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

Table 5 Adjusted associations between determinants of using children’s mental health research and composite frequency of research use across different phases of policy process, State Health Agency Officials, Winter 2019-2020, N = 224

	Model 1: Agenda phase research use					Model 2: Development phase research use					Model 3: Implementation phase 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 Upper 95% CI	B Lower 95% CI
State	0.17*	0.02	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.10	0.21	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.08	0.28	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
Highest level of education	0.03	0.71	0.001	-0.02	0.03	0.06	0.44	0.01	-0.02	0.04	0.02	0.84	< 0.001	-0.02	0.03
Years working at agency	0.09	0.24	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.01	−0.01	0.89	< 0.001	-0.01	0.01	0.10	0.22	0.01	0.00	0.01
Agency leadership for research use	0.12	0.13	0.08	−0.02	0.19	0.28**	< 0.001	0.24	0.10	0.38	0.21**	0.01	0.18	0.04	0.32
Skills for research use	0.16*	0.05	0.13	0.00	0.25	0.04	0.64	0.04	−0.13	0.20	0.10	0.20	0.10	−0.06	0.26
Agency barriers to research use	−0.12	0.18	−0.08	−0.19	0.04	−0.04	0.67	−0.03	−0.18	0.12	0.01	0.91	0.01	−0.14	0.15
Research dissemination barriers	−0.20*	0.03	−0.13	−0.24	−0.02	−0.18*	0.05	−0.15	−0.30	0.00	−0.24**	0.01	−0.20	−0.35	−0.05
Model fit statistics
Adjusted R²	0.16					0.11					0.13
F	5.12					3.71					4.40
F (Sig)	< 0.001					0.001					< 0.001

*p ≤ 0.05
**p ≤ 0.016 (Bonferroni corrected p value threshold for three model comparisons in the table)

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