I Wonder How, I Wonder Why: Theorising Implementation Mechanisms for a Community-based Exercise Intervention with Causal Pathway Diagrams

Evidence and Implementation Summit 2025

This talk presented an approach of using causal pathway diagrams to advance the study of implementation mechanisms.
Author

Nien Xiang Tou

Published

October 28, 2025

Date 28 October 2025
Event Evidence and Implementation Summit 2025

The premise of implementation science is that effective implementation requires targeted strategies to improve implementation outcomes. While many plausible implementation strategies have been identified, much less is understood on how and why they work (or not work). There is a critical need to better understand implementation mechanisms to advance the field and fulfill the promise of implementation science. This presentation shared the use of causal pathway diagrams to theorise and visualise these implementation mechanisms.

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