From Science to Practice: Implementation and Clinical Guidelines for an Internet Intervention for Postpartum Depression

Abstract

This chapter provides a practical hands-on blueprint needed to design and plan the implementation of internet interventions, addressing all the important aspects of the implementation process. The guidelines are based on the active implementation framework by Fixsen and colleagues (2005) and provide readers with a case example of an internet intervention in Norwegian primary care. They describe the “how-to” of implementation from presenting the background of the intervention, the theory behind implementation, actual implementation planning, evaluation, and clinical work. This serves to give stakeholders a common framework for understanding the requirements for implementing an intervention in practice, the activities and resources needed, and may guide an organization through the implementation process. The case example also shows that implementation and clinical guidelines are mutually affected by each other, and should be developed and viewed together.