BASIS-T Efficacy Trial

Study Summary

For the approximately one in five children with social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) challenges, accessible evidence-based prevention practices (EBPPs) are critical. In the United States, schools are the primary service setting for children's SEB service delivery but EBPPs are rarely adopted or implemented by educators (e.g., teachers) with sufficient fidelity to see effects. Given that individual behavior change is ultimately required for successful implementation, focusing on individual-level processes holds promise as a parsimonious approach to enhance adoption. Beliefs and Attitudes for Successful Implementation in Schools for Teachers (BASIS-T) is a pragmatic, multifaceted pre-implementation strategy targeting volitional and motivational mechanisms of educators' behavior change to enhance implementation and student SEB outcomes. This study protocol describes a hybrid type 3 effectiveness-implementation trial designed to evaluate the main effects, mediators, and moderators of the BASIS-T implementation strategy in the context of Positive Greetings at the Door (PGD), a universal school-based EBPP previously demonstrated to reduce student disruptive behavior and increase academic engagement.

Primary Outcome

Evidence-Based Attitudes Scale - a 15-item tool that captures attitudes toward evidence-based practices. The scale includes internally consistent scores including total score and subscale scores: (1) appeal of EBP, (2) openness to new practices, (3) likelihood of adopting an evidence-based practice, and (4) perceived divergence between current and evidence-based practices. Minimum Score 0, Maximum Score 4. Higher Scores mean better outcome.

Conditions Studied

Interventions

• BEHAVIORAL BASIS-T
• BEHAVIORAL Attention Control (ACC)

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