Communication strategies to facilitate the implementation of new clinical practices: a qualitative study of community mental health therapists.

ABSTRACT: Although communication is widely observed to be central to the implementation process, the field of implementation science has largely overlooked the details of how communication may best be utilized to facilitate implementation. This paper draws on relevant insights from Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations Theory, which laid the foundation for explicitly attending to the role of communication as a mechanism for implementation strategies to exert their effects. To offer empirically-derived and theory-informed recommendations regarding communication processes to support the effective introduction of new clinical practices. This investigation leverages data from 61 therapists poised to undergo implementation of measurement-based care (MBC) for depressed adults receiving psychotherapy in communi

SUBMITTER: Albright K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127548 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature