Assuring Healthy Caregivers, A Public Health Approach to Translating Research into Practice: The RE-AIM Framework

摘要

In spring 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kimberly-Clark Corporation forged a new partnership to promote the health and well-being of caregivers. As part of this effort, we have explored the challenges inherent in translating research into practice and implementing evidence-based caregiver interventions in real-world settings. This monograph introduces a useful tool for addressing those challenges: the RE-AIM Framework. Disciplined and continuous application of this framework can help practitioners and researchers anticipate pertinent issues as they engage in planning, conducting, or evaluating caregiver intervention programs and policies. We begin by examining caregiving as a public health priority of national concern. We then explore why moving research on caregiver interventions into widespread community practice is critical and of utmost urgency. Next, the monograph focuses on the RE-AIM Framework, describing in detail each of its five core elements: Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance. Here we suggest key questions and methods to help program developers, planners, and evaluators use the framework in their work on caregiving.