ArticleChild abuse & neglect2016
Validating the Implementation Climate Scale (ICS) in child welfare organizations.
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- Climate for evidence-based mental health care implementation in Germany: psychometric investigation of the Implementation Climate Scale (ICS).Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Implementation and outcomes of a system-wide women's health 'team goal' to reduce maternal morbidity for black women: a prospective quality improvement study.BMJ open quality · 2022Article
- Testing a Theory of Implementation Leadership and Climate Across Autism Evidence-Based Interventions of Varying Complexity.Behavior therapy · 2022Article
- Measuring implementation climate: psychometric properties of the Implementation Climate Scale (ICS) in Norwegian mental health care services.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Assessing Causal Pathways and Targets of Implementation Variability for EBP use (Project ACTIVE): a study protocol.Implementation science communications · 2021Article
- Factors affecting the implementation of a whole school mindfulness program: a qualitative study using the consolidated framework for implementation research.BMC health services research · 2020Article
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- Interactions Between Clinician and Organizational Characteristics to Predict Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychodynamic Therapy Use.Administration and policy in mental health · 2019Article
- Validation of the Implementation Climate Scale (ICS) in substance use disorder treatment organizations.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2019Article
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- The impact of inter-organizational alignment (IOA) on implementation outcomes: evaluating unique and shared organizational influences in education sector mental health.Implementation science : IS · 2018Article
- Advancing theory on the multilevel role of leadership in the implementation of evidence-based health care practices.Health care management reviewArticle
- Construct validity of the school-implementation climate scale.Implementation research and practiceArticle
- The impact of implementation climate on community mental health clinicians' attitudes toward exposure: An evaluation of the effects of training and consultation.Implementation research and practiceArticle
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There is increasing emphasis on the use of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in child welfare settings and growing recognition of the importance of the organizational environment, and the organization's climate in particular, for how employees perceive and support EBP implementation. Recently, Ehrhart, Aarons, and Farahnak (2014) reported on the development and validation of a measure of EBP implementation climate, the Implementation Climate Scale (ICS), in a sample of mental health clinicians. The ICS consists of 18 items and measures six critical dimensions of implementation climate: focus on EBP, educational support for EBP, recognition for EBP, rewards for EBP, selection or EBP, and selection for openness. The goal of the current study is to extend this work by providing evidence for the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the ICS in a sample of child welfare service providers. Survey data were collected from 215 child welfare providers across three states, 12 organizations, and 43 teams. Confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated good fit to the six-factor model and the alpha reliabilities for the overall measure and its subscales was acceptable. In addition, there was general support for the invariance of the factor structure across the child welfare and mental health sectors. In conclusion, this study provides evidence for the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the ICS measure for use in child welfare service organizations.
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