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8.25-9.40: SYMPOSIUM: Sustaining the implementation of nutrition and physical activity interventions in early care and school settings.

Chair: Dr. Nicole Nathan

Discussant: Dr Femke van Nassau

Presentations:

Mr. Adam Shoesmith - ‘What factors influence the sustainment of nutrition and physical activity interventions in schools and childcare services: findings from a systematic review’

Dr. Taren Swindle - ‘Predictors of Sustainment of Two Distinct Nutrition and Physical Activity Programs in Early Care and Education’

Dr. Nicole Nathan - ‘Multi-strategy intervention increases school implementation of a mandatory physical activity policy but does it sustain it?: outcomes of a cluster randomised controlled trial’

12.05-13.20: SIG MEETING: Implementation and scalability

16.20-17.35: SYMPOSIUM: Scalable approaches to supporting workers to stand up, sit less and move more at work

Chair and discussant: Prof. Paul Estabrooks

Presentations:

Prof. Genevieve Healy - ‘Taking a Stand for Employee Wellness: The Science of Helping Employees Move More for Better Health’

Dr. Matthew Buman - ‘Stand & Move at Work II: A group randomized hybrid effectiveness-implementation of a work-based intervention to reduce sitting and increase light-intensity physical activity’

Dr. Ana Goode - ‘Uptake and effectiveness of the BeUpstanding program supporting workers to stand up, sit less and move more: preliminary findings from a national implementation trial’

12.05-13.20: Latest evidence in implementation and scalability

Presentations:

Dr. Rebecca Hagedorn-Hatfield - ‘Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Food Insecurity Initiatives on College Campuses’

Mr. Cédric Middel - ‘Reflexively Monitoring Healthy Food-Store Interventions: the SUPREME NUDGE Trial’

Ms. Alison Brown - ‘From pilot trial to state-wide scale-up: The development of an m-health lunchbox intervention, SWAP IT’

Dr. Christina Kasprzak - ‘Evaluation of the Implementation of a Mobile Market Model, the Veggie Van model, using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)’

Mr. Sam Lapusniak - ‘Physical Activity Promotion in Children Using a Novel Smartphone Game: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial’

Prof. Clare Collins - ‘Efficacy of web-based personalised feedback on dietary patterns in young Australian adults: the Advice, Ideas and Motivation for My Eating (Aim4Me) randomised controlled trial'

15.10-16.40: Optimizing D&I Research

Presentations:

Ms. Lauren Von Klinggraeff - ‘Are statistically significant studies better?’

Dr. Michael Beets - ‘Limited use of guidelines, checklists, recommendations, or frameworks for pilot and feasibility studies of behavioral interventions – implications for the field: A Comprehensive Scoping-Bibliometric Review’

Dr. Christopher Pfledderer - ‘Feasibility indicators in behavioral intervention pilot/feasibility studies: A historical scoping review’

Dr. Gwenndolyn Porter - ‘Combining Effectiveness, Reach, and Cost of a Scalable, Digitally-Delivered Weight Loss Program for Rural Primary Care’

Dr. Kelly Morgan - ‘From a research trial to routine practice: a qualitative study exploring perceptions and experiences of referral to the National Exercise Referral Scheme (NERS) in Wales’

Prof. Paul Estabrooks - ‘Cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of the Stand & Move at Work intervention to improve sedentary behavior at work’

8.30-9.45: Implementation and dissemination science in school-based settings

Presentations:

Mr. Michel Smit - ‘The long-term effects of primary school-based obesity prevention interventions in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis’

Dr. Ru-Jye Chuang - ‘Using process evaluation and booster strategies for implementation success of school-based nutrition education and physical activity programs: The Brighter Bites Approach’

Ms Cassandra Lane - ‘The optimisation of PACE: improving schools' implementation of a physical activity policy at scale’

Ms Cassandra Lane - ‘Which implementation strategies are essential for supporting schools' compliance with a physical activity policy? A mixed methods process evaluation’

12.10-13.35: Evaluating process in practice and policy

Dr. Natalicio Serrano - ‘Comparing the policy and practice impacts of highly cited and high altmetric publications in physical activity research’

Ms. Ana Mitchell - ‘Campus Food Pantry Implementation: Does Nutrient Dose Promote Nutrition Security?’

Ms. Jennifer Aiyer - ‘Healthcare provider perceptions within a regional charity food prescription program implementation partnership’

Dr. Jack Benton - ‘How and why was a digital diabetes self-management intervention changed during national roll-out? A mixed-methods study’

Ms. Amber Guest - ‘The Structured Health Intervention for Truckers (SHIFT) cluster randomised controlled trial: a mixed methods process evaluation’

Ms. Alma Ruelas Yanes - ‘Factors affecting the dropout rate of intensive lifestyle interventions for weight loss’

Barnes C, Sutherland R, Jones J, Brown A, Stacey F, Wolfenden L. Maximising the adoption of a school-based m-Health intervention to improve the nutritional quality of student lunchboxes to ensure population-level impact. Health Promot J Austr. 2022,Feb. doi: 10.1002/hpja.579.

Beets MW, von Klinggraeff L, Weaver RG. et al. Small studies, big decisions: the role of pilot/feasibility studies in incremental science and premature scale-up of behavioral interventions. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2021, 7, 173. doi:10.1186/s40814-021-00909-w

Braga-Pontes C, Simoes-Dias S, Lages M, Guarino MP, Graca P. Nutrition education strategies to promote vegetable consumptions n prescholl children: the Veggies4myHeart project. Public Health Nutrition. 2022, 25(4). doi: 10.1017/S1368980021004456

Brownson RC, Shelton R, Geng E, Glasgow R. Revisiting conepts of evidence in implementation science. Implementation science. 2022, 17:36. doi: 10.1186/s13012-022-01201-y

Lane C, Naylor PJ, Shoesmith A. et al. Identifying essential implementation strategies: a mixed methods process evaluation of a multi-strategy policy implementation intervention for schools. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2022, 19, 44. doi: 10.1186/s12966-022-01281-5

Lum M, Wolfenden L, Jones J, Grady A, Christian H, Reilly K, Yoong SL. Interventions to Improve Child Physical Activity in the Early Childhood Education and Care Setting: An Umbrella Review. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 2022, 19(4), 1963. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19041963 

May, C.R., Albers, B., Bracher, M. et al. Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: a normalisation process theory coding manual for qualitative research and instrument development. Implementation Sci 17, 19 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-022-01191-x

Sacca, L., Shegog, R., Hernandez, B. et al. Barriers, frameworks, and mitigating strategies influencing the dissemination and implementation of health promotion interventions in indigenous communities: a scoping review. Implementation Sci 17, 18 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-022-01190-y

Sutherland R, Ying Ooi J, Finch M, Yoong SL, Nathan N, Wrigley J, et al. A cluster randomised controlled trial of a secondary school intervention to reduce intake of sugar-sweetened beverages: Mid-intervention impact of switchURsip environmental strategies. Health Promot J Austr. 2022, 33: 176-186. doi: 10.1002/hpja.469

Wolfenden L, Mooney K, Gonzalez S, Hall A, Hodder R, Nathan N, et al. Increased use of knowledge translation strategies is associated with greater research impact on public health policy and practice: an analysis of trials of nutrition, physical activity, sexual health, tobacco, alcohol and substance use interventions. Health Res. Policy Syst. 2022, 20. doi: 10.1186/s12961-022-00817-2.

Watch our recent webinar - Why are some interventions successfully scaled over others? Combining a realist perspective and systems analysis to identify key mechanisms of scaling up. Click here to watch.

NCOIS is excited to host 3 amazing presenters; Niki Kajons (Central Coast Local Health District), Courtney Barnes (NCOIS & Hunter New England Local Health District) and Lise Lafferty (Kirby Institute, University of NSW) to hear about their experience of scaling up interventions.

Implementation Science Health Conference Australia - Sydney Health Partners are providing access to a range of presentations from the ISHCA conference held last November.

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Lauren von Klinggraeff, MPH (she/her)

As a developing researcher, I have worked in multiple areas of scientific research traversing the translational pipeline. My undergraduate work in general biology provided strong foundational knowledge of the basic sciences. My masters-level work developed applied solutions in community health; I worked with health departments executing county-wide evaluations and assisted with research on school-based physical activity interventions. When I transitioned into doctoral work under my academic advisor Dr. Michael Beets, I began to turn my attention to translational science as a topic area. I recognized that the work earlier in my career struggled to adapt to widespread use. Out of a desire to understand why health interventions don’t always work at-scale, I chose to focus on external or “generalizability biases” in health interventions for my doctoral research.

I consider research methodology my main research interest - with the long-term aim of improving population health by encouraging rigorous research. That includes identifying the causes/solutions for the inclusion of bias in early-stage studies of behavioral health interventions to minimize “voltage drop” or “scale up penalty”. It also includes being involved in projects which aim to improve objective, free-living measures of sleep and physical activity to minimize measurement error and maximize the generalizability of the data collected during research trials. Other projects involve looking at funding and publication patterns to identify ways health research can be improved. I love the variety, and I love the conversations I get to have with other researchers and methodologists.

As an ECR in I&S research, it can be tricky to communicate my work and what I do. The default career path for many researchers is to pick a population (e.g., children, older adults) and pick a health outcome (e.g., nutrition, cancer) – the combination becomes your research focus. I&S doesn’t fit that formula because it’s ‘disease agnostic’ and can be useful in any population. To overcome this barrier, I think as an I&S researcher I put in extra effort to help people understand the relevance and importance of my work. I also try to be adept with my vocabulary – I have found that most health researchers do think about I&S topics, but they might not use typical I&S vocabulary.

von Klinggraeff, L., Dugger, R., Okely, A. D., Lubans, D., Jago, R., Burkart, S., Weaver, R. G., Armstrong, B., Pfledderer, C. D., & Beets, M. W. (2022). Early-stage studies to larger-scale trials: investigators' perspectives on scaling-up childhood obesity interventions. Pilot and feasibility studies, 8(1), 31. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-00991-8

Beets, M.W., von Klinggraeff, L., Weaver, R.G. et al. Small studies, big decisions: the role of pilot/feasibility studies in incremental science and premature scale-up of behavioral interventions. Pilot Feasibility Stud 7, 173 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-021-00909-w