Implementation Research in Mental Health Services: an Emerging Science with Conceptual, Methodological, and Training challenges

By Enola K. Proctor, J. Landsverk, Gregory A. Aarons, David A. Chambers, C. Glisson, Brian S. Mittman. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2008

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One of the most critical issues in mental health services research is the gap between what is known about effective treatment and what is provided to consumers in routine care. Concerted efforts are required to advance implementation science and produce skilled implementation researchers. This paper seeks to advance implementation science in mental health services by over viewing the emergence of implementation as an issue for research, by addressing key issues of language and conceptualization, by presenting a heuristic skeleton model for the study of implementation processes, and by identifying the implications for research and training in this emerging field.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions

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Mixed Method Designs in Implementation Research (2010, methodology): “As Landsverk et al. (this issue) and others (Proctor et al. 2009), have noted, most early research on implementation was observational in nature, relying upon naturalistic case study approaches.”
The Implementation Research Logic Model: a method for planning, executing, reporting, and synthesizing implementation projects (2020, background): “[20, 21], which is focused primarily on the selection of implementation strategy(s) rather than a complete depiction of the conceptual model linking all implementation research elements (i.”
A practical implementation science heuristic for organizational readiness: R = MC2 (2015, positive): “Determining the relationship of the readiness components to outcomes (Proctor et al., 2009) would provide information about the components that are the most influential and consequently allow for more specialized Support System focus.”
Acceptability of healthcare interventions: an overview of reviews and development of a theoretical framework (2017, neutral): “overall effectiveness of the intervention [8, 9].”
Transdiagnostic Approaches to Mental Health Problems: Current Status and Future Directions (2020, background): “We know that training and dissemination for even more straightforward healthcare approaches to mental health difficulties can prove very challenging (Proctor et al., 2009).”
Methods to Improve the Selection and Tailoring of Implementation Strategies (2017, neutral): “The latter weakness is not surprising given that implementation science is a relatively new field that is gradually moving toward more precise applications of implementation strategies.(4,86) Each method holds promise for increasing the rigor of implementation research; however, which method should ”
Implementation strategies: recommendations for specifying and reporting (2013, neutral): “‘top down/bottom up,’ ‘push/pull,’ and ‘carrot/stick’ tactics, and typically involve ‘package’ approaches [16].”
Outcomes for Implementation Research: Conceptual Distinctions, Measurement Challenges, and Research Agenda (2010, methodology): “Level of Analysis for Outcomes Implementation of new treatments is an inherently multilevel enterprise, involving provider behavior, care organization, and policy (Proctor et al. 2009; Raghavan et al. 2008).”
Measuring factors affecting implementation of health innovations: a systematic review of structural, organizational, provider, patient, and innovation level measures (2013, background): “More recently, however, many frameworks have converged to outline a set of multi-level factors that are hypothesized to impact implementation outcomes [9,16-18].”
A Compilation of Strategies for Implementing Clinical Innovations in Health and Mental Health (2011, background): “Implementation research has emerged as a promising way of bridging this “quality chasm” (Institute of Medicine, 2001) by advancing knowledge about how to adopt and integrate evidence-based health interventions (Fixsen, Naoom, Blase, Friedman, & Wallace, 2005; Greenhalgh, Robert, Macfarlane, Bate, & ”
Purposeful Sampling for Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis in Mixed Method Implementation Research (2015, neutral): “method designs in implementation research (Proctor et al. 2009; Landsverk et al. 2012; Palinkas et al. 2011a; Aarons et al. 2011).”
Reenvisioning Clinical Science: Unifying the Discipline to Improve the Public Health (2014, neutral): “Finally, consider the implementation scientists (e.g., Proctor et al., 2009).”