Variation in Stakeholder Preferences for Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Behavioral Health Care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The authors examined whether stakeholders in behavioral health care differ in their preferences for strategies that support the implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs).

Methods

Using data collected in March and April 2019 in a survey of stakeholders in Philadelphia Medicaid’s behavioral health care system, the authors compared empirical Bayes preference weights for implementation strategies across clinicians, supervisors, agency executives, and payers.

Results

Preferences for implementation strategies overlapped among the stakeholders (N=357 survey respondents). Financial incentives were consistently ranked as most useful and performance feedback as the least useful for implementing EBPs. However, areas of divergence were identified. For example, p

SUBMITTER: Candon M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9500117 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature