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IMPLEMENTATION QUALITY RESEARCH OF PREVENTION PROGRAMS IN CROATIA

This paper presented research focused on implementation quality of the cohort of 24 mental health and preventive interventions. Study was conducted within the collaboration of University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences and the Region of Istria, Department of Health and Social Services and is the first study of implementation in Croatia. Presented study was a part of the wider project “Preffi: Quality assurance in the Region of Istria”. Main aim of the study was to monitor overall level and variability of implementation quality in programs that represent community interventions financed though the public funds. Three different measures of implementation quality were constructed, including items covering factors which affect the implementation quality i.e. implementation drivers (attitudes towards the intervention, training and knowledge, support for implementer, monitoring system, implementer’s skill, program standardization) and different aspects of implementation quality (fidelity, dosage, participants’ responsiveness, quality, perception of program impact). Conceptual model of implementation will be presented, together with implementation quality measures proven valid and reliable. Paper will offer contributions for implementation research field in general, especially regarding the community-based interventions that still have to be researched.

prevention science; implementation quality; intervention quality; community prevention

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