Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States.
Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States.
Front Public Health. 2022 Apr 14;10:827412. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.827412. eCollection 2022.
Translation of developmental science discoveries is impeded by numerous barriers at different stages of the research-to-practice pipeline. Actualization of the vast potential of the developmental sciences to improve children's health and development in the real world is imperative but has not yet been fully realized. In this commentary, we argue that an integrated developmental-implementation sciences framework will result in a translational mindset essential for accelerating real world impact. We delineate key principles and methods of implementation science of salience to the developmental science audience, lay out a potential synthesis between implementation and developmental sciences, provide an illustration of the Mental Health, Earlier Partnership (MHE-P), and set actionable steps for realization. Blending these approaches along with wide-spread adoption of the translational mindset has transformative potential for population-level impact of developmental science discovery.
发展科学发现的转化受到研究到实践转化过程中不同阶段的众多障碍的阻碍。将发展科学的巨大潜力转化为现实世界中改善儿童健康和发展的实际行动是当务之急，但尚未得到充分实现。在这篇评论中，我们认为，综合发展实施科学框架将产生加速现实世界影响所必需的转化思维模式。我们阐述了对发展科学受众具有重要意义的实施科学的关键原则和方法，提出了实施科学和发展科学之间的潜在综合方法，举例说明了心理健康早期伙伴关系（MHE-P），并为实现这一目标制定了可操作的步骤。将这些方法与广泛采用转化思维模式相结合，具有改变发展科学发现对人口水平产生影响的潜力。
