Table 2.
Research questions to be addressed in the area of computer technology-based interventions.
| RE-AIM dimensions |
Research questions | Implications |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | Who can be reached with CBIs? Who cannot? | These research questions will help researchers understand the most appropriate audiences for CBIs, as well as the best ways to recruit and retain participants. |
| What proportion of target populations can be reached? | ||
| For whom are CBIs most appropriate? | ||
| For whom are they least appropriate? | ||
| How can samples be recruited and retained offline and online? | ||
| What factors predict engagement with CBIs? | ||
| Efficacy | What types of CBIs are most efficacious with what populations? | These research questions will help researchers understand the kinds of effects that CBIs are capable of, as well as what their role in larger HIV prevention efforts can and should be. |
| What features of CBIs make them more or less efficacious? | ||
| What do assessments of reach, adoption, implementation, and maintenance in efficacy trials show? | ||
| How can interactive technologies be best applied for effective skills training? | ||
| How can newer technologies (e.g., mobile devices and social media websites) be applied and evaluated for efficacy in HIV prevention? | ||
| In what cases are CBIs best used as standalone interventions vs. supplements to human-delivered or media-based interventions? | ||
| Adoption | How can CBIs be developed to allow for flexibility in adoption? | These research questions will help researchers understand how adoption of CBIs by various organizations can be achieved, including from both programmatic and organizational standpoints. |
| What are practitioners, clinicians, and community partners’ views about CBIs? | ||
| In what settings will the above stakeholders adopt CBIs? | ||
| What are the barriers and facilitators to adoption of CBIs in various settings? | ||
| Implementation | How might CBIs best be packaged for easy implementation in clinical and community settings? | These research questions will help researchers understand how the implementation of CBIs in practice settings would unfold, including who would oversee such interventions as well as how technical support would be provided. |
| How would CBIs be implemented and overseen in practice? By whom? | ||
| How might technical issues with CBIs best be handled? | ||
| Maintenance | Once implemented, how could the use of CBIs over time be best ensured? | These research questions will help researchers understand how the use of CBIs could be maintained over the long term. |
| What kind of technical and other support would be necessary to support the maintenance of a CBI? | ||
| What factors predict the institutionalization of a CBI? |