Evaluating complex interventions and health technologies using normalization process theory: development of a simplified approach and web-enabled toolkit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Normalization Process Theory (NPT) can be used to explain implementation processes in health care relating to new technologies and complex interventions. This paper describes the processes by which we developed a simplified version of NPT for use by clinicians, managers, and policy makers, and which could be embedded in a web-enabled toolkit and on-line users manual.

Methods

Between 2006 and 2010 we undertook four tasks. (i) We presented NPT to potential and actual users in multiple workshops, seminars, and presentations. (ii) Using what we discovered from these meetings, we decided to create a simplified set of statements and explanations expressing core constructs of the theory (iii) We circulated these statements to a criterion sample of 60 researchers, clinici

SUBMITTER: May CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3205031 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature