RE-AIM Framework Used in PTSD Study

Implementation science uses a variety of theoretical frameworks to help design interventions. The Reach Effectiveness Adoption Implementation Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework encourages program planners  to pay attention to the various elements of a program in order to sustain the implementation of an effective intervention. RE-AIM begins by helping researchers define their target population. This framework then looks at how an intervention can impact a specific outcome. To translate research into action, the intervention must be adopted by those initiating it. From there, this model examines the fidelity of the implementation to the intervention’s protocol. The last step of the model is to maintain the intervention’s impact. Recently, this framework has been used to integrate trial results into a routine trauma center practice. The goal of the “trauma survivors’ outcomes and support (TSOS) effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial” is to test the delivery of a screening and intervention for PTSD across 24 US level 1 trauma sites. Click here to read more about implementation science and the RE-AIM framework used in this study.

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