Implementation strategies to promote measurement-based care in schools: evidence from mental health experts across the USA.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite an established taxonomy of implementation strategies, minimal guidance exists for how to select and tailor strategies to specific practices and contexts. We employed a replicable method to obtain stakeholder perceptions of the most feasible and important implementation strategies to increase mental health providers' use of measurement-based care (MBC) in schools. MBC is the routine use of patient-reported progress measures throughout treatment to inform patient-centered, data-driven treatment adjustments.

Methods

A national sample of 52 school mental health providers and researchers completed two rounds of modified Delphi surveys to rate the relevance, importance, and feasibility of 33 implementation strategies identified for school settings. Strategies we

SUBMITTER: Connors EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9210728 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature