TY - JOUR
T1 - Beginning with the application in mind
T2 - Designing and planning health behavior change interventions to enhance dissemination
AU - Klesges, Lisa M.
AU - Estabrooks, Paul A.
AU - Dzewaltowski, David A.
AU - Bull, Sheana S.
AU - Glasgow, Russell E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and National Institutes of Health (NICHD Grant R01 HD37367, NHLBI Grant R01 HL62156, and NCI Grant R01 CA80725).
Funding Information:
Based on our experience with the BCC, the RE-AIM workgroup applied for and received funding from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop Web-based and additional materials to support future researchers in adopting the RE-AIM frame-work. Resources for community leaders and program planners were also developed to improve their ability to plan and evaluate programs that are likely to be successfully adopted, implemented, and sustained in real-world settings. To disseminate this information and to provide a network of support for enhancing the translation of research to practice, a Web site (http:// www.re-aim.org) was created (for details, see 74). Of particular relevance to this article, concrete tools are available to conduct a self-test to evaluate and consider RE-AIM elements in study planning (http://www.re-aim.org/2003/commleader.html#), locate datasets to estimate the size and characteristics of targeted population and settings, and assist with calculations of elements of reach and adoption.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Dissemination of behavior change interventions can be enhanced by considering key elements related to public health impact in the study design and planning phases of research projects. In this article we describe a framework of reach, efficacy/effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance known as RE-AIM and how it can be used to plan and design studies with features that can strengthen the potential translation of interventions. In describing how RE-AIM concepts were introduced to and adopted by 15 behavior change intervention studies as part of the Behavioral Change Consortium (BCC), we provide an example of practical application of the framework. Recommendations for applying the framework to study planning are based on literature reviews conducted by the RE-AIM workgroup and on discussions with investigators who participated in BCC. Utilizing RE-AIM as a planning framework may have increased attention to issues of external validity among BCC studies and enhanced the potential translation and dissemination of intervention findings into practice.
AB - Dissemination of behavior change interventions can be enhanced by considering key elements related to public health impact in the study design and planning phases of research projects. In this article we describe a framework of reach, efficacy/effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance known as RE-AIM and how it can be used to plan and design studies with features that can strengthen the potential translation of interventions. In describing how RE-AIM concepts were introduced to and adopted by 15 behavior change intervention studies as part of the Behavioral Change Consortium (BCC), we provide an example of practical application of the framework. Recommendations for applying the framework to study planning are based on literature reviews conducted by the RE-AIM workgroup and on discussions with investigators who participated in BCC. Utilizing RE-AIM as a planning framework may have increased attention to issues of external validity among BCC studies and enhanced the potential translation and dissemination of intervention findings into practice.
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U2 - 10.1207/s15324796abm2902s_10
DO - 10.1207/s15324796abm2902s_10
M3 - Review article
C2 - 15921491
AN - SCOPUS:17844400085
SN - 0883-6612
VL - 29
SP - 66
EP - 75
JO - Annals of Behavioral Medicine
JF - Annals of Behavioral Medicine
IS - SUPPL.
ER -