TY - JOUR AU - Williams, Virginia AU - Oades, Lindsay G. AU - Deane, Frank P. AU - Crowe, Trevor P. AU - Ciarrochi, Joseph AU - Andresen, Retta PY - 2013 DA - 2013/07/02 TI - Improving implementation of evidence-based practice in mental health service delivery: protocol for a cluster randomised quasi-experimental investigation of staff-focused values interventions JO - Implementation Science SP - 75 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - There is growing acceptance that optimal service provision for individuals with severe and recurrent mental illness requires a complementary focus on medical recovery (i.e., symptom management and general functioning) and personal recovery (i.e., having a ‘life worth living’). Despite significant research attention and policy-level support, the translation of this vision of healthcare into changed workplace practice continues to elude. Over the past decade, evidence-based training interventions that seek to enhance the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of staff working in the mental health field have been implemented as a primary redress strategy. However, a large body of multi-disciplinary research indicates disappointing rates of training transfer. There is an absence of empirical research that investigates the importance of worker-motivation in the uptake of desired workplace change initiatives. ‘Autonomy’ is acknowledged as important to human effectiveness and as a correlate of workplace variables like productivity, and wellbeing. To our knowledge, there have been no studies that investigate purposeful and structured use of values-based interventions to facilitate increased autonomy as a means of promoting enhanced implementation of workplace change. SN - 1748-5908 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-8-75 DO - 10.1186/1748-5908-8-75 ID - Williams2013 ER -