Complementary Tools

Complementary tools are available and may be helpful to you as you complete the tool.

For example, this tool will generate a list of candidate TMF for you to consider. You may then choose to use T-CaST to help select the most appropriate TMF from the list, for your specific project.

  • T-CaST: an Implementation Theory Comparison and Selection Tool)1: a checklist of 16 criteria (organised within four categories: usability, validity, applicability, acceptability) for KT researchers and practitioners to consult when selecting between two or more candidate TMF.

Other complementary tools include:

  • Dissemination & Implementation Models in Health2: an interactive webtool for KT researchers and practitioners to consult when developing a logic model; selecting, combining, adapting and applying TMF; and identifying measures to assess key constructs.
  • Lynch and colleagues’ “five questions to consider” when selecting TMF3: Who are you working with? When in the process are you going to use TMF? Why are you applying TMF? How will you collect data? What resources are available?
  1. Theory, Model, and Framework Comparison and Selection Tool (T-CaST). Available at https://impsci.tracs.unc.edu/tcast/.
  2. Lynch EA, Mudge A, Knowles S, Kitson AL, Hunter SC, Harvey G. "There is nothing so practical as a good theory": a pragmatic guide for selecting theoretical approaches for implementation projects. BMC Health Serv Res 2018;18(1):857.
  3. Dissemination & Implementation Models in Health. Available at https://dissemination-implementation.org/