Hickey, Gráinne and McGilloway, Sinead and Leckey, Yvonne and Stokes, Ann and Bywater, Tracey and Donnelly, Michael (2021) “Putting Meat on the Bones”: Understanding the Implementation of a Community-Based Early Intervention and Prevention Programme—Contextual, Person, and Programme Influences. Prevention Science, 22 (1). pp. 113-129. ISSN 1389-4986

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Abstract

The adoption and effective delivery of evidence-based interventions within “real-world” community-based, primary health care service settings are of crucial importance. In this paper, we explore the successes and challenges of implementing a new complex, group-based, early parenting intervention called the Parent and Infant (PIN) programme. This study involved a systematic analysis of the processes and factors that influence the implementation of the PIN programme; the analysis was guided and informed by the Implementation Outcome Framework and the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. A documentary review, alongside a series of one-to-one interviews and small group discussions with a range of stakeholders (n = 44), and 7 focus groups (n = 24) were used as data sources. Factors that promoted programme adoption, acceptability, and implementation feasibility included programme characteristics and stakeholder attitudes, as well as organisational and systems factors (e.g. leadership and collaboration). Key challenges to implementation success included engagement and adoption barriers. This research provides a useful and important example of real-world, theory-driven implementation research which helped to identify interrelated processes, factors, and contexts which shape and influence the implementation of early intervention and prevention programmes, removed for blind review.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Evaluation; Implementation science; Mechanisms of impact; Implementation outcomes; Early intervention and prevention; Early parenting intervention;
Academic Unit:	Assisting Living & Learning,ALL institute Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI
Item ID:	16679
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-020-01170-y
Depositing User:	Dr. Sinéad McGilloway
Date Deposited:	07 Nov 2022 17:16
Journal or Publication Title:	Prevention Science
Publisher:	Springer
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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