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Steering Committee: May 27, 2020

Updated: Sep 1, 2022

ACTION ITEMS:


  • Share interview questions with study investigators to consider which NAV roles to interview – Melanie

  • Follow-up re: HR/analysts for CFIR qualitative interviews – Dielle/Melanie

  • Review Core Components documents and provide feedback – Janet/Investigators


AGENDA ITEMS:

Implementation - ECHO

  • First summer session will start on Tuesday June 2nd

  • ECHOs will continue biweekly on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month

    • Sites have been notified and calendar invites have been sent out

    • These dates were selected so they don’t interfere with post-training calls

  • We will communicate with PSSP, listen to feedback and adapt as needed as issues come up

  • Format: more informal, short didactic with focus on Q&A to enhance collaboration between sites

  • We are adapting the ECHO format, which is flexible, so that we can discuss implementation challenges that may not be directly about a specific case

  • Abanti and Dayna sent out an overview of the plans/purpose of the biweekly ECHOs last week

  • This week, they sent out a call for sites to start thinking about agenda items, questions, barriers (implementation or clinical).

  • Organizing the curriculum, with 6 sessions and 6 sites – have asked sites which dates work best for them with deadline by this Friday

  • Sites have been receptive to the summer ECHOs, Durham may have some scheduling issues

  • Submitted Accreditation application - request put in for expedited application, awaiting feedback 

Implementation/Onboarding/Training CFIR Presentation: “Exploring implementation barriers and facilitators associated with effective implementation of the NAVIGATE model for treatment of early episode psychosis" – Dr. Melanie Barwick



  • See attached slides for reference

  • This sub-study aims to identify barriers and facilitators to NAVIGATE model success across 6 settings

  • Purpose: identify factors to consider prior to/throughout implementation to improve the process

  • The factors that are more strongly associated with implementation success would be considered more strongly when starting implementation

  • The framework systemically examines contextual factors in 5 domains (see slides)

  • These are all the external/non-controllable factors that can be supportive or get in the way

  • The domains have to do with factors related to the intervention, outer setting, inner setting, staff characteristics, and implementation process

  • Two main methodologies: questionnaires and interviews – for this study we are doing this retrospectively

  • The current plan is two identify 2-3 staff from each site who may be the most familiar with NAVIGATE implementation and interview them at the end of active implementation phase (~1 year)

  • For the first 3 sites, this would occur this summer (latter 3 sites would be next summer)

  • Originally considered interviewing the directors and IRT clinicians who are likely most familiar, but we discussed this and decided to have investigators review the interview questions and create an order of roles to prioritize and possibly capture more perspectives

  • Staffing requirements: would hire 2 analysts (1 conducts interview while other takes notes

  • Have developed an efficient, rapid coding system for during the interview

  • Budget: the budget would come in under $9000. This was in the original proposal that was funded.

  • Investigators present at the meeting approved this as it is extremely important work and part of the primary outcome measure of the study

  • Next steps would be to hire the analysts on casual contract, they would submit hours

  • Discussion/Feedback: qualitative analysis will capture the dynamics of the workforce/staffing changes and challenges. If these factors are strongly associated with implementation success, the data will show it. : How do you take into account staff changes at sites?.


Core Components Update Dr. Janet Durbin



  • See attached slides and documents for reference

  • To assess how we implement NAVIGATE we have developed a Core Components document

  • Core Components = the essential elements that need to be delivered as part of NAVIGATE

  • The purpose of doing this is so that everybody involved is clear on what they are implementing

  • Outcome measures: Fidelity to EPI Model (does implementing NAVIGATE improve Fidelity to EPI standards?)

  • Development of the Core Components involved reviewing NAVIGATE manuals, published papers, input from Implementation Specialists, Sarah and George.

  • This information was used to create a Practice Profile template, and the Core Components were entered here

  • Next steps: gather feedback from U.S. trainers and the team

  • Have we clearly articulated the core components? Is there anything missing?

  • Feedback: it would also be helpful to get feedback from site leads


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