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RE-AIM Guidelines

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Evaluation of potential public health impact; Implementation science; Internal and external validity issues; Translational research

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RE-AIM is a planning and evaluation framework that addresses the five dimensions of reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance (Glasgow et al. 1999). Interventions are defined broadly as community programs, clinical practices, environmental changes, and policy approaches. Reach is an individual-level measure and defined as the number, percent, and representativeness of participants, and in some cases, ongoing reach such as the dose or receipt of intervention components (c.f. Harden et al. 2014). Efficacy or effectiveness is defined as the individual-level change in the primary outcome, impact on quality of life, and assessment of potential negative outcomes. Adoption is a setting-level indicator and defined as the number, percent, and representativeness of settings and delivery personnel who agree to deliver an...

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  1. Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Paul Estabrooks, Samantha M. Harden & Kacie Allen Blackman

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Estabrooks, P., Harden, S.M., Blackman, K.A. (2019). RE-AIM Guidelines. In: Gellman, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_614-2

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