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Recommendations for Funders
Ways to Accelerate the Transfer of Research to
Practice
- Solicit proposals that investigate interventions in multiple settings
and document that these settings are representative of those to which
the program wishes to generalize.
- Fund novel and innovative investigations of ways to enhance reach,
adoption, implementation and maintenance of behavior change interventions.
- Require standard and comprehensive reporting of exclusions, participation
rates, and representativeness of both participants and settings.
- Fund sequential program changes and time-series studies, replications,
multiple baseline and cross-over designs, and other designs in addition
to RCTs that can efficiently and practically address key issues in
translation.
- Fund programs that investigate and can demonstrate high levels of implementation
and consistent outcomes across a wide range of intervention agents similar
to those in applied settings.
- Require a maintenance/sustainability phase in research projects and implementation
of plans to enhance institutionalization once the original research has been
completed. Alternatively, fund competing applications to test the long-term
effects and generalization of initially successful programs.
- Encourage innovation in intervention design and standardization in
reporting on process and outcome measures at both individual AND setting/intervention
agent levels.
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