ISBNPA Newsletter: Implementation and Scalability SIG

Hello Implementation and Scalability SIG member!

Welcome from the Chair

Hello IS SIG friends,

I want to start by offering a greeting of peace and holding space for the crises taking place on our globe. My heart goes out to the communities, families, and especially children that are affected by the current events of our time. My thoughts are frequently in disbelief of the timing; we all feel the need to breathe easier after the stress of the pandemic. May we each give ourselves and others an extra measure of grace and compassion in these challenging times.

In this edition of our newsletter, we have:

An extensive list of recent publications in implementation science relevant to our work in physical activity and nutrition.
Information on our upcoming April webinar; great topic on scaling interventions with systems and realist perspectives. Don’t miss it!
Reminder of key dates for the upcoming ISBNPA conference. We hope to see you there!
A member spotlight on PhD candidate, Alison Brown

Dr Taren Swindle

SIG Co-Chair

Member Spotlight: Alison Brown

1. Qualifications and Position

I am a PhD candidate and research assistant at Hunter New England Population Health and the University of Newcastle, Australia. I am an Accredited Practicing Dietitian. I am aiming to submit my PhD on the effectiveness of a healthy lunchbox program, in May 2022.

2. What led you to focus your research on I&S?

I have always had a passion for public health nutrition and had the opportunity to work on the SWAP IT healthy lunchbox program led by Dr Rachel Sutherland and Prof Luke Wolfenden. It didn’t take me very long to fully appreciate implementation science research and how valuable it is in the public health space. I have such an appreciation for the work that we do and that our programs of work have the opportunity to be embedded into health service delivery in our local schools and childcare centres.

3. What is your main research interest? What do you love about it?

My main research interest, comes from my love of preventative health, and working in the ‘upstream’ health space with the intention to prevent chronic disease ‘downstream.’ As a dietitian, I believe that public health nutrition has such a pivotal role in the preventative health landscape and therefore my main research interests lie in this space. I am passionate about child nutrition and providing our children with knowledge and skills at a young age that may influence them throughout their life stage. My research interests have therefore centred around the development, planning and evaluation of public health nutrition programs for children. The scalability of these programs is also an area that I continue to love and believe this is where we have potential for population wide impact. I am also very interested in the sustainability of evidence based programs and ways in which to enhance sustainability, which is a research area I am hoping to look into in the near future!

4. As an ECR researcher what are the biggest barriers to conducting I&S research (other than funding) and how have you overcome this?

For me, one of the biggest challenges as a new ECR, is understanding HOW to effectively scale evidence based programs, in a non-clinical space. Fortunately there is more and more being added to the evidence base, and there are frameworks that have been developed to assist, such as the Intervention Scalability Assessment Tool (ISAT), but the lacking of evidence regarding effective scale up strategies is definitely a major barrier to effectively scaling up programs for population wide effect. I don’t know that this is something that will be overcome quickly, but the consistent contribution to the evidence base will enhance the opportunity for a range of ways to effectively scale evidence based programs.

5. Do you have an I&S paper that you would like to share?

We fortunately have a few papers in the works in relation to our SWAP IT healthy lunchbox program, so stay tuned for those, but we did recently publish our economic evaluation of the SWAP IT program. Check it out here: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/11/4136

Selected Recent Publications

Amornsriwatanakul A, Noosorn N, Poonchob K, Wongwat R, Sornprasit S, Markmee P, Rosenberg M, Milton K. How to Make Physical Activity Promotion Work in Thai Schools: Perspectives of Multiple Stakeholders. J Phys Act Health. 2022 Jan 1;19(1):63-70. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2021-0504. Epub 2021 Dec 13. PMID: 34902839.

Brown A, Sutherland R, Reeves P, Nathan N, Wolfenden L. Cost and Cost Effectiveness of a Pilot m-Health Intervention Targeting Parents of School-Aged Children to Improve the Nutritional Quality of Foods Packed in the Lunchbox. Nutrients. 2021, 13(11), 4136. doi: 10.3390/nu13114136.

Chan, P.Sf, Fang, Y, Wong M.Cs, et al. Using Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to investigate facilitators and barriers of implementing alcohol screening and brief intervention among primary care health professionals: a systematic review. Implementation Sci. 2021, 16, 99. doi: 10.1186/s13012-021-01170-8

Damschroder LJ, Reardon CM, Opra Widerquist MA, et al. Conceptualizing outcomes for use with the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR): the CFIR Outcomes Addendum. Implementation Sci. 2022, 17, 7. doi: 10.1186/s13012-021-01181-5

Gold HT, McDermott C, Hoomans T. et al. Cost data in implementation science: categories and approaches to costing. Implementation Sci. 2022, 17, 11. doi: 10.1186/s13012-021-01172-6.

Goldberg, E., Conte, K., Loblay, V. et al. Scale-up of prevention programmes: sustained state-wide use of programme delivery software is explained by normalised self-organised adoption and non-adoption. Implementation Sci 17, 5 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-021-01184-2

Hall A, Wolfenden L, Shoesmith A, McCarthy N, Wiggers J, Bauman AE, et al. The impact of an implementation intervention that increased school's delivery of a mandatory physical activity policy on student outcomes: A cluster-randomised controlled trial. J Sci Med Sport. 2021, Dec, 16:S1440-2440(21)00441-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2021.12.005.

Kerkhoff AD, Farrand E, Marquez C. et al. Addressing health disparities through implementation science—a need to integrate an equity lens from the outset. Implementation Sci. 2022, 17, 13. doi: 10.1186/s13012-022-01189-5.

Lane C, McCrabb S, Nathan N, et al. How effective are physical activity interventions when they are scaled-up: a systematic review. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2021, 18, 16. doi: 10.1186/s12966-021-01080-4.

Lengnick-Hall, R., Gerke, D.R., Proctor, E.K. et al. Six practical recommendations for improved implementation outcomes reporting. Implementation Sci 17, 16 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-021-01183-3

May, C.R., Albers, B., Bracher, M. et al. Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: a normalisation process theory coding manual for qualitative research and instrument development. Implementation Sci 17, 19 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-022-01191-x

Morrow A, Chan P, Tiernan G, Steinberg J, Debono D, Wolfenden L, et al. Building capacity from within: qualitative evaluation of a training program aimed at upskilling healthcare workers in delivering an evidence-based implementation approach. Transl Behav Med. 2022 Jan, 12(1). doi: 10.1093/tbm/ibab094

O’Brien KM, Barnes C, Yoong S, Campbell E, Wyse R, Delaney T, Brown A, Stacey F, Davies L, Lorien S, Hodder RK. School-Based Nutrition Interventions in Children Aged 6 to 18 Years: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews. Nutrients. 2021; 13(11):4113. doi: 10.3390/nu13114113

Sacca, L., Shegog, R., Hernandez, B. et al. Barriers, frameworks, and mitigating strategies influencing the dissemination and implementation of health promotion interventions in indigenous communities: a scoping review. Implementation Sci 17, 18 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-022-01190-y

Sutherland R, Jackson JK, Lane C, McCrabb S, Nathan N, Yoong S, Lum M, Byaruhanga J, McLaughlin M, Brown A, Milat A, Bauman A, Wolfenden L. A systematic review of adaptations and effectiveness of scaled-up nutrition interventions. Nutr Rev. 2021; nuab096. doi: 10.1093/nutrit/nuab096.

Walker, T.J., Kohl, H.W., Bartholomew, J.B. et al. Using Implementation Mapping to develop and test an implementation strategy for active learning to promote physical activity in children: a feasibility study using a hybrid type 2 design. Implement Sci Commun 3, 26 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-022-00271-9

Useful Resources

University of Wisconsin-Madison Dissemination and Implementation short course

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I&S SIG Webinar

Why are some interventions successfully scaled over others? Combining a realist perspective and systems analysis to identify key mechanisms of scaling up.

Wednesday April 6, 2022, 19:30GMT

Speakers: Harriet Koorts and Sam Cassar,

moderated by Rachel Sutherland.

Upcoming Conferences and Webinars

ISBNPA

Date: 18th - 21st May 2022

Early bird registration before:

2 April 2022

Science for the Public Good: Think Tank

Date: 11-12 April 2022

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Masterclass in Implementation Science and Effective Healthcare Improvement in Practice

Date: 18-19 May 2022 or 21-22 September 2022

Find out more and enrol here.

Public Health Conference 2022: 'Accelerating Action'

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Call for student SIG officers

Are you a student and ISBNPA member?

Do you have a keen interest in implementation and scale-up?

Are you interested in helping our SIG to support our members?

If this sounds like you, get in contact by emailing: Jannah.Jones@health.nsw.gov.au

Other I&S newsletters that you may want to subscribe to

National Centre of Implementation Science (NCOIS)

News & Events - National Centre of Implementation Science (ncois.org.au)

European Implementation Collaborative (EIC)

About – European Implementation Collaborative

Centre for Evidence and Implementation (CEI)

Centre for Evidence and Implementation :: September 2021 newsletter (ceiglobal.org)

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Thank you for your interest and support in Implementation and Scale up research!

Taren Swindle (SIG Chair)

Nicole Nathan (SIG Co-Chair)

Femke van Nassau (SIG Past Chair, Founding Chair)

Erin Hennessy (SIG Officer)

Jannah Jones (SIG Officer)

Mary Kennedy (SIG Student Officer)

Matthew ‘Tepi’ Mclaughlin (SIG Student Officer)

Lisa Moran (SIG Officer)

Elaine Murtagh (SIG Officer)

PJ Naylor (SIG Officer)

Thomas Skovgaard (SIG Officer)

Luke Wolfenden (SIG Officer)

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