TY - JOUR
T1 - Going-to-scale with the Early Risers conduct problems prevention program
T2 - use of a comprehensive implementation support (CIS) system to optimize fidelity, participation and child outcomes.
AU - Bloomquist, Michael L.
AU - August, Gerald J.
AU - Lee, Susanne S.
AU - Lee, Chih Yuan S
AU - Realmuto, George M.
AU - Klimes-Dougan, Bonnie
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by a grant to Gerald J. August from the National Institute on Drug Abuse ( DA016067 ). The authors would like to thank Ms. Sarah Coleman, the project manager, for her major contribution to this effort.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2012 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - The present study is a descriptive report of a comprehensive implementation support (CIS) service that was used to promote high levels of program fidelity in a going-to-scale intervention trial of the Early Risers conduct problems prevention program. The program was delivered across 27 geographically dispersed, elementary school sites over a two-year period. In this study we examined the level of fidelity achieved by program implementers across intervention components, the rate of child and parent participation across intervention components, and proximal child outcomes targeted by the intervention across two years of programming. Results showed that over the two-year intervention period the program was implemented with high fidelity, participation rates were acceptable, and children made positive gains on target outcomes similar to those found in previous randomized controlled trials. The results suggest that implementation support services may be advantageous in the wide-scale implementation of prevention programs that aim to achieve high implementation fidelity.
AB - The present study is a descriptive report of a comprehensive implementation support (CIS) service that was used to promote high levels of program fidelity in a going-to-scale intervention trial of the Early Risers conduct problems prevention program. The program was delivered across 27 geographically dispersed, elementary school sites over a two-year period. In this study we examined the level of fidelity achieved by program implementers across intervention components, the rate of child and parent participation across intervention components, and proximal child outcomes targeted by the intervention across two years of programming. Results showed that over the two-year intervention period the program was implemented with high fidelity, participation rates were acceptable, and children made positive gains on target outcomes similar to those found in previous randomized controlled trials. The results suggest that implementation support services may be advantageous in the wide-scale implementation of prevention programs that aim to achieve high implementation fidelity.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2012.11.001
DO - 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2012.11.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 23266400
AN - SCOPUS:85027947194
SN - 1873-7870
VL - 38
SP - 19
EP - 27
JO - Evaluation and Program Planning
JF - Evaluation and Program Planning
ER -