Section outline

  • Lecture: Implementation strategies

    Understand how implementation strategies are best conceptualized, specified and reported; cover differences between implementation strategies and clinical interventions; illustrate shortcomings in the reporting of implementation strategies in current literature; illustrate unifying approach that cut across major families of implementation strategies.  Epi framing: Causal framework for multicomponent interventions, introduce causal pies for the relationship between context and multi-component interventions, and formalize adaptivity, discuss the idea of core and adaptable periphery

    Faculty: Elvin Geng

    Location:  Mission Hall 1406

    • Session Slides:

    • Session 4 slides File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading/Viewing:

    • Proctor, Enola, et al. "Outcomes for implementation research: conceptual distinctions, measurement challenges, and research agenda." Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research 38.2 (2011): 65-76. File
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    • Proctor, Enola K., Byron J. Powell, and J. Curtis McMillen. "Implementation strategies: recommendations for specifying and reporting." Implementation Science 8.1 (2013): 1-11. File
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    • Optional Reading:

    • Hoffmann, Tammy C., et al. "Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide." Bmj 348 (2014): g1687. File
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    • Pinnock, Hilary, et al. "Standards for Reporting Implementation Studies (StaRI) Statement." bmj 356 (2017): i6795. File
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    • Powell BJ et al. A refined compilation of implementation strategies: results from the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) project. Implementation Science. 2015 Dec;10(1):21. File
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    • Assignment:

    • Assignment 4 Epi 239 - Intervention Specification File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):