TY - JOUR
T1 - Six-Year Sustainability of Evidence-Based Intervention Implementation Quality by Community-University Partnerships
T2 - The PROSPER Study
AU - Spoth, Richard
AU - Guyll, Max
AU - Redmond, Cleve
AU - Greenberg, Mark
AU - Feinberg, Mark
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments Work on this paper was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA013709) and co-funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - There is a knowledge gap concerning how well community-based teams fare in implementing evidence-based interventions (EBIs) over many years, a gap that is important to fill because sustained high quality EBI implementation is essential to public health impact. The current study addresses this gap by evaluating data from PROSPER, a community-university intervention partnership model, in the context of a randomized-control trial of 28 communities. Specifically, it examines community teams' sustainability of implementation quality on a range of measures, for both family-focused and schoolbased EBIs. Average adherence ratings approached 90% for family-focused and school-based EBIs, across as many as 6 implementation cohorts. Additional indicators of implementation quality similarly showed consistently positive results. Correlations of the implementation quality outcomes with a number of characteristics of community teams and intervention leaders were calculated to explore their potential relevance to sustained implementation quality. Though several relationships attained statistical significance at particular points in time, none were stable across cohorts. The role of PROSPER's continuous, proactive technical assistance in producing the positive results is discussed.
AB - There is a knowledge gap concerning how well community-based teams fare in implementing evidence-based interventions (EBIs) over many years, a gap that is important to fill because sustained high quality EBI implementation is essential to public health impact. The current study addresses this gap by evaluating data from PROSPER, a community-university intervention partnership model, in the context of a randomized-control trial of 28 communities. Specifically, it examines community teams' sustainability of implementation quality on a range of measures, for both family-focused and schoolbased EBIs. Average adherence ratings approached 90% for family-focused and school-based EBIs, across as many as 6 implementation cohorts. Additional indicators of implementation quality similarly showed consistently positive results. Correlations of the implementation quality outcomes with a number of characteristics of community teams and intervention leaders were calculated to explore their potential relevance to sustained implementation quality. Though several relationships attained statistical significance at particular points in time, none were stable across cohorts. The role of PROSPER's continuous, proactive technical assistance in producing the positive results is discussed.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10464-011-9430-5
DO - 10.1007/s10464-011-9430-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 21394561
AN - SCOPUS:80855131661
SN - 0091-0562
VL - 48
SP - 412
EP - 425
JO - American Journal of Community Psychology
JF - American Journal of Community Psychology
IS - 3-4
ER -