Determinants of using children’s mental health research in policymaking: variation by type of research use and phase of policy process

Table 2 Frequency of using children’s mental health research in policy decision-making, State Agency Officials, Winter 2019-2020, N = 224

	N	Mean	SD	%^a
Overall frequency of children’s MH research use (range = 12-60)	171	44.26	8.23
Composite frequency of different types of research use
Conceptual	178	12.11	2.32
Instrumental	181	12.01	2.26
Tactical	184	12.07	2.40
Imposed	176	8.02	3.57
Composite frequency of research use during different phases of the policy process
Agenda	181	14.84	2.86
Development	178	14.70	3.17
Implementation	182	14.49	3.34
Frequency of different types of child MH research use across phases of the policy process
Conceptual, agenda	191	4.03	0.91	75.4
Conceptual, development	187	4.01	0.98	74.9
Conceptual, implementation	192	3.94	0.98	74.5
Instrumental, agenda	191	4.04	0.88	74.9
Instrumental, development	188	3.96	0.89	76.6
Instrumental, implementation	192	3.93	0.93	74.5
Tactical, agenda	193	4.10	0.84	76.7
Tactical, development	190	3.99	0.98	73.2
Tactical, implementation	193	3.92	1.01	69.9
Imposed, agenda	186	2.66	1.25	24.7
Imposed, development	179	2.67	1.23	25.7
Imposed, implementation	183	2.70	1.27	26.2

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