Implementation Outcome | Definition | Partners in Care Data Source | Partners in Care Timepoint |
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Participants | |||
Acceptability | Satisfaction, usefulness, applicability, and cultural appropriateness of intervention materials and content | 4-item ranked questions | End of each of 12 classes |
3 open-ended questions | End of each of 12 classes | ||
Attendance | Beginning of each of 12 classes | ||
Focus groups | End of final class in each site | ||
Adoption | Intention, initial decision, or action to try self-management behaviors | 3 open-ended questions | End of each of 12 classes |
Follow-up data collection | 3-months post-baseline data collection | ||
Appropriateness | Perceived fit, relevance, or compatibility of the evidence- based practice for a given consumer | Participation and retention | Beginning of each of 12 classes |
Focus groups | End of final class in each site | ||
Peer Educators | |||
Acceptability | Satisfaction with aspects of the intervention (e.g., content, complexity, comfort, delivery, and credibility) | Focus group | End of the final class |
Adoption | Intention, initial decision, or action to try an evidence-based practice; initial implementation | Delivery of intervention | Throughout intervention |
Appropriateness | Perceived fit, relevance, or compatibility of evidence-based practice in a given setting and/or perceived fit of the program to address a particular issue or problem | Focus group | End of final class |
Feasibility | Extent to which a new treatment or innovation can be successfully used or carried out within a given setting; enabling factors and challenges to implementation | Focus group | End of final class |
Fidelity | Degree to which an intervention was implemented as it was prescribed in the original protocol | Direct observation of peer educators by research staff | Throughout intervention |
Organization/Community | |||
Sustainability | Extent to which a newly implemented treatment is maintained or institutionalized within a community or service setting’s ongoing, stable operations | Peer educators, communication with adopters | Upon study completion |