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. 2023 Mar;71(1-2):211-223.
doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12623. Epub 2022 Aug 19.

Predictors of champion behaviors in an evidence-based parenting program: A structural equation modeling approach

Tianyi Ma  1 , Cassandra L Tellegen  1 , Matthew R Sanders  1
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Predictors of champion behaviors in an evidence-based parenting program: A structural equation modeling approach

Tianyi Ma et al. Am J Community Psychol. 2023 Mar.

Abstract

The importance of champions in the implementation of evidence-based public health programs has been well established. Champions perform a range of behaviors which can have significant influence on the adoption and sustainability of interventions. This study investigates champion behaviors in parenting practitioners with the aim to provide insight into the range and extent that practitioners engage in champion behaviors and to examine predictors of practitioners' champion behaviors using structural equation modeling. Data were collected during a large international implementation survey of 1606 practitioners trained to deliver an evidence-based parenting program, the triple P-Positive Parenting Program. We developed a 13-item Champion Behaviors Scale which was administered alongside other measures of predictors of implementation outcomes. Perceived usefulness of the program was the most important facilitator of both public and personal champion behaviors. Certain desirable features of the program tended to not only be positively associated with the perceived usefulness of the program, but also had a unique impact on practitioners' personal champion behaviors. Higher positions within organizations were linked with more public champion behaviors. Although organizational support was found to be unrelated to champion behaviors in the structural model, it facilitated other predictors of champion behaviors.

Keywords: Triple P; champion behaviors; evidence-based program; parenting.

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