TY - JOUR
KW - Communication
KW - Evidence-Based Practice/organization & administration/standards
KW - Health Promotion
KW - Humans
KW - National Cancer Institute (U.S.)/standards
KW - Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)/organization & administration/standards
KW - Program Evaluation
KW - Research Design/standards
KW - Research Support as Topic/standards
KW - United States
AU - R. S. Kessler
AU - E. P. Purcell
AU - R. E. Glasgow
AU - L. M. Klesges
AU - R. M. Benkeser
AU - C. J. Peek
A1 - 
AB - Many grant proposals identify the use of a given evaluation model or framework but offer little about how such models are implemented. The authors discuss what it means to employ a specific model, RE-AIM, and key dimensions from this model for program planning, implementation, evaluation, and reporting. The authors report both conceptual and content specifications for the use of the RE-AIM model and a content review of 42 recent dissemination and implementation grant applications to National Institutes of Health that proposed the use of this model. Outcomes include the extent to which proposals addressed the overall RE-AIM model and specific items within the five dimensions in their methods or evaluation plans. The majority of grants used only some elements of the model (less than 10% contained thorough measures across all RE-AIM dimensions). Few met criteria for "fully developed use" of RE-AIM and the percentage of key issues addressed varied from, on average, 45% to 78% across the RE-AIM dimensions. The results and discussion of key criteria should help investigators in their use of RE-AIM and illuminate the broader issue of comprehensive use of evaluation models.
BT - Evaluation & the health professions
C5 - General Literature
CP - 1
CY - United States
DO - 10.1177/0163278712446066
IS - 1
JF - Evaluation & the health professions
N2 - Many grant proposals identify the use of a given evaluation model or framework but offer little about how such models are implemented. The authors discuss what it means to employ a specific model, RE-AIM, and key dimensions from this model for program planning, implementation, evaluation, and reporting. The authors report both conceptual and content specifications for the use of the RE-AIM model and a content review of 42 recent dissemination and implementation grant applications to National Institutes of Health that proposed the use of this model. Outcomes include the extent to which proposals addressed the overall RE-AIM model and specific items within the five dimensions in their methods or evaluation plans. The majority of grants used only some elements of the model (less than 10% contained thorough measures across all RE-AIM dimensions). Few met criteria for "fully developed use" of RE-AIM and the percentage of key issues addressed varied from, on average, 45% to 78% across the RE-AIM dimensions. The results and discussion of key criteria should help investigators in their use of RE-AIM and illuminate the broader issue of comprehensive use of evaluation models.
PP - United States
PY - 2013
SN - 1552-3918; 0163-2787
T1 - What does it mean to "employ" the RE-AIM model?
T2 - Evaluation & the health professions
TI - What does it mean to "employ" the RE-AIM model?
U1 - General Literature
U2 - 22615498
U3 - 10.1177/0163278712446066
VL - 36
VO - 1552-3918; 0163-2787
Y1 - 2013
ER -