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ERIC Number: EJ1489898
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1866-2625
EISSN: EISSN-1866-2633
Available Date: 2025-07-25
The PAX Good Behavior Game: A Scoping Review of Implementation and Dissemination Strategies and Outcomes to Inform Expansion Efforts in Educational Contexts
Yuika Iwai1; Carolyn Campbell1; Samanta Boddapati2,3; Margaret Rosencrans2,3; Cara Dillon1,4; Steven W. Evans1; Glenn V. Thomas2,3; Julie Sarno Owens1
School Mental Health, v17 n3 p733-752 2025
Dissemination and evaluation of the PAX Good Behavior Game (PAX GBG) have produced a body of published and unpublished literature that, if mapped, can provide valuable insights for future expansion and evaluation efforts. Conducting a scoping review of implementation and dissemination studies and gray literature (i.e., "sources"), we aimed to identify (1) implementation strategies being used to support PAX GBG in schools, (2) implementation outcomes assessed across sources, and (3) dissemination strategies being used to promote practice-based implementation of PAX GBG in schools. Our search strategies resulted in 47 sources meeting criteria for full-text extraction. We identified eight implementation strategies: Ongoing consultation/coaching, promoting adaptability (as uniquely defined by each author team), and adaptation of training were the most common. These strategies may be important for future evaluation. Implementation fidelity, implementation quality, and data on coaching sessions (e.g., number/length of sessions) were the most commonly assessed implementation outcomes. However, implementation outcomes were assessed in less than 60% of sources, highlighting the need for feasible methods for documenting such outcomes. The most commonly mentioned dissemination strategies were identifying determinants of innovation uptake, increasing audience skills, funding, and adapting information to context. However, no sources explicitly evaluated the impact of dissemination strategies, underscoring an important direction for future studies.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: MHAFY2022
Author Affiliations: 1Ohio University, Athens, USA; 2Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Big Lots Behavioral Health Services, Columbus, OH, USA; 3The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Columbus, USA; 4Miami University, Department of Educational Psychology, Oxford, OH, USA