PROSPER STUDY OF EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTION IMPLEMENTATION QUALITY BY COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS

Abstract

This study examined a community-university partnership model for sustained, high-quality implementation of evidence-based interventions. In the context of a randomized study, it assessed whether implementation quality for both family-focused and school-based universal interventions could be achieved and maintained through community-university partnerships. It also conducted exploratory analyses of factors influencing implementation quality. Results revealed uniformly high rates of both implementation adherence-averaging over 90%-and of other indicators of implementation quality for both family-focused and school-based interventions. Moreover, implementation quality was sustained across two cohorts. Exploratory analyses failed to reveal any significant correlates for family-intervention implementation quality, but did show that some team and instructor characteristics were associated with school-based implementation quality.

Figure 1. Study Time Line.^a

^aImplementation assessments of the family-focused and school-based interventions in both Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 were completed by observers during each of the four implementations of the interventions. The family-focused interventions were completed in the 2nd Quarter of 2003 for Cohort 1, and in the 1st Quarter of 2004 for Cohort 2. The school-based inverventions were completed in the 2nd Quarter of 2004 for Cohort 1, and in the 2nd Quarter of 2005 for Cohort 2.