Evaluating a Virtual Community-of-Practice as Implementation Strategy for the Needs Assessment Framework in Intellectual Disability Care: A Quasi-Experimental Multi-Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Needs Assessment Framework (NAF) stimulates awareness of care staff to consider perspectives of clients with intellectual disabilities in decisions on involuntary care. We explored the effect of implementers' participation in a Virtual Community-of-Practice (VCoP) for designing implementation plans, on NAF implementation and staff awareness.

Method

A quasi-experimental design was used to compare implementation and awareness by care staff (n = 54) between organisations that implemented NAF with VCoP participation (N = 4) and organisations that implemented NAF as usual (N = 3). The ItFits toolkit work routine in the VCoP was qualitatively analysed to understand choices regarding implementation plans.

Results

No statistical differences in implementation an

SUBMITTER: Bisschops EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11742692 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature