Purpose

Evidence-based program registers (EBPRs) are important tools for facilitating the use of evidence-based practices or programs (EBPs) by state statutory agencies responsible for behavioral healthcare, broadly defined as substance misuse, mental health, HIV/AIDS prevention, child welfare, and offender rehabilitation. There are currently no data on the purposes for which such state agencies reference EBPRs on their official websites.

Method

A webscraping method was used to identify and classify relevant “hits”, defined as a state behavioral health webpage with single or multiple references to a study EBPR. A total of 778 hits (unique combinations of webpage and register) were coded. Up to three codes were applied to each hit for the “reasons for the EBPR reference” (EBPR use) dimension, one code was applied to each hit for the “purpose of the EBPR reference” and “intended audience of the webpage containing the hit” dimensions, and up to two codes were applied to each hit for the "funding mentions” dimension.

Results

Three EBPRs out of 28 accounted for 73.6% of the hits. The most frequent reason for referencing EBPRs were as a resource for selecting EBPs or validating existing programs and practices. The references tended to appear in reports from the state, in training materials, or guidelines. The references tended to address broad groups of behavioral healthcare professionals. EBPRs were frequently referenced in the context of federal block grants or other federal funding.

Conclusions

Increasing state agencies’ awareness and use of the entire range of existing EBPRs may improve implementation of EBPs nationally.

中文翻译：

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州行为健康机构网站引用循证计划登记册

目的

循证计划登记册 (EBPR) 是促进负责行为保健的州法定机构使用循证实践或计划 (EBP) 的重要工具，行为保健广泛定义为药物滥用、心理健康、艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防、儿童福利和罪犯改造。目前没有关于这些国家机构在其官方网站上引用 EBPR 的目的的数据。

方法

使用网络抓取方法来识别相关“点击”并对其进行分类，“点击”被定义为具有对研究 EBPR 的单个或多个引用的州行为健康网页。总共 778 个点击（网页和注册的独特组合）被编码。对于“EBPR 参考的原因”（EBPR 使用）维度，每个匹配最多应用三个代码，对于“EBPR 参考的目的”和“包含该匹配的网页的目标受众”，每个匹配应用一个代码”维度，并且对于“资金提及”维度的每个点击最多应用两个代码。

结果

28 个 EBPR 中有 3 个占点击率的 73.6%。引用 EBPR 的最常见原因是作为选择 EBP 或验证现有计划和实践的资源。这些参考文献往往出现在国家报告、培训材料或指南中。这些参考文献往往针对广泛的行为医疗保健专业人员群体。EBPR 经常在联邦整笔拨款或其他联邦资金中被提及。

结论

提高国家机构对整个现有 EBPR 范围的认识和使用可能会改善 EBP 在全国的实施。