Implementation as Usual clinical trials

ImpleMentAll - Towards Evidence-based Tailored Implementation Strategies for eHealth

The ImpleMentAll (IMA) project aims to examine the effectiveness of tailored implementation compared to usual implementation of Internet-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (iCBT) for patients suffering from common mental disorders in routine practice. Common mental health disorders account for an alarming proportion of the global burden of disease. Being regarded as an evidence-based psychotherapeutic eHealth intervention, Internet- based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (iCBT), has the potential to answer to this societal challenge by providing an efficacious and efficient treatment from which more people can benefit. ImpleMentAll will develop, apply, and evaluate tailored implementation strategies in the context of on-going eHealth implementation initiatives in the EU and beyond. The objectives are: 1. To develop a generic Integrated Theory-based Framework for Intervention Tailoring Strategies (the ItFits-toolkit) for data-driven tailored implementation of evidence-based eHealth services. 2. To demonstrate the impact of the ItFits toolkit on the implementation of eHealth for common mental disorders. 3. To disseminate the validated toolkit in various healthcare contexts across Europe. Following a stepped-wedge trial design, the ItFits-toolkit will be introduced in twelve implementation sites in nine countries, and evaluated for its effectiveness in obtaining implementation success. An in-depth process evaluation using a realist evaluation methodology will provide information about the particularities of tailored implementation and the application of the ItFits-toolkit in real implementation work. The resulting ItFits-toolkit will enable data driven evaluation of eHealth implementation projects and its methods, materials, and strategies will provide concrete guidance on tuning implementation interventions to local determinant of practice across a variety of health care systems.