Notes From the Field: Diverse Partner Perspectives Improve the Usability and Equity Focus of Implementation Guides
In: Ethnicity & disease: an international journal on population differences in health and disease patterns, Band DECIPHeR, Heft Special Issue, S. 132-134
ISSN: 1945-0826
Context
School-based asthma programs (SBAPs) have improved health and educational disparities among youth with asthma.
Design
To support scaling out effective SBAPs, our school partners identified a need for online implementation guides that are "always available," to meet the needs of school nurses' demanding schedules. School nurses play a key role in the adoption and implementation of SBAPs, so it is important to ensure the implementation guide would be highly usable and acceptable to them.
Objective
Accordingly, our research team collaborated with human-centered design experts to identify the "user journeys" of school nurses and co-created our online implementation guide as a public-facing website with input from local and national school nurse partners.
Main Results
In this perspectives article, our school nurse implementation partners and human-centered design experts reflect on challenges overcome in this process of developing a tailored implementation guide to school nurses and offer lessons from the field to others seeking to co-create implementation guides with community partners.