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

Table 4 Adjusted associations between determinants of using children’s mental health research and composite frequency of different types of research use, State Health Agency Officials, Winter 2019-2020, N = 224

	Model 1: Conceptual research use					Model 2: Instrumental research use					Model 3: Tactical research use					Model 4: Imposed research use
	β	p	B	B Lower 95% CI	B Upper 95% CI	β	p	B	B Lower 95% CI	B Upper 95% CI	β	p	B	B Lower 95% CI	B Upper 95% CI	β	p	B	B Lower 95% CI	B Upper 95% CI
State	0.08	0.30	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.11	0.15	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.13	0.08	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.13	0.10	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
Highest level of education	0.03	0.67	0.01	-0.02	0.03	0.03	0.68	0.01	-0.02	0.03	0.14	0.07	0.02	<0.001	0.05	−0.13	0.10	−0.05	−0.10	0.01
Years working at agency	0.16*	0.04	0.01	< 0.01	0.01	0.04	0.61	< 0.001	−0.01	0.01	0.10	0.20	0.001	0.001	0.01	0.04	0.63	0.01	−0.01	0.02
Agency leadership for research use	0.12	0.12	0.09	-0.02	0.21	0.15	0.06	0.11	−0.01	0.23	0.09	0.25	0.07	−0.05	0.20	0.31**	< 0.001	0.54	0.27	0.82
Skills for research use	0.18*	0.02	0.16	0.02	0.29	0.09	0.28	0.08	−0.06	0.21	0.17*	0.04	0.15	0.01	0.30	-0.04	0.58	-0.09	−0.41	0.23
Agency barriers to research use	−0.07	0.43	−0.05	−0.17	0.07	−0.08	0.34	−0.06	−0.18	0.06	−0.03	0.76	−0.02	−0.15	0.11	−0.07	0.43	-0.12	−0.41	0.18
Research dissemination barriers	−0.22**	0.01	−0.15	−0.27	−0.03	−0.22**	0.01	−0.15	−0.28	−0.03	−0.14	0.12	−0.10	−0.23	0.03	−0.06	0.48	−0.10	−0.40	0.19
Model fit statistics
Adjusted R²	0.17					0.11					0.09					0.122
F	5.50					3.79					3.27					4.05
F (Sig)	< 0.001					0.001					0.003					< 0.001

*p ≤ 0.05
**p ≤ 0.013 (Bonferroni corrected p value threshold for four model comparisons in the table)

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