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RE-AIM has entered into a partnership with another RWJF supported project, “Active for Life,” the goal of which is to enhance regular physical activity among adults age 50 and older.

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What's New
(last updated: February 12, 2008)

NEW PUBLICATIONS ENCOURAGING MORE ATTENTION TO EXTERNAL VALIDITY

The January, 2008 issue of the American Journal of Public Health carried an editorial by associate editors, Drs. Allan Steckler and Kenneth R. McLeroy, calling attention to the need for better reporting on external validity issues in research reports.

The article titled, “The Importance of External Validity”, can be found in Volume 98, No. 1, pages 9-10 of the AJPH.

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A recent publication by Green and Glasgow addresses the application of RE-AIM dimensions to encouraging more attention by journals, their authors and their peer reviewers to issues of external validity.

Click HERE to view the article

APPLYING THE RE-AIM FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS THE PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACT ON POLICY CHANGE

A recent publication by Jilcott, Ammerman, Sommers and Glasgow in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine (2007,  Vol. 34, 105-114) summarizes how the RE-AIM framework can be applied to the design and evaluation of health policies. 

Click HERE to view the abstract for this article

NIH CONFERENCE: BUILDING THE SCIENCE OF DISSEMINATION AND IMPLEMENTATION IN THE SERVICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
http://obssr.od.nih.gov/di2007/index.html              

September 10-11, 2007 Bethesda, MD

Click here to register.

This trans-NIH conference is part the new strategic prospectus of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, which seeks to facilitate increased support for the 'science of implementation' as a key avenue for moving behavioral and social science forward. Specifically, the prospectus calls for research to understand the factors which are promoting or impeding the adoption, adaptation, implementation, and maintenance of evidence-based practices by health providers, insurers, policy makers, and the public. Goals of the conference:
1.                   To explicate the state of the theory, methods, and practice of dissemination and implementation research.
2.                   To highlight where increased conceptual, empirical, and methodological development is needed, thus identifying challenges for the field.
3.                   To foster dissemination and implementation science with the ultimate goal of improving public health through the availability, adoption, adaptation, and sustained maintenance of efficacious approaches that improve the quality of health and human services.
4.                   To recruit additional researchers and develop a diverse community of scientists, thus fostering the interdisciplinary collaborations necessary to pursue such complex and multidimensional dissemination and implementation research.

ACTIVE FOR LIFE PROGRAM LESSONS LEARNED

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded the Active for Life program which used the RE-AIM framework to help plan and evaluate the application of evidence-based physical activity programs for older adults in many different settings across the U.S. They used a participatory approach and among other findings, concluded that “RE-AIM provides the best blue print we have for defining and improving evidence-based community-participatory interventions that meet the needs both of the scientist or publich health officer and of the community.”

Find out more about their project and conclusions at www.activeforlife.info or read their latest report in Alzheimers and Dementia, 2007;3:S52-S57 by Marcia Ory, Nelda Mier, Joe Starkey, and Lynda Anderson titled, “Translating Science into Public Health Practice: Lessons from Physical Activity Programs”.

DR. GLASGOW DISCUSSES INTEGRATING EXTERNAL ANND INTERNAL VALIDITY IN RESEARCH

At a featured keynote debate at the recent Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual meeting in Washington D.C., Dr. Glasgow presented his vision for " What Types of Evidence Are Needed?". He argued that to advance our present state of knowledge we need evidence that is contextual, practical, and robust.  Such evidence and experimental designs should address questions important to clinicians and policy makers, and he provided examples of research that is both rigorous and relevant.

Please click here to view the SBM Powerpoint.

NEW CENTER ON IMPLEMENTATION AND DISSEMINATION RESEARCH

The Kaiser Colorado Clinical Research Unit has just launched a new center and resource for translation to practice and policy issues. The center, whose final title may change slightly, is the Kaiser Permanente Center for Implementation and Dissemination Research.  It will be led by Co-Directors Drs. James Dearing (see www.kpco-cru.org) and Dr. Russ Glasgow. While the center will hosted within Kaiser and will serve as a resource and learning laboratory for multiple Kaiser research centers, it will also have a strong external and community focus. 

The mission of the new Center is  to conduct research on the development, implementation and dissemination of applicable concepts and practical tools for the integration of health care research, practice, and policy".

Click HERE to see a Power Point presentation on the new Center. For more information, contact Barbara McCray@kp.org.