- Title
- Toward criteria for pragmatic measurement in implementation research and practice: a stakeholder-driven approach using concept mapping.
- Creator
- Powell, Byron J.; Stanick, Cameo F.; Halko, Heather M.; Dorsey, Caitlin N.; Weiner, Bryan J.; Barwick, Melanie A.; Damschroder, Laura J.; Wensing, Michel; Wolfenden, Luke; Lewis, Cara C.
- Relation
- Implementation Science : IS Vol. 12, no. 118
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0649-x
- Publisher
- Biomed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Advancing implementation research and practice requires valid and reliable measures of implementation determinants, mechanisms, processes, strategies, and outcomes. However, researchers and implementation stakeholders are unlikely to use measures if they are not also pragmatic. The purpose of this study was to establish a stakeholder-driven conceptualization of the domains that comprise the pragmatic measure construct. It built upon a systematic review of the literature and semi-structured stakeholder interviews that generated 47 criteria for pragmatic measures, and aimed to further refine that set of criteria by identifying conceptually distinct categories of the pragmatic measure construct and providing quantitative ratings of the criteria's clarity and importance.Twenty-four stakeholders with expertise in implementation practice completed a concept mapping activity wherein they organized the initial list of 47 criteria into conceptually distinct categories and rated their clarity and importance. Multidimensional scaling, hierarchical cluster analysis, and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data.The 47 criteria were meaningfully grouped into four distinct categories: (1) acceptable, (2) compatible, (3) easy, and (4) useful. Average ratings of clarity and importance at the category and individual criteria level will be presented.This study advances the field of implementation science and practice by providing clear and conceptually distinct domains of the pragmatic measure construct. Next steps will include a Delphi process to develop consensus on the most important criteria and the development of quantifiable pragmatic rating criteria that can be used to assess measures.
- Subject
- implementation science; Advancing Implementation Science through Measure Development and Evaluation study; Implementation Outcomes Framework; Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1350485
- Identifier
- uon:30561
- Identifier
- ISSN:1748-5908
- Rights
- © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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