Adjunctive interventions: change methods directed at recipients that support uptake and use of health innovations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Implementation science groups change methods into two categories: (1) clinical, behavioral, or biomedical intervention targeting recipient's health outcomes and (2) implementation strategies targeting the delivery system. Differentiating interventions from strategies based on their intended functions is critical to accurately attributing their effects to health or implementation outcomes. However, in coordinating 200+ HIV implementation research projects and conducting systematic reviews, we identified change methods that had characteristics of both interventions and strategies that were inconsistently categorized. To alleviate confusion and improve change method specification, we propose that implementation science should adopt an extant but rarely used term-adjunctive

SUBMITTER: Smith JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10854146 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature