Frances Wallace's research while affiliated with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other places

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The failure of better science to readily produce better services has led to increasing interest in the science and practice of implementation. The results of recent reviews of implementation literature and best practices are summarized in this article. Two frameworks related to implementation stages and core implementation components are described...
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As the number of schools implementing systemic, schoolwide positive behavior support (PBS) processes expands (nationally, at least 5,000 schools are participating), increasing attention is being paid to the efficacy of implementation. This article describes a case study of the experiences of Florida's Positive Behavior Support Project, which used a...
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... Early-stage resistance subsided as skeptics became familiar with the WAJA and observed their impact. These findings add to literature on acceptability and diffusion of innovation, which emphasizes similar factors [71,72]. This analysis suggests that these mechanisms helped Connect achieve critical proximal outcomes, such as legitimacy, household members satisfaction, and community acceptance, which, we conjecture, facilitated caregivers' uptake of health behaviors that, in turn, led to positive health effects, importantly the reduced risk of childhood illness. ...
... ISP meetings were seen as more appropriate for helping school teams with tasks such as data-based decision making and resolving problems. This corroborates other studies showing that TA can facilitate these aspects of PBIS implementation [60]. ...
... However, evidence for the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the burden of delirium in the intensive care has been inconclusive (49)(50)(51)(52)(53)(54), and none of these intensive care studies focused purely on post-operative populations. Gaps are in part attributable to a lack of focus on the effective implementation and dissemination of evidence into practice (55)(56)(57). There is a lack of good evidence supporting the use of pharmacological interventions to prevent delirium in the intensive care setting. ...
... Despite the evidence and global attention, there is a gap between what is known about the effectiveness of parenting programs when delivered via randomized trials and the extent to which they are delivered in practice via community settings. This "science to service gap" (Fixsen et al., 2009) is commonly acknowledged in the literature, particularly at scale (Gottfredson et al., 2015) and in lowand middle-income contexts where violence against children is prevalent (Hillis et al., 2016;Knerr et al., 2013;Shenderovich, 2021;Stoltenborgh et al., 2013). Among the few studies that examine scale-up, there has been mixed evidence of program effectiveness (e.g., Gray et al., 2018;Marryat et al., 2017;Shapiro et al., 2010). ...
... The absence of a psychometrically sound scale is a key gap in the current literature given that: 1) there is evidence linking favourable TIC beliefs to reduced youth trauma symptoms and higher TIC implementation; 2) there is a clear need to identify the 8 mechanisms of behavioural and attitudinal change to enhance the likelihood of successful TIC implementation (Purtle, 2020); and 3) the extent to which a system is regarded as 'trauma informed' often depends on the moment-to-moment and day-to-day interactions between carers and youth (Metz et al., 2007;Baker, Brown & Wilcox, 2012). Carers' beliefs about TIC practices are potentially a critical mediator for TIC practice implementation, and with this in mind, accurately measuring these beliefs becomes key to successful implementation (Baker, Kupersmidt, Voegler-Lee, Arnold, & Willoughby, 2010;Fixsen et al., 2009). ...