Dissemination and Implementation of Suicide Research in the Department of Defense: Perspective from the Military Suicide Research Consortium

Abstract

Objective

To describe the development and approach of a Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) core created within the Military Suicide Research Consortium, a funding consortium of the Department of Defense, to promote the D&I of findings from funded research.

Approach

The approach of the D&I Core is described as it developed over the past four years and how it relates to the larger D&I scientific and military context.

Results

The paper describes several initiatives of the MSRC D&I Core including the development of integrated clinical and implementation outcome summaries and action briefs to facilitate researchers communicating their intervention and its empirical support to stakeholders. The MSRC Dissemination Science Institute, developed to integrate military and dissemination science experts with suicide prevention researchers from military, veteran and civilian organizations is described.

Conclusions

Several important considerations for D&I of new scientific findings by research funding organizations are discussed.

Keywords:

• Military
• suicide
• dissemination
• implementation
• research models

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported in part by the Military Suicide Research Consortium (MSRC), an effort supported by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs under Award Nos. (W81XWH-16-2-0004 & W81XWH-16-2-0003) and by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the Department of Defense or the Department of Veterans Affairs.