How the Intervention Mapping Step 5 tasks were applied when planning the implementation of FootyFirst
| Intervention Mapping Step 5 Task | Purpose | Application and key questions in the FootyFirst implementation planning project | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Task 1 | Identify potential FootyFirst adopters and implementers | To identify individuals and organisations that would be involved in, or would influence, FootyFirst adoption and implementation by community-AF coaches within the targeted league | Key question: “Who will decide to use FootyFirst and who will actually deliver FootyFirst to the players?” The ecological context (eg, team, club, league) in which FootyFirst was to be adopted and implemented was considered |
| Task 2 | Establish a FootyFirst implementation planning group with representatives of potential FootyFirst adopters and implementers | To link FootyFirst developers (ie, the project team) to programme adopters/implementers (ie, coaches) | A league-specific FootyFirst Implementation Advisory Group (IAG) was established including representatives of the project team and community-AF coaches, and ‘change agents’ (eg, league/club administrators) who could influence the FootyFirst adoption and implementation decisions and behaviours |
| Task 3 | State FootyFirst use outcomes and specify reach, adoption and implementation performance objectives | To describe what the implementation activities should accomplish including who had to do what for coaches to be reached and FootyFirst to be adopted and implemented | Key question: “What do community-AF coaches need to do to constitute FootyFirst adoption and implementation of coaches?” |
| Task 4 | Specify determinants of FootyFirst reach, adoption and implementation | To identify what will influence whether or not coaches performed the actions needed to accomplish the performance objectives. | Key question: “What is likely to influence whether coaches adopt and implement FootyFirst?” |
| Task 5 | Identify change objectives for FootyFirst reach, adoption and implementation | To link FootyFirst reach, adoption and implementation performance objectives and determinants, to create change objectives | Key question: “What is it about the determinants (from Task 4) that need to change for coaches to achieve the performance objectives (from Task 3)?” FootyFirst reach, adoption and implementation matrices were created. Change objectives were developed by assessing matrix cells to explore whether the identified determinant was likely to influence accomplishment of the relevant performance objective |
| Task 6 | Select theory-informed, evidence-based and context-specific FootyFirst reach, adoption and implementation strategies | To identify specific strategies to achieve the change objectives | Key question: “What could be done to help, support or encourage coaches to achieve the agreed change objectives?” To ensure that proposed strategies had some basis in evidence, theory or experience, also asked: “Why is a particular implementation strategy likely to work?” Theory-informed and evidence-informed strategies were selected based on perceived capacity to create change in the determinants and knowledge of the implementation context |
| Task 7 | Design interventions for FootyFirst reach, adoption and implementation | To develop and produce materials and resources to operationalise the implementation strategies | Generated a set of evidence-base, theory-informed, context-relevant activities and resources that reflected the thinking and planning done in Task 1–6 that, when undertaken, should lead to improved FootyFirst reach, adoption and implementation by community-AF coaches |
AF, Australian football.