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Implementation Science Funding Award from Pitt CTSI

Posted on June 19, 2024 by OIE

We welcome our partner in the Pitt innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), for a guest post on an exciting funding opportunity to bring evidence developed in Pitt labs into a clinical setting.

 

Do you have evidence you want to implement in your clinical setting? Do you have experience in Implementation Science and want to find a clinical partner to put it to use? You may just be the perfect candidate for the Implementation Lab Pilot Award (ILPA)!

This funding opportunity from the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) aims to facilitate connections between University of Pittsburgh researchers and organizational Health Operations Partners that enable them to conduct Dissemination and Implementation research aimed at getting priority evidence-based practices into clinics and communities.

“The ILPA provided an opportunity to conduct a small-scale study exploring how to improve implementation of our intervention,” said Katherine Guyon-Harris, 2023 ILPA recipient for her project “Promoting Positive Parenting Through Primary Care,” which includes The Family Check-Up (FCU), an evidence-based parenting intervention that promotes positive parenting practices and the development of health parent/child relationships.

The FCU is unique in its ability to address the broad psychosocial needs of families, promoting both child and caregiver wellbeing and preventing negative social and academic outcomes from early childhood to adolescence.

Pediatric primary care is at the front lines of connection to families and thus an ideal setting to promote optimal growth and development beginning at birth. New babies and their families will engage with primary care multiple times across the first years of life, offering ample opportunities for identification and monitoring of challenges with parenting and child behavior and referral to intervention.

This project is the first to examine a practice-based (i.e., non-research-based) implementation of FCU in pediatric primary care towards sustainability of the intervention embedded within primary care. The project examined the adoptability of FCU in partnership with the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP Primary Care Center–Oakland).

Dr. Guyon-Harris analyzed barriers and facilitators to implementation by surveying groups of constituents with vested interest in the intervention, including clinic staff and providers, payers, and families with young children. She also created materials keyed to each constituent group that contain the necessary information delivered through the most appropriate channels at the most optimal time to support adoption and implementation.

With ILPA’s support, Dr. Guyon Harris’ team has gathered useful information from families and providers that they have since put into practice.

 Award funding of up to $50,000 is available. Letters of intent are due Wednesday, July 31. Contact CTSI to get started!

 

ILPA is a program of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at the University of Pittsburgh.

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