Adapting to CONNECT: modifying a nursing home-based team-building intervention to improve hospital care team interactions, functioning, and implementation readiness

Virginia Wang, Joshua D'Adolf, Kasey Decosimo, Katina Robinson, Ashley Choate, Rebecca Bruening, Nina Sperber, Elizabeth Mahanna, Courtney H Van Houtven, Kelli D Allen, Cathleen Colón-Emeric, Teresa M Damush, Susan N Hastings, Virginia Wang, Joshua D'Adolf, Kasey Decosimo, Katina Robinson, Ashley Choate, Rebecca Bruening, Nina Sperber, Elizabeth Mahanna, Courtney H Van Houtven, Kelli D Allen, Cathleen Colón-Emeric, Teresa M Damush, Susan N Hastings

Abstract

Background: Clinical interventions often need to be adapted from their original design when they are applied to new settings. There is a growing literature describing frameworks and approaches to deploying and documenting adaptations of evidence-based practices in healthcare. Still, intervention modifications are often limited in detail and justification, which may prevent rigorous evaluation of interventions and intervention adaptation effectiveness in new contexts. We describe our approach in a case study, combining two complementary intervention adaptation frameworks to modify CONNECT for Quality, a provider-facing team building and communication intervention designed to facilitate implementation of a new clinical program.

Methods: This process of intervention adaptation involved the use of the Planned Adaptation Framework and the Framework for Reporting Adaptations and Modifications, for systematically identifying key drivers, core and non-core components of interventions for documenting planned and unplanned changes to intervention design.

Results: The CONNECT intervention's original context and setting is first described and then compared with its new application. This lays the groundwork for the intentional modifications to intervention design, which are developed before intervention delivery to participating providers. The unpredictable nature of implementation in real-world practice required unplanned adaptations, which were also considered and documented. Attendance and participation rates were examined and qualitative assessment of reported participant experience supported the feasibility and acceptability of adaptations of the original CONNECT intervention in a new clinical context.

Conclusion: This approach may serve as a useful guide for intervention implementation efforts applied in diverse clinical contexts and subsequent evaluations of intervention effectiveness.

Trial registration: The study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov ( NCT03300336 ) on September 28, 2017.

Keywords: Adaptation; Complexity science; Implementation; Intervention design; Mobility; Teams.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

© 2022. The Author(s).

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Conceptualizing intervention adaptations to new program context: The CONNECT for Quality intervention

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