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Six‐Year Sustainability of Evidence‐Based Intervention Implementation Quality by Community‐University Partnerships: The PROSPER Study
Author(s) -
Spoth Richard,
Guyll Max,
Redmond Cleve,
Greenberg Mark,
Feinberg Mark
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/s10464-011-9430-5
Subject(s) - general partnership , psychological intervention , sustainability , context (archaeology) , public health , quality (philosophy) , intervention (counseling) , health psychology , implementation research , relevance (law) , psychology , public relations , medical education , nursing , medicine , political science , geography , law , biology , ecology , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology
There is a knowledge gap concerning how well community‐based teams fare in implementing evidence‐based interventions (EBIs) over many years, a gap that is important to fill because sustained high quality EBI implementation is essential to public health impact. The current study addresses this gap by evaluating data from PROSPER, a community‐university intervention partnership model, in the context of a randomized‐control trial of 28 communities. Specifically, it examines community teams’ sustainability of implementation quality on a range of measures, for both family‐focused and schoolbased EBIs. Average adherence ratings approached 90% for family‐focused and school‐based EBIs, across as many as 6 implementation cohorts. Additional indicators of implementation quality similarly showed consistently positive results. Correlations of the implementation quality outcomes with a number of characteristics of community teams and intervention leaders were calculated to explore their potential relevance to sustained implementation quality. Though several relationships attained statistical significance at particular points in time, none were stable across cohorts. The role of PROSPER's continuous, proactive technical assistance in producing the positive results is discussed.