Mixed Methods for Implementation Research: Application to Evidence-Based Practice Implementation and Staff Turnover in Community Based Organizations Providing Child Welfare Services

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• Alternative Title:
  Child Maltreat
• Personal Author:
  Aarons, Gregory A. ; Fettes, Danielle L. ; Sommerfeld, David H. ; Palinkas, Lawrence
• Description:
  Many public sector service systems and provider organizations are in some phase of learning about or implementing evidence-based interventions. Child welfare service systems represent a context where implementation spans system, management, and organizational concerns. Research utilizing mixed methods that combine qualitative and quantitative design, data collection, and analytic approaches are particularly well suited to understanding both the process and outcomes of dissemination and implementation efforts in child welfare systems. This article describes the process of using mixed methods in implementation research and provides an applied example of an examination of factors impacting staff retention during an evidence-based intervention implementation in a statewide child welfare system. The authors integrate qualitative data with previously published quantitative analyses of job autonomy and staff turnover during this statewide implementation project in order to illustrate the utility of mixed method approaches in providing a more comprehensive understanding of opportunities and challenges in implementation research.
• Subjects:
  Adult Article Child Child Welfare Community Mental Health Services Dissemination Evidence-based Practice Female Fidelity Focus Groups Home Care Services Humans Implementation Interviews As Topic Male Middle Aged Outcome And Process Assessment (Health Care) Personnel Turnover Program Development Retention Turnover Young Adult

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• Source:
  Child Maltreat. 17(1).
• Pubmed ID:
  22146861
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3841106
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01CE001556/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; R01 MH092950/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; P30MH074678/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; R21 MH082731/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; R01MH072961/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; R01 CE001556/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; R21MH082731/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; R01 MH072961/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; P30 MH074678/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  Oklahoma
• Volume:
  17
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e980398e689c5341baacc11195748f05dda11003fad29c2bc47088d31af76282
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33644/cdc_33644_DS1.pdf
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