Comparing two federal financing strategies on penetration and sustainment of the adolescent community reinforcement approach for substance use disorders: protocol for a mixed-method study

Table 3 Data collection activities for comparing A-CRA sustainment outcomes between grant types

Activity	Measures	Participants	Time	Compensation	Relevant Aims^a
Semi-structured interviews (all waves)			45 min	$25	Aims 2a, 2b, 3
	*A-CRA supervisor knowledge	Supervisors^b
	*Number of certified therapists	Supervisors^b
	*Number of certified supervisors	Supervisors^b
	*A-CRA usage	Supervisors^b
	*A-CRA dosage	Clinicians^b
	*Supervision frequency	Clinicians^b Clinicians^b
	*Supervision content	Clinicians^b Clinicians^b
	*Use of session review	Clinicians^b
	*A-CRA training quality	Supervisors^b
	Organization-reported barriers/ facilitators of A-CRA sustainment	Clinicians, supervisors^b
	State agency-reported barriers/ facilitators of A-CRA sustainment	State behavioral health agency administrators
	Impact of COVID-19 on A-CRA sustainment	Clinicians, supervisors, state behavioral health agency administrators
Web survey (all waves)			30 min	$25	Aims 2a, 2b, 3
	*A-CRA clinician knowledge	Clinicians^b
	Sustainment capacities (PSAT) [67]	Clinicians, supervisors^b
	External support [65]	Supervisors^b
	Leadership support (ILS [66])	Clinicians^b
Document review	A-CRA sustainment-related documents	State behavioral health agency administrators	as needed	n/a	Aims 2a, 2b, 3

A-CRA Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach, ILS Implementation Leadership Scale, PSAT Program Sustainability Assessment Tool
^*An element that is used to calculate the 10-element A-CRA sustainment outcome measure [68]
^aSee Fig. 1 for details of the project aims and how they relate to each other
^bData collected from organization-focused grantees in the previous project will be included in the analysis

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