCs from four juvenile courts in one northwestern state.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Survey results indicated good usability for HSYNC (mean implementation strategy usability scale score of 80). Themes from the interviews complemented survey findings, pointing to HSYNC as a value-added program that integrated well with existing probation practices. The housing navigator's approach was highlighted as a strong facilitator of program usability. Themes also provided greater insight into implementation barriers (i.e., individual and contextual factors) and areas for improvement (e.g., eligibility screening process).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Drivers of program usability and implications for program improvement to address identified implementation challenges to ensure the HSYNC model is effective and sustainable long-term are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":73354,"journal":{"name":"Implementation research and practice","volume":"6 ","pages":"26334895251319814"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11843703/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143484717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainment and adaptation of systems navigation and psychosocial counseling across HIV testing clinics in Vietnam: A qualitative assessment.","authors":"Sophia M Bartels, Minh X Nguyen, Trang T Nguyen, Adams L Sibley, Hong Linh T Dang, Ha T T Nong, Ngan T K Nguyen, Ha V Tran, Teerada Sripaipan, Byron J Powell, Clare Barrington, Luz M Reyes, Carl A Latkin, Le Minh Giang, Huong T T Phan, William C Miller, Vivian F Go","doi":"10.1177/26334895251319812","DOIUrl":"10.1177/26334895251319812","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Few evidence-based interventions have been successfully scaled up and sustained long-term. Within an implementation trial testing strategies for scale-up of the Systems Navigation and Psychosocial Counseling (SNaP) intervention for people who inject drugs (PWID) with HIV across HIV testing clinics in Vietnam, we sought to assess if the implementation of SNaP was sustained after study support ended and to identify factors, including adaptations, that affected SNaP sustainment.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Across all 42 SNaP clinics, we surveyed clinic staff at 6-10 months post-study completion to assess SNaP sustainment. We purposively selected six high and six low-sustaining clinics and conducted 31 in-depth interviews with clinic staff (<i>n</i> = 23) and clinic directors (<i>n</i> = 8). Interviews were coded and analyzed using thematic analysis informed by the Integrated Sustainability Framework. Matrices were used to compare themes across high and low-sustaining clinics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>1/12 clinics sustained all of SNaP's core components, 2/12 would continue to sustain SNaP if they had new PWID patients, and the remainder did not fully sustain SNaP but continued conducting a modified version, including shorter or fewer SNaP sessions, tailoring SNaP to participants' specific needs, and conducting SNaP-style counseling for all clients. Facilitators of sustainment included leadership directives to clinic staff around SNaP sustainment, clinicians' belief in SNaP's effectiveness, and SNaP's perceived fit with clinic activities and mission. Major barriers to SNaP sustainment included lack of funding for PWID outreach activities, time, staff, training continuity, and systemic challenges with getting PWID into care, such as poverty and lack of transportation.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We identified the challenge of sustaining the SNaP intervention long-term, the ubiquity of intervention adaptations, and multi-level barriers and facilitators to intervention sustainment. These findings demonstrate the need for sustainment strategies and could inform trials of strategies to improve the longevity of effective HIV interventions for populations that are disproportionately affected by this epidemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":73354,"journal":{"name":"Implementation research and practice","volume":"6 ","pages":"26334895251319812"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11837132/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Barriers to dental providers' use of a clinical decision support tool for pain management following tooth extractions.","authors":"Shannon Gwin Mitchell, Jan Gryczynski, Donald C Worley, Stephen E Asche, Anjali R Truitt, D Brad Rindal","doi":"10.1177/26334895251319810","DOIUrl":"10.1177/26334895251319810","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>De-implementing non-effective or even harmful practices in healthcare is sometimes necessary, as has been the case with opioid prescribing in dentistry over the past decade. One approach to practice transformation is to deploy clinical decision support (CDS) tools. This qualitative study examined barriers to CDS use as part of a cluster randomized trial that aimed to decrease opioid prescribing for pain management following tooth extractions across a large dental practice.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Twenty dental providers who took part in the larger randomized trial were purposively selected to complete a semi-structured qualitative interview. Participants represented a broad range in terms of years of practice, dental specialization, and CDS use patterns. Interviews were conducted via Zoom, audio recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using a content analysis approach in ATLAS.ti following participation in the cluster randomized trial.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Reasons for not using the CDS fell generally into two broad categories: unintentional (i.e., forgetting to use the CDS) and intentional. Providers who forgot to use the CDS after training and implementation either were not sure where to look for the alert on the screen or did not remember to look for it because its use was never incorporated into their workflow. Reasons for deciding not to use the CDS included feeling that it slowed down their workflow, thinking that the information it provided would not be useful, and not trusting the functionality of the system.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>There were numerous, interdependent human, organizational, and technological factors that influenced the intentionally and unintentionally low CDS use rates observed in the study. Findings highlight issues to be aware of and address in future implementation efforts that utilize CDS.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>Clinicaltrials.gov NCT03584789.</p>","PeriodicalId":73354,"journal":{"name":"Implementation research and practice","volume":"6 ","pages":"26334895251319810"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11808763/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143392426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Not getting better but not getting worse: A cluster randomized controlled pilot trial of a leadership implementation strategy.","authors":"Jill Locke, Catherine M Corbin, Roger Goosey, Vaughan K Collins, Mark G Ehrhart, Kurt Hatch, Christine Espeland, Aaron R Lyon","doi":"10.1177/26334895241312405","DOIUrl":"10.1177/26334895241312405","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in schools is fraught with challenges. Even when EBPs are initiated, deterioration of implementation efforts often hinders their long-term success. School leadership behaviors can influence teachers' EBP implementation. Our study tested an implementation strategy called Helping Educational Leaders Mobilize Evidence (HELM), adapted from the Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation strategy, to enhance EBP implementation through improvements in school leadership teams' implementation leadership and climate to buffer against the deterioration of implementation efforts. This study explores the impact of HELM on theorized mechanisms of change (i.e., implementation leadership, climate), educator-level factors (i.e., implementation citizenship), and implementation outcomes (i.e., fidelity, initiative stability).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>One school district and 10 schools in Washington participated. Five of the schools were randomized to receive the HELM strategy and the remaining five schools received an alternative leadership training as an implementation attention control. Teachers at every school (<i>n</i> = 341) received training for an EBP called Positive Greetings at the Door that has been previously demonstrated to reduce student behavior problems. Principals and Assistant Principals (<i>n</i> = 18) received the HELM strategy or alternative leadership training. Three district Administrators also participated in HELM as part of the Organizational Strategy Development meetings.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>HELM significantly slowed the average decline of implementation leadership (perseverant leadership and communication), three dimensions of implementation climate (recognition, rewards, and existing supports) and total implementation climate, and one dimension of implementation citizenship (keeping informed). No significant effects were found with regard to implementation outcomes (i.e., fidelity, initiative stability).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>HELM shows promise in buffering the deterioration of EBP implementation efforts in schools. HELM positively influenced implementation leadership and climate, which are the hypothesized mechanisms for promoting successful long-term implementation efforts. An appropriately powered trial is needed to determine the efficacy of HELM in the future.Name of the registry: clinicaltrials.govTrial registration number: NCT06340074Date of registration: March 29, 2024. Retrospectively registeredURL of trial registry record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06340074?intr=helm&rank=.</p>","PeriodicalId":73354,"journal":{"name":"Implementation research and practice","volume":"6 ","pages":"26334895241312405"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11775992/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143069960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effect of caregiver opinion leaders to increase demand for evidence-based practices for youth anxiety: A cluster randomized controlled trial.","authors":"Margaret E Crane, Marc S Atkins, Sara J Becker, Jonathan Purtle, Gillian C Dysart, Sydney Keller, Olivia Brauer, Sirina E Tiwari, Thomas M Olino, Lara Baez, John Lestino, Philip C Kendall","doi":"10.1177/26334895241312406","DOIUrl":"10.1177/26334895241312406","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Dissemination initiatives have the potential to increase consumer knowledge of and engagement with evidence-based treatments (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy [CBT]). Opinion leaders (OLs) have been used in public health campaigns, but have not been examined for the dissemination of mental health treatments. This study uses the Theory of Planned Behavior to test the dissemination strategy of involving an OL in an educational presentation to increase caregiver demand for CBT for youth anxiety.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants (<i>N </i>= 262; 92% female; 69% White, 82% non-Hispanic) were caregivers who registered for a virtual presentation on youth anxiety treatment through their child's school. Schools within 1.5-hr drive of Philadelphia, PA were cluster-randomized (<i>k </i>= 25; two-arm prospective randomization) to the OL condition (presented by a clinical researcher and local caregiver OL; <i>n </i>= 119 participants) or the researcher-only condition (<i>n </i>= 143 participants). Presentations occurred from May 2021 to May 2022. Measures were completed pre- and post-presentation and at 3-month follow-up.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Relative to the researcher co-presenter, participants rated the OL as significantly more relatable, familiar, similar, and understanding of their community, but less credible than the researcher co-presenter. In both conditions, there was a significant pre-post increase in participants' knowledge of, attitudes about, subjective norms related to, and intention of seeking CBT for youth anxiety, but not stigma. Presentation conditions did not differ in change on these measures, or on rates of seeking youth anxiety CBT at follow-up.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Although involvement of a caregiver OL did not increase caregiver demand for evidence-based treatment for youth anxiety, the outreach presentation was associated with increases in knowledge of, attitudes about, subjective norms related to, and intention to seek CBT for youth anxiety. Involving OLs in researcher-delivered dissemination efforts may not be necessary for all consumer audiences, but may be beneficial for engendering a sense of relatability, similarity, and connection with disseminators.</p>","PeriodicalId":73354,"journal":{"name":"Implementation research and practice","volume":"6 ","pages":"26334895241312406"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11770744/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143054225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dissemination through trusted credible messengers: 133 weeks of the Flint Community Webinar on COVID-19.","authors":"Heatherlun Uphold, E Yvonne Lewis, Amy Drahota, Blair Warren, Jennifer Edwards-Johnson, Mary Katherine Crawford, Richard Sadler, Susan J Woolford, Roni Ellington, Marc Zimmerman, Alison Grodzinski, C Debra Furr-Holden","doi":"10.1177/26334895241312404","DOIUrl":"10.1177/26334895241312404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Community access to evidence-based information is critical, especially during a pandemic, as it can impact knowledge and adoption of health behaviors that affect health disparities. The field of dissemination and implementation (D&I) science is ideally positioned to address this need through its focus on reducing the research-to-practice gap through improved distribution of information. The purpose of this paper is to describe the creation of a weekly webinar series about COVID-19 directed toward community members, and the extent to which webinars were found useful and increased awareness of evidence-based information and services. Lessons learned about this dissemination strategy as well as the selection and involvement of trusted credible messengers (TCMs) to share information are discussed.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Data were derived from Zoom attendance reports, YouTube views, and survey responses collected about the weekly webinar series over 133 weeks from March 20, 2020 through September 30, 2022.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The webinar reached a minimum of 877 unique within-webinar participants, representing more than 9,190 in-webinar participant hours and an additional 17,303 YouTube views. A consistent base of weekly attendees (e.g., service providers, community members) reported increasing levels of satisfaction and utility over time.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study supports the use of a community webinar series to disseminate evidence-based, locally relevant information through TCMs to improve community access to knowledge of health information and resource utility.</p>","PeriodicalId":73354,"journal":{"name":"Implementation research and practice","volume":"6 ","pages":"26334895241312404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11719449/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142973654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Changing or validating physician opioid prescribing behaviors through audit and feedback and academic detailing interventions in primary care.","authors":"Celia Laur, Natasha Kithulegoda, Nicola McCleary, Emily Nicholas Angl, Michael Strange, Barbara Sklar, Thivja Sribaskaran, Gail Dobell, Sharon Gushue, Jonathan M C Lam, Lindsay Bevan, Victoria Burton, Lena Salach, Justin Presseau, Laura Desveaux, Noah Ivers","doi":"10.1177/26334895241307638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26334895241307638","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In Ontario, Canada, province-wide initiatives supporting safer opioid prescribing in primary care include voluntary audit and feedback reports and academic detailing. In this process evaluation, we aimed to determine the fidelity of delivery and receipt of the interventions, the observed change strategies used by physicians, potential mechanisms of action, and how complementary the initiatives can be to each other.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Semi-structured interviews were conducted with academic detailers and with physicians who received both interventions. Academic detailer interviews were coded using the Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy; physician interviews were coded to the Theoretical Domain Framework. Change strategies were summarized based on academic detailer intentions and physician-reported practice changes. Potential mechanisms of action were identified using the Theories and Techniques Tool and the literature. Patient partners informed the interpretation of results through ongoing group discussions of preliminary findings.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Interviews were conducted with eight academic detailers and 12 physicians. Change strategies described by academic detailers to support physicians' opioid prescribing included <i>problem solving</i>, <i>instructions on how to perform the behavior</i>, <i>adding objects to the environment</i>, <i>credible source</i>, <i>shaping knowledge</i>, and <i>social support.</i> Physicians mentioned that academic detailing validated current opioid practices or increased their <i>belief about capabilities</i> and their <i>intentions</i>, mediated by increased <i>skills</i> and the impact of <i>environmental context and resources</i>. Potential mechanisms of action included <i>behavioral regulation</i>, <i>behavioral cueing</i>, and <i>general attitudes/beliefs.</i> On its own, receiving the audit and feedback report did not lead to changes in beliefs about prescribing practices; however, for some physicians, it provided validation and reassurance. Physicians saw unrealized potential for complementarity.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>New interventions are often implemented in a complex ecosystem with other competing interventions. In this study, we show how examining the fidelity of the intervention from initial design through to delivery can identify opportunities for potential optimization.</p>","PeriodicalId":73354,"journal":{"name":"Implementation research and practice","volume":"6 ","pages":"26334895241307638"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11705341/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142959840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Formative evaluation of the implementation of digital therapeutics for opioids and other substance use disorders in primary care (DIGITS trial).","authors":"Lorella Palazzo, Caitlin N Dorsey, Jess Mogk, Tara Beatty, Deborah King, Kelsey Stefanik-Guizlo, Dustin Key, Tessa E Matson, Mary Shea, Ryan M Caldeiro, Angela Garza McWethy, Edwin S Wong, Abisola E Idu, Joseph E Glass","doi":"10.1177/26334895241301670","DOIUrl":"10.1177/26334895241301670","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Substance use disorders (SUDs) result in individual and societal burden. However, most individuals with SUD receive no treatment. Implementing SUD interventions in primary care could address this population's treatment needs. In the USA, reSET^® and reSET-O^® were the first prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) for SUDs and opioid use disorder (OUD), respectively. The Digital Treatments for Substance Use Disorder (DIGITS) study tested the effectiveness of practice facilitation and health coaching strategies to support reSET and reSET-O implementation into primary care. A formative evaluation was conducted to monitor implementation, inform adaptations, and learn what promotes PDT sustainment.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The Dynamic Sustainability Framework and the Framework for Reporting Adaptations and Modifications to Evidence-based Implementation Strategies guided the evaluation. Using rapid qualitative methods, we collected and analyzed observational fieldnotes, key informant interviews, and document sources (e.g., meeting minutes) for synthesis and dissemination to clinical partners and the study team via formative reports. We analyzed the reports to generate evaluation results.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-four primary care clinics participated. Evaluation data included 98 observational fieldnotes, 16 interviews, and 253 document sources. We produced nine formative reports. The study encountered barriers and facilitators in each DSF domain (ecological system, practice setting, and intervention). In the ecological system, the PDT vendor enabled the study, but the COVID-19 pandemic, laws, regulations, and contracting delayed implementation. In the practice setting, staff shortages and low clinic capacity were implementation challenges, while electronic health record capabilities were both barriers and facilitators. At the intervention level, non-routine workflows, clinician burden, and low patient engagement were barriers despite clinicians' efforts.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Digital therapeutics are promising SUD and OUD treatments, but integration into primary care requires conducive laws and regulations, organizational capacity, and patient and clinician engagement. Formative evaluation identified important lessons for future PDT implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":73354,"journal":{"name":"Implementation research and practice","volume":"5 ","pages":"26334895241301670"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11639013/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142831015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A conceptual framework for assessing implementation strategy integrity.","authors":"Todd Molfenter, Lori Ducharme, Lynda Stein, Steven Belenko, Shannon Gwin Mitchell, Dennis P Watson, Matthew C Aalsma, Peter D Friedmann, Jennifer E Becan, Bryan R Garner, Jessica Vechinski, Alida Bouris, Emily Claypool, Kate Elkington","doi":"10.1177/26334895241297278","DOIUrl":"10.1177/26334895241297278","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The outcomes of planned implementation efforts have been mixed, with some applications failing to achieve the desired change or impact. While reasons for mixed findings in implementation research are multifaceted (e.g., Damschroder et al., 2009, 2022), how the implementation strategy (IS) was deployed (i.e., integrity) and its impact on the implementation outcomes of evidence-based innovations (EBIs) is under-studied and warrants further clarification.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This article builds on the IS fidelity and mechanisms of change literature to create the Implementation Strategy Integrity Framework (ISIF). The ISIF was developed by a set of implementation science researchers in the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network seeking to document the role of implementation strategies in influencing EBI outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The authors identified four areas of documentation and measurement to examine the role of IS integrity on EBI outcomes. (a) Implementation Strategy Rigor (i.e., adherence, dose, and quality) requires those implementing the strategy/strategies to specify them, document adherence to the planned strategies, quality of execution, and any adaptations made. (b) Target User Responsiveness documents the extent and quality of targeted users' participation in IS activities and how well the target users perform their roles in conducting actions intended by the implementation strategies. (c) Target Mechanism Activation notes to what degree the implementation strategies achieved the intended impact(s) on targeted factors that facilitate EBI use. Finally, (d) these three areas are combined with selected Inner and Outer Context variables to explain IS integrity's potential moderating and mediating effects on EBI outcomes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A framework that can define the integrity of an IS and allow for its subsequent use as an explanatory variable in EBI outcomes is necessary for better elucidating mechanisms of action. The ISIF offers a structured approach to operationalize, measure, and evaluate the application and related impacts of implementation strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":73354,"journal":{"name":"Implementation research and practice","volume":"5 ","pages":"26334895241297278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11622300/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142803740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scaling up mental health service provision through multisectoral integration: A qualitative analysis of factors shaping delivery and uptake among South Sudanese refugees and healthcare workers in Uganda.","authors":"Jacqueline N Ndlovu, Soukaina Ouizzane, Marx R Leku, Kenneth K Okware, Hafsa Sentongo, Bathsheba Nyangwen, Nawaraj Upadhaya, Morten Skovdal, Jura L Augustinavicius, Wietse A Tol","doi":"10.1177/26334895241288574","DOIUrl":"10.1177/26334895241288574","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>There is a growing need for mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions that can feasibly be provided to larger groups of people, particularly in humanitarian settings. However, scaling up mental health interventions is notoriously difficult. There are therefore growing calls for integrating mental health outside traditional health structures, both to increase reach and to address social determinants of mental health. The objective of this study is to explore barriers and facilitators of Self-Help Plus (SH+), an MHPSS innovation implemented through multisectoral integration. We explore delivery and uptake at the scale of SH+ and aim to understand intervention adaptation needs when integrating SH+ within other health and non-health sectors in Uganda.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We conducted a qualitative study using in-depth interviews in two phases: first for a needs and resource assessment, and second for a process evaluation. We conducted 50 in-depth interviews with BRAC Uganda and MoH partner staff, intervention facilitators, and target impact group members between July and December 2022. A thematic network analysis process was used to identify barriers and facilitators of SH+ delivery and uptake at scale in Uganda.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified five major factors that should be considered when scaling through multisectoral integration, namely: (1) adaptivity, (2) funding mechanisms, (3) social capital, (4) participation, and (5) sustainability. Within these factors, there were varying degrees to which a factor was a facilitator or barrier, depending on participants' perceptions of the intervention.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings suggest that multisectoral integration of SH+ into sectors both inside and outside of health may be a viable means to scale SH+ and increase reach. However, funding, partnerships, co-creation, and adaptability need to be further explored to facilitate better and more sustainable integration.</p>","PeriodicalId":73354,"journal":{"name":"Implementation research and practice","volume":"5 ","pages":"26334895241288574"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11622322/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142803742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}