1. Involve the target audience or "end consumers" and program providers in formative assessments and intervention design from the outset to enhance reach, adherence, adoption, implementation, and maintenance.
2. Design interventions so that they reach large numbers and representative portions of the intended target population.
3. Investigate recruitment methods and program features designed to enhance reach within populations of 1) participants and 2) settings.
4. Replicate intervention effects or include purposeful sampling across heterogeneous persons and settings to judge the robustness of the intervention.
5. Study the consistency of implementation and outcomes produced across a range of intervention modalities, settings, and delivery agents.
6. Validate interventions that are "straightforward" to implement and produce training materials so that a wide array of agents can successfully deliver the program.
7. Design interventions with theoretical constructs in mind and measure moderating and mediating variables at the individual and setting level to validate hypothesized change processes.

8. Include criteria for success in addition to effect size, including measures of quality of life and potential negative outcomes of interventions.
9. Include a maintenance phase in research studies to improve understanding of long-term behavior change at the individual level and sustainability and institutionalization at the setting level.

^ to top of page ^

Reporting Research Results

1. Describe results on reach, adoption, implementation, and maintenance – as well as effectiveness – in standardized ways to facilitate comparisons across studies.
2. Report the distribution of the targeted population(s), participation rates, and compare characteristics of participants and non-participants at both individual and setting level. If information on non-participants is not possible to collect, compare the sample to representative data from your area.
3. Specify recruitment methods and program features hypothesized to be key to enhancing or hampering program participation.
4. Carefully describe the context of the intervention in terms of persons, settings, and local history.
5. Report on characteristics of the intervention agents and the modalities of delivery so that these can be replicated and compared to other studies.
6. Document attrition from the study and describe characteristics of drop-outs.

7. Report the maintenance of individual behavior change of at least 6 months duration, and use procedures to evaluate the impact of attrition on results.

8. Record and report costs of all aspects of the intervention including recruitment, intervention materials, training, and delivery.

9. Report on continuance or modification of the program after conclusion of study.

10. Report relationships among various RE-AIM components (e.g. Reach and Efficacy) and compare "trade-offs" between internal and external validity in various interventions.