Effectiveness and Implementation of the PAVING the Path to Wellness Lifestyle Medicine program
Grantee: PAVING the Path to Wellness
Year Funded: 2024
Amount: $75,988
Report Status: Report not posted
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Project Summary: Lifestyle medicine has the potential to address the chronic disease epidemic, but a lack of dissemination and implementation (D&I) research has prevented its widespread adoption into clinical and community settings. This project will examine the effectiveness and implementation of the PAVING the Path to Wellness lifestyle medicine program to both improve program delivery and lay foundational knowledge to advance clinical and public health practice in the lifestyle medicine space.
Through this hybrid effectiveness-implementation design, we will:
1) Assess the impact of the PAVING program on the lifestyle medicine health behaviors using a validated pre/post- survey with at least 15 cohorts of 6-20 PAVING participants. We anticipate that the PAVING program will improve health behaviors.
2) Identify the barriers and facilitators to the successful implementation and growth of the program through semi-structured qualitative interviews with PAVING leaders and participants. Implementation constructs including program acceptability, adaptability, process, and sustainability will be assessed. We anticipate that the interviews will elicit critical insights to support program implementation.
The project will rigorously evaluate the PAVING the Path to Wellness program and promote the scaling of lifestyle medicine by providing a blueprint for other programs to better translate from research to practice.
