Trial reportPreventing chronic disease2017
Controlling Chronic Diseases Through Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Group-Randomized Trial.
Trial report in Preventing chronic disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Strategies to implement evidence-informed decision making at the organizational level: a rapid systematic review.BMC health services research · 2024Pooled it
- Enhancing evidence-based diabetes and chronic disease control among local health departments: a multi-phase dissemination study with a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial component.Implementation science : IS · 2017Trial
- Interventions to Enable or Improve Evidence-Informed Decision Making in Public Health and Preventive Medicine: A Scoping Review.AJPM focus · 2026Review
- Improving cancer prevention and control through implementing academic-local public health department partnerships - protocol for a cluster-randomized implementation trial using a positive deviance approach.Implementation science communications · 2025Article
- Designing for dissemination among public health and clinical practitioners in the USA.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2024Article
- How to "Start Small and Just Keep Moving Forward": Mixed Methods Results From a Stepped-Wedge Trial to Support Evidence-Based Processes in Local Health Departments.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Long-Term Evaluation of a Course on Evidence-Based Public Health in the U.S. and Europe.American journal of preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Impact of Contextual Factors on the Attendance and Role in the Evidence-Based Chronic Disease Prevention Programs Among Primary Care Practitioners in Shanghai, China.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Use and Awareness of The Community Guide in State and Local Health Department Chronic Disease Programs.Preventing chronic disease · 2020Article
- Practitioner perspectives on building capacity for evidence-based public health in state health departments in the United States: a qualitative case study.Implementation science communications · 2020Article
- Designing Capacity-Building Supports to Promote Evidence-Based Programs in Community-Based Organizations Working with Underserved Populations.Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action · 2020Article
- Local Health Department Accreditation Is Associated With Organizational Supports for Evidence-Based Decision Making.Frontiers in public health · 2019Article
- Lessons Learned in Promoting Evidence-Based Public Health: Perspectives from Managers in State Public Health Departments.Journal of community health · 2018Article
- Management Practices to Build Evidence-Based Decision-Making Capacity for Chronic Disease Prevention in Georgia: A Case Study.Preventing chronic disease · 2018Article
- Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Public Health: Reconciling the Pulls of Practice and the Push of Research.Annual review of public health · 2018Review
- Preparing Public Health Professionals to Make Evidence-Based Decisions: A Comparison of Training Delivery Methods in the United States.Frontiers in public health · 2018Article
- Equipping the Public Health Workforce of the Future: Evaluation of an Evidence-Based Public Health Training Delivered Through Academic-Health Department Partnerships.Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMPArticle
- Organizational Supports for Research Evidence Use in State Public Health Agencies: A Latent Class Analysis.Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMPArticle
- Assessing Organizational Supports for Evidence-Based Decision Making in Local Public Health Departments in the United States: Development and Psychometric Properties of a New Measure.Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMPObservational
- The Relationships Between State Health Department Practitioners' Perceptions of Organizational Supports and Evidence-Based Decision-Making Skills.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
introductionAlthough practitioners in state health departments are ideally positioned to implement evidence-based interventions, few studies have examined how to build their capacity to do so. The objective of this study was to explore how to increase the use of evidence-based decision-making processes at both the individual and organization levels.
methodsWe conducted a 2-arm, group-randomized trial with baseline data collection and follow-up at 18 to 24 months. Twelve state health departments were paired and randomly assigned to intervention or control condition. In the 6 intervention states, a multiday training on evidence-based decision making was conducted from March 2014 through March 2015 along with a set of supplemental capacity-building activities. Individual-level outcomes were evidence-based decision making skills of public health practitioners; organization-level outcomes were access to research evidence and participatory decision making. Mixed analysis of covariance models was used to evaluate the intervention effect by accounting for the cluster randomized trial design. Analysis was performed from March through May 2017.
resultsParticipation 18 to 24 months after initial training was 73.5%. In mixed models adjusted for participant and state characteristics, the intervention group improved significantly in the overall skill gap (P = .01) and in 6 skill areas. Among the 4 organizational variables, only access to evidence and skilled staff showed an intervention effect (P = .04).
conclusionTailored and active strategies are needed to build capacity at the individual and organization levels for evidence-based decision making. Our study suggests several dissemination interventions for consideration by leaders seeking to improve public health practice.
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