Dissemination and Implementation Affinity Network Projects

This hybrid-effectiveness implementation (type 1) project (R01HL162799) will test whether an evidence-based sleep health coaching program, informed by cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTi), can improve sleep disturbances and improve agency-level implementation. The long-term goal of this research is to provide critical knowledge that facilitates the widespread implementation, dissemination, and sustained utilization of sleep health intervention to promote continuous, sufficient sleep and ultimately mitigate cardiovascular disease risk.

The purpose of this trial is to identify effective goal setting techniques to enhance psychosocial processes of self-regulation for the successful promotion of physical activity and adherence to national physical activity guidelines among midlife adults, with the long-term goal of reducing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

This project explores systems-level solutions to untreated hearing loss in adult Arizonans with limited income. The  project addresses two critical elements of a healthy community, health care access and social cohesion, by exploring solutions to three systems-level problems affecting hearing health care. 

Through stakeholder interviews, this study examined the organizational barriers and facilitators to identifying and addressing unmet social needs (e.g., housing instability, food insecurity, utility insecurity, transportation, etc.) among their clients at several community-based organizations providing chronic disease/diabetes self-management education workshops in marginalized populations

Award T29HP46674‐01‐00

PI: Mindy McEntee; 9/15/22 – 9/14/25.

Current community partners: Creighton Community Foundation, Terros, Mercy Care, Advance Community, Unlimited Potential, Valley of the Sun YMCA, and Phoenix Indian Health Services.

This new, high-impact training program recruits, educates, and trains community health workers (CHWs) by providing them with skill sets needed to work in medically underserved communities to strengthen the public health workforce, reduce health disparities, and promote health equity. This two part program utilizes ASU’s Learning Enterprise ecosystem to deliver curriculum to equip learners with a solid foundation of core competencies before matching them with community partners to receive mentored, on-the-job training and work experience through internships or apprenticeships in preparation for CHW certification. 
 

PI: Karey O’Hara

This project combines prior research and new input from family court judges, administrators, and service providers, and high-conflict parents to design and pilot test a contextually appropriate, scalable intervention to reduce post-separation/divorce interparental conflict.

(MPI: Matthew Buman, Arizona State University; Mark Pereira, University of Minnesota)

This hybrid effectiveness-implementation (type 2) trial (R01CA250527) will test the effectiveness of an evidence-based intervention to reduce sitting and increase light--intensity physical activity, called Stand and Move at Work (SMW), for reducing sedentary time in the workplace, and test an implementation strategy (i.e., expert facilitation) for improving implementation fidelity. 
 

PI: Sarah Lindstrom Johnson, Arizona State University

This project is evaluating a school-wide multi-tiered implementation strategy to support the implementation of an evidence-based parenting strategy, Family Check-up, in schools. The goal of the implementation strategy is increasing family-school engagement as a mechanism to support acceptance of the intervention.