Evaluation of organizational capacity in the implementation of a church-based cancer education program.

ABSTRACT: Implementation evaluations have increasingly taken into account how features of local context help determine implementation outcomes. The purpose of this study was to determine which contextual features of organizational capacity led directly to the RE-AIM Framework implementation outcomes of intervention reach and number of days taken to implement, in an implementation trial of a series of cancer education workshops conducted across 13 African American churches in Maryland. We used a configurational approach with Coincidence Analysis to identify specific features of organizational capacity that uniquely distinguished churches with implementation success from those that were less successful. Aspects of organizational capacity (e.g., congregation size, staffing/volunteers, health ministry e

SUBMITTER: Knott CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8983006 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature