Study Group - Implementation Flashcards
What is involved in implementation of health programs?
- Coordinating logistics to train volunteers & staff
- Monitoring progress
- Delivering program
- Evaluating effectiveness & sustainability of program
What should HES do first when preparing to implement health program? Why?
Project or Work Plan b/c a well developed work plan ensures fidelity of implementation
What is a project or work plan?
- Detailed road map for how program goals will be achieved
- Should be aligned with logic model or strategic plan for program
- Used to identify needed services so HES can acquire them
What needs to be included in a strong work plan?
- Goals
- Objectives
- Activities
- Timelines
- Evaluation measures
- Roles & responsibilities involved in implementing specific aspects of plan
- Intervention mapping
Steps of intervention mapping
- Assessment of problem
- Prioritizing determinants of IM
- Program Design
- Program construction
- Program implementation
- Program evaluation
What is a part of IM ‘assessment of problem’?
- Logic model
- Ecological model domains
What is included in IM ‘prioritizing determinants of IM’?
Ranking priorities based on changeability & level of impact
What is included in IM ‘program design’?
- Use theory to assist in method selection & strategies
- Ensure theories compliment one another & are accurately interpreted/applied
What is included in IM ‘program construction’? How can HES ensure to have high fidelity?
- Program development
- Detailed methods & strategies = high fidelity
What is part of IM ‘program implementation’?
Training of staff
What needs to be considered and used in IM ‘program evaluation’?
- Use logic model as guide
- Test for rigor
What are the types of resources needed for implementation of work plan?
- Personnel
- Curriculum & Instructional
- Space
- Equipment
- Financial
What is an MOU/MOA?
Document that captures and outlines agreement and principles of that agreement between 2 parties
MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
MOA
Memorandum of Agreement
What obligations/requirements must HES follow when implementing health programs?
- Guidelines & legal standards for their organization & organization providing funding
- State & local laws, rules, regulations
- Funding announcements or solicitations
- Award notices
- Guidance documents
- Any restrictions of how funds can be used
Paperwork Reduction Act (1995)
Helps reduce paperwork burden & maximize information collection
Rehabilitation Act (section 508)
Federal agencies must make websites, electronic material, & other information technology accessible to people with disabilities
Plain Writing Act (2010)
Federal agencies must use “clear communication that public can understand & use”
What is fidelity?
Degree of correspondence between program as intended & program is actually implemented in designated order
What should not happen when adapting programs?
Substantial modification or elimination of core program elements
What should training staff & volunteers consist of/include?
- Program objectives
- Intended outcomes
- Logic model
- Core elements (program content & steps)
- Instruction of their role
- Offer guidance & opportunities to practice their roles
What should be used when training program staff & volunteers?
Training manual (AKA Program procedural manual)
What is a training manual used for?
Used to communicate step-by-step plans for program
What is included in a training manual/program procedural manual?
Provides background info, ideas for facilitation, & parameters of program (supports program fidelity & implementation)
What needs to be considered when providing training?
- Best way to provide instruction based on intended audience
- Funds & expertise levels of those providing training
- Cost, content, & required instructional expertise
- methods to use during training
What are some methods that can be used when providing training?
- On the job training
- One-on-one training
- In person group work
- Distance learning techniques
What does an action plan for program implementation identify/help HES with?
- Used to describe how goals & objectives will be achieved
- Identifies needed resources
- How responsibilities will be assigned
Who should be involved in developing action plan for program implementation?
Members of intended audience (both those who can hinder & help implementation of program)
How does intervention mapping focus on dissemination?
Developing implementation plan to achieve supporting adoption, implementation, & maintenance of programs
What are the GENERAL phases of program implementation?
- Adopt program
- Identify & prioritize tasks to complete
- Establish management system
- Put plans into action
- End or sustain program/intervention
What are the components of EFFECTIVE public health programs?
- Use innovation to develop evidence base
- Use limited number of high priority, evidence-based interventions
- Use effective program management
- Use partnerships & coalitions
- Communicate accurate & timely information
- Obtain resources & support
Program implementation challenges
- Lack of funding to implement program as designed (fidelity)
- Common settings have primary missions other than prevention
- Implementing new programs requires training staff & administration in effective delivery
- Kinds of data systems needed to target & monitor prevention programs does not currently exist
- Participation in & completion of prevention programs is usually voluntary
- Some organizations have more capacity to handle implementation than others
What needs to be done PRIOR to implementation of health program?
- Gain program/intervention buy-in from priority population
- Identify individuals/organizations responsible for intervention delivery
- Use implementation plan or project management plan to develop detailed list and relationships of all program activities, components, & tasks
- Pilot testing & phase in
- Mass communication to share info & support program objectives & implementation
- Consider how to end or sustain program
How can HES create environment conducive to learning?
- Get management or stakeholder support
- Identify resources to support implementation
- Obtain buy-in from implementation staff
- Meet learner’s needs
- Target audience
- Healthy & positive physical environment (trust & respect, physical aspects in classroom)
How does HES determine baseline data?
Review available quantitative & qualitative data from secondary data (national, state, & local resources)
Why is determining baseline data important?
- Provides beginning measure for evaluating changes in behavior, practices, & skills associated with program goals
- Helps in assessment of knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, values of intended audience
- Helps in assessing capabilities & skills related to outcomes
How is marking plan used by HES?
Identifies audience(s), message(s), & intended communication methods
What should health program marking plan be aligned with?
Program goals & objectives
Targeted messages
Segmenting/dividing audience into smaller SUBGROUPS with similar characteristics
Tailored Messages
- Specific SUBPOPULATION focusing on their needs & personal (primary) data
- culturally appropriate, relevant, & applicable
How can HES reach larger audience via tailored messages?
Computer tailoring
What are the 4 principles of Marketing? What are they in program planning/implementation?
- Product - target of intervention
- Place - location of program
- Price - monetary & other costs associated with program
- Promotion - sum of all avenues used to communicate messages about the program
Potential program implementation issues
- Staffing & training
- Intervention content
- Program delivery
- Intervention participants
What does “Behavior is multifaceted” mean?
Multiple strategies are often needed to change behavior
How can HES develop health programs that will be potentially successful in motivating priority population to change their behavior?
Consider strategies at various levels of ecological model
RE-AIM
Reach Effectiveness Adoption Implementation Maintenance
What is RE-AIM used for?
Help with intervention delivery
IM ADAPT meaning? How is it helpful for HES?
Intervention Mapping to Adapt
- helpful in adapting evidence-based interventions
What are IM ADAPT steps?
- Needs Assessment
- Set objectives
- Select methods
- Design program
- Plan implementation
- Create evaluation plan