Symposium 59 - Strategies to incorporate community partners' perspectives from design to implementation

Saturday, November 18, 2023

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST

Location: Quinault, Level 5

CE: 1.5

Keywords: Dissemination, Implementation,
Level of Familiarity: All
Recommended Readings: Drahota, A. M. Y., Meza, R. D., Brikho, B., Naaf, M., Estabillo, J. A., Gomez, E. D., ... & Aarons, G. A. (2016). Community‐academic partnerships: A systematic review of the state of the literature and recommendations for future research. The Milbank Quarterly, 94(1), 163-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12184, Crane, M. E., Atkins, M. S., Becker, S. J., Purtle, J., Olino, T. M., and Kendall, P. C. (2021). The effect of caregiver key opinion leaders on increasing caregiver demand for evidence-based practices to treat youth anxiety: protocol for a randomized control trial. Implementation Science Communications, 2(1), 107. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-021-00213-x , Okamura, K. H., Orimoto, T. E., Mah, A. C., Slavin, L. A., Rocco, S., Shimabukuro, S. K., ... & Nakamura, B. J. (2018). Insights in public health: the help your keiki website: increasing youth and caregiver awareness of youth psychosocial mental health treatment. Hawai'i Journal of Medicine & Public Health, 77(8), 203., Sarfan, L. D., Gasperetti, C. E., Gumport, N. B., & Harvey, A. G. (2022). Outcomes From the Transdiagnostic Sleep and Circadian Intervention (TranS-C) for Midlife and Older Adults With Serious Mental Illness and Sleep and Circadian Dysfunction. Behavior Therapy, 53(4), 585-599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2022.02.001,

Chair(s)

AH

Alyssa Herman, B.A. (she/her/hers)

Graduate Student
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

Discussant(s)

KO

Kelsie Okamura, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)

Implementation Researcher
The Baker Center for Children and Families
Boston, Massachusetts

Presenter(s)

TP

Tessa Palafu, B.A. (she/her/hers)

Implementation Research Assistant
The Baker Center for Children and Families/Harvard Medical School
Wahiawa, Hawaii
AH

Alyssa Herman, B.A. (she/her/hers)

Graduate Student
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
MC

Margaret E. Crane, Ph.D.

Brown Research on Implementation and Dissemination to Guide Evidence Use (BRiDGE) Program
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NG

Nicole Gumport, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)

Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University
Stanford, California
LS

Laurel D. Sarfan, PhD

Postdoctoral scholar
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

In response to the widening research-practice gap in mental health services, there have been increasing recommendations for community-academic partnerships (CAPs). CAPs leverage the scientific knowledge of academics to identify evidence-based practices and the local knowledge of community partners to provide insights into how those practices can fit with their context. There are a variety of ways in which collaborators can be involved in the design, delivery, and implementation of evidence-based practices. By incorporating informant feedback across these processes, we can advance the acceptability, appropriateness, and adoption of evidence-based practices.
This symposium includes five studies that showcase the value of incorporating community partners’ perspectives in innovation development, delivery, and implementation. Aligned with this year’s theme of cultivating joy with CBT, these studies will show how including the voices of clients, mental health professionals, and the general public can improve use of evidence-based information and treatment practices. Presenter 1 will describe how community partners’ perspectives were incorporated into innovation development. Specifically, they will discuss recent user analytics of an evidence-based, mental health website developed in partnership with youth and their families. The next two presenters will discuss how practitioner and recipient perspectives can facilitate mental health promotion and prevention efforts. Presenter 2 will present data on free, online, mental health resources that mental health professionals believe are helpful for educating the general public. Presenter 3 will present qualitative data on how involving opinion leaders in educational outreach presentations can improve caregiver uptake of mental health information. The final two presenters will discuss how practitioner perspectives can facilitate the delivery, re-design, and implementation of transdiagnostic interventions. Presenter 4 will explore community mental health professionals’ qualitative feedback of the facilitators and barriers of delivering a transdiagnostic intervention. Finally, presenter 5 will discuss community mental health professionals’ post-implementation perceptions of the transdiagnostic treatment that was adapted based on feedback from Presenter 4’s study. Our discussant, who has expertise in CAPs that advance implementation and dissemination science, will highlight key themes across these presentations and offer recommendations on incorporating community partners’ perspectives in mental health services research and practice.
These presentations will collectively review effective strategies for incorporating multiple informants’ perspectives across implementation and dissemination. Attendees of this symposium will hear exemplars of studies that incorporated community partners’ perspectives that can inform their own evidence- and contextually based clinical science and practice.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the session, the learner will be able to:

Describe how community partners’ perspectives can improve implementation and dissemination outcomes.
List methods for soliciting collaborators’ perspectives in clinical science.
Identify multiple informants whose feedback could be incorporated into clinical science.
Describe three approaches for using partners’ perspectives to improve mental health promotion/prevention.
Discuss two approaches for using collaborators’ perspective to improve intervention design and delivery.