Aaron R. Lyon
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View article: Leveraging Community Engagement and Human-Centered Design to Develop Multilevel Implementation Strategies to Enhance Adoption of a Health Equity Intervention
Leveraging Community Engagement and Human-Centered Design to Develop Multilevel Implementation Strategies to Enhance Adoption of a Health Equity Intervention Open
View article: School-Partnered Collaborative Care (SPACE) for Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes: Development and Usability Study of a Virtual Intervention With Multisystem Community Partners
School-Partnered Collaborative Care (SPACE) for Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes: Development and Usability Study of a Virtual Intervention With Multisystem Community Partners Open
Background School-partnered interventions may improve health outcomes for children with type 1 diabetes, though there is limited evidence to support their effectiveness and sustainability. Family, school, or health system factors may inter…
View article: Outcome preferences in fidelity-adaptation scenarios across evidence-based parenting programs: A discrete choice experiment
Outcome preferences in fidelity-adaptation scenarios across evidence-based parenting programs: A discrete choice experiment Open
View article: Human-Centered Design to Enhance Implementation and Impact in Health
Human-Centered Design to Enhance Implementation and Impact in Health Open
Human-centered design (HCD) is an approach that aligns innovation development with the needs of the people and the settings where those innovations will be used. HCD is increasingly being applied across a variety of health domains, most of…
View article: Harnessing Human-Centered Design for Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions and Implementation Strategies in Community Settings: Protocol for Redesign to Improve Usability, Engagement, and Appropriateness
Harnessing Human-Centered Design for Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions and Implementation Strategies in Community Settings: Protocol for Redesign to Improve Usability, Engagement, and Appropriateness Open
Background Although substantial progress has been made in establishing evidence-based psychosocial clinical interventions and implementation strategies for mental health, translating research into practice—particularly in more accessible, …
View article: Changing hearts and minds: theorizing how, when, and under what conditions three social influence implementation strategies work
Changing hearts and minds: theorizing how, when, and under what conditions three social influence implementation strategies work Open
Background Opinion leadership, educational outreach visiting, and innovation championing are commonly used strategies to address barriers to implementing innovations and evidence-based practices in healthcare settings. Despite voluminous r…
View article: “Going Above and Beyond” in the Education Sector: Extension and Validation of the School Implementation Citizenship Behavior Scale (SICBS)
“Going Above and Beyond” in the Education Sector: Extension and Validation of the School Implementation Citizenship Behavior Scale (SICBS) Open
Background: Employee behaviors that strategically support implementation (i.e., implementation citizenship behavior) are hypothesized to promote the successful adoption and high-fidelity use of evidence-based practices (EBPs). Implementati…
View article: Harnessing Human-Centered Design for Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions and Implementation Strategies in Community Settings: Protocol for Redesign to Improve Usability, Engagement, and Appropriateness (Preprint)
Harnessing Human-Centered Design for Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions and Implementation Strategies in Community Settings: Protocol for Redesign to Improve Usability, Engagement, and Appropriateness (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Although substantial progress has been made in establishing evidence-based psychosocial clinical interventions and implementation strategies for mental health, translating research into practice—particularly in more accessible,…
View article: Development of a method for Making Optimal Decisions for Intervention Flexibility during Implementation (MODIFI): a modified Delphi study
Development of a method for Making Optimal Decisions for Intervention Flexibility during Implementation (MODIFI): a modified Delphi study Open
Background Intervention adaptation is often necessary to improve the fit between evidence-based practices/programs and implementation contexts. Existing frameworks describe intervention adaptation processes but do not provide detailed step…
View article: Conducting Research at the Intersection of HCI and Health: Building and Supporting Teams with Diverse Expertise to Increase Public Health Impact
Conducting Research at the Intersection of HCI and Health: Building and Supporting Teams with Diverse Expertise to Increase Public Health Impact Open
Research at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI) and health is increasingly done by collaborative cross-disciplinary teams. The need for cross-disciplinary teams arises from the interdisciplinary nature of the work itself-w…
View article: Correction: Leveraging human-centered design and causal pathway diagramming toward enhanced specifcation and development of innovative implementation strategies: a case example of an outreach tool to address racial inequities in breast cancer screening
Correction: Leveraging human-centered design and causal pathway diagramming toward enhanced specifcation and development of innovative implementation strategies: a case example of an outreach tool to address racial inequities in breast cancer screening Open
View article: Inter-Organizational Alignment and Implementation Outcomes in Integrated Mental Healthcare for Children and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study
Inter-Organizational Alignment and Implementation Outcomes in Integrated Mental Healthcare for Children and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study Open
Background: Integrated care involves care provided by a team of professionals, often in non-traditional settings. A common example worldwide is integrated school-based mental health (SBMH), which involves externally employed clinicians pro…
View article: Development of a method for Making Optimal Decisions for Intervention Flexibility during Implementation (MODIFI): A modified Delphi study
Development of a method for Making Optimal Decisions for Intervention Flexibility during Implementation (MODIFI): A modified Delphi study Open
View article: Gender Affirming Psychotherapy (GAP): Core principles and skills to reduce the mental healthcare "gap" for transgender youth
Gender Affirming Psychotherapy (GAP): Core principles and skills to reduce the mental healthcare "gap" for transgender youth Open
Objectives: Transgender youth are significantly more likely to need mental healthcare than cisgender youth due to their high exposure to discrimination and victimization – including within mental healthcare. Accordingly, transgender youth …
View article: Gender Affirming Psychotherapy (GAP): Core principles and skills to reduce the mental healthcare "gap" for transgender youth
Gender Affirming Psychotherapy (GAP): Core principles and skills to reduce the mental healthcare "gap" for transgender youth Open
Objectives: Transgender youth are significantly more likely to need mental healthcare than cisgender youth due to their high exposure to discrimination and victimization – including within mental healthcare. Accordingly, transgender youth …
View article: Study protocol of a randomized trial of STRIPES: a schoolyear, peer-delivered high school intervention for students with ADHD
Study protocol of a randomized trial of STRIPES: a schoolyear, peer-delivered high school intervention for students with ADHD Open
Background Youth with ADHD are at risk of academic impairments, dropping out of high school, and dysfunction in young adulthood. Interventions delivered early in high school could prevent these harmful outcomes, yet few high school student…
View article: Intervention Fidelity Conditionally Mediates the Association Between Educators' Beliefs and Student Outcomes in SWPBIS: A School-Level Moderated Mediation Analysis
Intervention Fidelity Conditionally Mediates the Association Between Educators' Beliefs and Student Outcomes in SWPBIS: A School-Level Moderated Mediation Analysis Open
Existing literature has established the effectiveness of school-wide positive behavioral interventions and supports (SWPBIS) for improving school-level student behavioral and academic outcomes. But the real-world implementation of SWPBIS i…
View article: A Pre-Implementation Enhancement Strategy to Increase the Yield of Training and Consultation for School-Based Behavioral Preventive Practices: a Triple-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial
A Pre-Implementation Enhancement Strategy to Increase the Yield of Training and Consultation for School-Based Behavioral Preventive Practices: a Triple-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial Open
View article: School Mental Health Professionals’ Knowledge of Stereotypes and Implicit Bias Toward Black and Latinx Youths
School Mental Health Professionals’ Knowledge of Stereotypes and Implicit Bias Toward Black and Latinx Youths Open
Clinician bias is a contributor to health care inequities, but research on racial-ethnic bias among mental health professionals, especially toward minoritized youths, is limited. This column describes two studies involving mental health cl…
View article: Determinants of School Diabetes Care Services and Quality Through the Lens of the School Nurse
Determinants of School Diabetes Care Services and Quality Through the Lens of the School Nurse Open
Schools play a critical role in students' diabetes management and ensure their safety and well-being. We conducted key informant interviews with 11 school nurses in Missouri to assess determinants for diabetes care implementation. Five the…
View article: A mixed‐method study examining solutions to common barriers to teachers' adoption of evidence‐based classroom practices
A mixed‐method study examining solutions to common barriers to teachers' adoption of evidence‐based classroom practices Open
We conducted a mixed‐method focus group study to (a) assess the appropriateness and likely effectiveness of strategies that target individual behavior change mechanisms associated with perceived barriers of lack of time and unsupportive le…
View article: A Pre-Implementation Enhancement Strategy to Increase the Yield of Training and Consultation for School-Based Behavioral Preventive Practices: A Triple-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial
A Pre-Implementation Enhancement Strategy to Increase the Yield of Training and Consultation for School-Based Behavioral Preventive Practices: A Triple-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial Open
Background: As the most common setting where youth access behavioral healthcare, the education sector frequently employs training and follow-up consultation as cornerstone implementation strategies to promote the implementation of evidence…
View article: The Interaction Between General and Strategic Leadership and Climate on Their Cross-Level Associations with Implementer Attitudes Toward Universal Prevention Programs for Youth Mental Health: A Multilevel Cross-Sectional Study
The Interaction Between General and Strategic Leadership and Climate on Their Cross-Level Associations with Implementer Attitudes Toward Universal Prevention Programs for Youth Mental Health: A Multilevel Cross-Sectional Study Open
Emerging literature highlighted the importance to discern the general and strategic types of organizational context (OC) factors (e.g., leadership and climate) and explore their interaction effect on individual implementation behaviors (e.…
View article: The Interaction Between General and Strategic Leadership and Climate on Their Cross-Level Associations with Implementer Attitudes Toward Universal Prevention Programs for Youth Mental Health: A Multilevel Cross-Sectional Study
The Interaction Between General and Strategic Leadership and Climate on Their Cross-Level Associations with Implementer Attitudes Toward Universal Prevention Programs for Youth Mental Health: A Multilevel Cross-Sectional Study Open
Background The education sector is one of the most common and accessible settings for universal prevention programs for youth mental health. But it suffers from suboptimal implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs). Although the org…
View article: A Theory-Informed Pre-Implementation Enhancement Strategy Targeting Mechanisms and Outcomes of Implementation: A Triple-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial
A Theory-Informed Pre-Implementation Enhancement Strategy Targeting Mechanisms and Outcomes of Implementation: A Triple-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial Open
Background As the most common setting where youth access behavioral health services, the education sector frequently employs training and follow-up consultation as cornerstone implementation strategies to promote the implementation of evid…
View article: Usability Issues in Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions and Implementation Strategies: Cross-project Analysis
Usability Issues in Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions and Implementation Strategies: Cross-project Analysis Open
Background People often prefer evidence-based psychosocial interventions (EBPIs) for mental health care; however, these interventions frequently remain unavailable to people in nonspecialty or integrated settings, such as primary care and …
View article: Usability Issues in Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions and Implementation Strategies: Cross-project Analysis (Preprint)
Usability Issues in Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions and Implementation Strategies: Cross-project Analysis (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND People often prefer evidence-based psychosocial interventions (EBPIs) for mental health care; however, these interventions frequently remain unavailable to people in nonspecialty or integrated settings, such as primary care and…
View article: Implementation Strategies to Promote Measurement-based Care in Schools: Evidence from Mental Health Experts Across the United States
Implementation Strategies to Promote Measurement-based Care in Schools: Evidence from Mental Health Experts Across the United States Open
Background: Despite an established, comprehensive taxonomy of implementation strategies, minimal guidance exists for how to select and adapt strategies to specific services and contexts. We employed a replicable method to identify the most…
View article: Expect the Unexpected: A Qualitative Study of the Ripple Effects of Children’s Mental Health Services Implementation Efforts
Expect the Unexpected: A Qualitative Study of the Ripple Effects of Children’s Mental Health Services Implementation Efforts Open
Background: Strategies to implement evidence-based interventions (EBIs) in children’s mental health services have complex direct and indirect causal impacts on multiple outcomes. Ripple effects are outcomes that are caused by EBI implement…
View article: Assessing provider perceptions of training: Initial evaluation of the Acceptability, Feasibility, and Appropriateness Scale
Assessing provider perceptions of training: Initial evaluation of the Acceptability, Feasibility, and Appropriateness Scale Open
There is a well-documented gap between research and practice in the treatment of mental health problems. One promising approach to bridging this gap is training community-based providers in evidence-based practices (EBPs). However, a pauci…