Citation

Shapiro CJ, Prinz RJ, Sanders MR. Child Maltreat. 2012; 17(1): 86-95.

Affiliation

Parenting and Family Research Center, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077559511424774

PMID

22089827

Abstract

The prevention of child maltreatment via parenting interventions requires implementation on a broad scale, which is facilitated by drawing on a multidisciplinary array of service workers located in multiple settings. This underscores the importance of understanding factors that impact worker implementation of evidenced-based parenting and family support interventions. This study involved structured interviews with 174 service providers from several disciplines who had been trained previously in the delivery of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program. These follow-up interviews, conducted an average of about 2 years after professional in-service training, provided the basis for examining predictors of sustained program use. Predictors examined included facilitators and barriers to program use, as well as organizational and provider-level characteristics such as attitudes toward evidence-based interventions. Highlighting the importance of a systems-contextual perspective on implementation, several provider and organization-level characteristics significantly predicted program use including provider self-confidence after training, fit of program with ongoing duties, availability of posttraining support, and perceived benefit of intervention for children and families. Implications for prevention and implementation science are discussed in view of the challenges inherent in the field of child maltreatment.

Language: en