Table 1.
Dimension | Definition | Sample Questions |
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Reach | The proportion of individuals willing to participate in tobacco screening and intervention and the parents that they would be willing to target | “How comfortable do you feel you are at screening and/or counseling parents to quit smoking?” |
“Is there a particular subset of smokers that you feel should take priority in getting smoking screening and/or cessation counseling?” | ||
Effectiveness | The demonstration of the influence of an intervention on important outcomes, including how this affects compliance with the intervention | “What do you think would be measures of success in routine, universal tobacco screening?” |
“How important is it to show efficacy and how would the assessment of efficacy affect the amount of screening and counseling that you do?” | ||
Adoption | The proportion and type of staff who would be willing to adopt the intervention steps and perceived barriers and solutions to adoption | “Who should administer each intervention component?” |
“What would the barriers be to conducting routine screening and counseling?” | ||
“How would screening and counseling affect patient flow, stress levels, work load, etc?” | ||
“What training and electronic support are needed?” | ||
Implementation | The amount of time, technical support, and money necessary to make the intervention part of routine practice. | “What type of technical support would be required to make screening and counseling part of routine practice in the ED1?” |
Maintenance | The extent of which participants will make and maintain this screening and counseling behavior change and the sustainability of the intervention in the ED setting. | “What kind of institutional support would be needed to maintain this intervention in the ED setting?” |
“Who would be responsible for monitoring this?” | ||
“What type and timing of training refreshers would be necessary?” | ||
“What would motivate practitioners to keep this part of routine practice?” |
ED = Emergency Department