From: Writing implementation research grant proposals: ten key ingredients
Proposal ingredient | Key question | Review criteria | Check (yes/no) |
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1. The care gap or quality gap | The proposal has clear evidence that a gap in quality exists? | Significance Impact | Â |
2. The evidence-based treatment to be implemented | Is the evidence for the program, treatment, or set of servicesto be implemented demonstrated? | Significance Innovation | Â |
3. Conceptual model and theoretical justification | The proposal delineates a clear conceptual framework/theory/model that informs the design and variables being tested? | Approach Innovation | Â |
4. Stakeholder priorities, engagement in change | Is there a clear engagement process of the stakeholders in place? | Significance Impact Approach Environment | Â |
5. Setting’s readiness to adopt new services/treatments/programs | Is there clear information that reflects the setting’s readiness,capacity, or appetite for change, specifically around adoptionof the proposed evidence-based treatment? | Impact Approach Environment |  |
6. Implementation strategy/process | Are the strategies to implement the intervention clearly defined,and justified conceptually? | Significance Impact Innovation | Â |
7. Team experience with the setting, treatment, implementation process | Does the proposal detail the team’s experience with the studysetting, the treatment whose implementation is being studied,and implementation processes? | Approach Investigator team |  |
8. Feasibility of proposed research design and methods | Does the methods section contain as much detail as possible,as well as lay out possible choice junctures and contingencies,should methods not work as planned? | Approach Investigator team | Â |
9. Measurement and analysis section | Does the proposal clarify the key constructs to be measured, corresponding to the overarching conceptual model or theory? | Approach Investigator team | Â |
Is a measurement plan clear for each construct? | |||
Does the analysis section demonstrate how relationshipsbetween constructs will be tested? | |||
10. Policy/funding environment; leverage or support for sustaining change | Does the proposal address how the implementation initiativealigns with policy trends? | Impact Significance | Â |