TY - JOUR
T1 - Adoption of innovative and evidence-based practices for children and adolescents in state-supported mental health clinics
T2 - A qualitative study
AU - Palinkas, Lawrence A.
AU - Um, Mee Young
AU - Jeong, Chung Hyeon
AU - Chor, Ka Ho Brian
AU - Olin, Serene
AU - Horwitz, Sarah M.
AU - Hoagwood, Kimberly E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded through a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (P30-MH090322: K. Hoagwood, PI).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Author(s).
PY - 2017/3/29
Y1 - 2017/3/29
N2 - Background: This study examined how mental health clinic administrators decided whether or not to adopt evidence-based and other innovative practices by exploring their views of implementation barriers and facilitators and operation of these views in assessment of implementation costs and benefits. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 75 agency chief executive officers and program directors of 34 New York State-licensed mental health clinics serving children and adolescents. Results: Three interconnected themes relating to barriers and facilitators were identified, namely costs and benefits associated with adoption, capacity for adoption, and acceptability of new practices. The highest percentage of participants (86.7%) mentioned costs as a barrier, followed by limited capacity (55.9%) and lack of acceptability (52.9%). The highest percentage (82.3%) of participants identified available capacity as a facilitator, followed by acceptability (41.2%) and benefits or limited costs (24.0%). Assessment of costs and benefits exhibited several principles of behavioural economics, including loss aversion, temporal discounting use of heuristics, sensitivity to monetary incentives, decision fatigue, framing, and environmental influences. Conclusions: The results point to opportunities for using agency leader models to develop strategies to facilitate implementation of evidence-based and innovative practices for children and adolescents.
AB - Background: This study examined how mental health clinic administrators decided whether or not to adopt evidence-based and other innovative practices by exploring their views of implementation barriers and facilitators and operation of these views in assessment of implementation costs and benefits. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 75 agency chief executive officers and program directors of 34 New York State-licensed mental health clinics serving children and adolescents. Results: Three interconnected themes relating to barriers and facilitators were identified, namely costs and benefits associated with adoption, capacity for adoption, and acceptability of new practices. The highest percentage of participants (86.7%) mentioned costs as a barrier, followed by limited capacity (55.9%) and lack of acceptability (52.9%). The highest percentage (82.3%) of participants identified available capacity as a facilitator, followed by acceptability (41.2%) and benefits or limited costs (24.0%). Assessment of costs and benefits exhibited several principles of behavioural economics, including loss aversion, temporal discounting use of heuristics, sensitivity to monetary incentives, decision fatigue, framing, and environmental influences. Conclusions: The results point to opportunities for using agency leader models to develop strategies to facilitate implementation of evidence-based and innovative practices for children and adolescents.
KW - Adoption
KW - Child and adolescent mental health
KW - Evidence-based treatments and practices
KW - Innovation
KW - Mixed methods
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U2 - 10.1186/s12961-017-0190-z
DO - 10.1186/s12961-017-0190-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 28356145
AN - SCOPUS:85016449481
SN - 1478-4505
VL - 15
JO - Health Research Policy and Systems
JF - Health Research Policy and Systems
IS - 1
M1 - 27
ER -