Methods to Improve the Selection and Tailoring of Implementation Strategies

By Byron J. Powell, R. Beidas, C. Lewis, Gregory A. Aarons, J. Curtis McMillen, Enola K. Proctor, S. Khinduka, David S. Mandell. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 2017

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Implementing behavioral health interventions is a complicated process. It has been suggested that implementation strategies should be selected and tailored to address the contextual needs of a given change effort; however, there is limited guidance as to how to do this. This article proposes four methods (concept mapping, group model building, conjoint analysis, and intervention mapping) that could be used to match implementation strategies to identified barriers and facilitators for a particular evidence-based practice or process change being implemented in a given setting. Each method is reviewed, examples of their use are provided, and their strengths and weaknesses are discussed. The discussion includes suggestions for future research pertaining to implementation strategies and highlights these methods’ relevance to behavioral health services and research.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, General Health Professions

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Implementation Mapping: Using Intervention Mapping to Develop Implementation Strategies (2019, methodology): “Intervention Mapping for Planning Implementation Strategies, what we have called Implementation Mapping here, has already been employed by several authors (25, 26, 73–75) and recommended as an effective approach (17).”
Enhancing the Impact of Implementation Strategies in Healthcare: A Research Agenda (2019, methodology): “(55) proposed Intervention Mapping (58), concept mapping (59), conjoint analysis (60), and system dynamics modeling (61) as methods to aid the design, selection, and tailoring of strategies.”