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Multilevel Mechanisms of Implementation Strategies in Mental Health: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice

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Williams, Nathaniel J.·2016·Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research

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A step toward the development of optimally effective, efficient, and feasible implementation strategies that increase evidence-based treatment integration in mental health services involves identification of the multilevel mechanisms through which these strategies influence implementation outcomes. This article (a) provides an orientation to, and rationale for, consideration of multilevel mediating mechanisms in implementation trials, and (b) systematically reviews randomized controlled trials that examined mediators of implementation strategies in mental health. Nine trials were located. Mediation-related methodological deficiencies were prevalent and no trials supported a hypothesized mediator. The most common reason was failure to engage the mediation target. Discussion focuses on directions to accelerate implementation strategy development in mental health.

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  • Current literature reflects an increasing number of studies testing the effectiveness of implementation strategies and the mechanisms that explain how these strategies may influence implementation outcomes.

    “Current literature also reflects an increasing number of studies testing the effectiveness of implementation strategies and the mechanisms that explain how these strategies may influence implementation outcomes [25–31].”

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    The Introduction reports a proliferation of trials testing implementation strategies in mental health settings, and the Methods identify nine trials that tested an intervening variable. But the Introduction says strategies rarely test theory-based mechanisms; the paper does not establish that studies testing those mechanisms are increasing in number. The indexed passages provide section labels but no page numbers. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • It is not common that mechanisms of implementation strategies are even mentioned, much less tested.

    “Unfortunately, it is not common that mechanisms are even mentioned, much less tested (63, 65, 66).”
  • Advancing these priorities will lead to a better understanding of when, where, why, and how implementation strategies exert their effects.

    “Advancing these priorities will lead to a better understanding of when, where, why, and how implementation strategies exert their effects (29, 63).”

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  1. Williams NJ Mechanisms of change in an organizational culture and climate intervention for increasing clinicians’ evidence-based practice adoption in mental health (Unpublished doctoral dissertation) 2015 Knoxville University of Tennessee http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3482.

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Authors
Williams, N. J.
Affiliations
Boise State University (US)
Corresponding author
Williams, Nathaniel J.
Venue
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
Published
2015-10-16
Volume
43
Issue
5
Pages
783-798
ISSN
  • 0894-587X (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-3289
OpenAlex
W2284982684
Cited by
164
References
80
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1
FWCI
0.96
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Scholar Works (Boise State University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (F31MH099846)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Sciences Research and Education
Keywords
implementation strategies, multilevel mediation, implementation outcomes, mental health services, implementation research
MeSH terms
Delivery of Health Care, Humans, Mental Health Services, Evidence-Based Practice, Multilevel Analysis

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