References to Evidence-Based Program Registry Websites for Behavioral Health in U.S. State Government Statutes and Regulations, [United States], 2011-2020 (ICPSR 39058)

Version Date: Jul 8, 2024

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Principal Investigator(s):
Stephen Magura, Western Michigan University

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39058.v1

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Summary

U.S. state governments have the responsibility to regulate and license behavioral health care interventions, such as for addiction and mental illness, with increasing emphasis on evidence-based programs (EBPs). A serious obstacle to this is lack of clarity or agreement about what constitutes "evidence-based." This study's purpose was to determine the extent to which and in what contexts web-based Evidence-Based Program Registries (EBPRs) are referenced in state government statutes and regulations ("mandates") concerning behavioral health care. The study employed the Westlaw Legal Research Database to search for 30 known EBPR websites relevant to behavioral health care within the statutes and regulations of all 50 states. Questions of interest included prevalence of EBPR references in statutes and regulations, purpose of references to EBPRs, context of references to EBPRs, and service areas represented by the mandate.

Citation

Magura, Stephen. References to Evidence-Based Program Registry Websites for Behavioral Health in U.S. State Government Statutes and Regulations, [United States], 2011-2020. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39058.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA042036)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

State

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2011-01-01 -- 2020-12-31 (2011-2020)

Date of Collection

2021-01-01 -- 2021-01-31
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Study Purpose

This study sought to document how often and in what ways state governments reference EBRRs in statutes and regulations relevant to behavioral health care. The research questions were as follows:

  1. To what extent are EBPR websites referenced in U.S. state government mandates regarding EBPs and practices in behavioral health care?
  2. Why and how are EBPR websites referenced in state mandates--that is, for which service areas, for what purposes, and in what contexts?
  3. Do states vary in how often they reference EBPR websites in their mandates?

Study Design

This study used a mixed methods approach, wherein the researchers used open coding of the statutes and regulations to identify a set of codes to classify the context and purposes of references to EBPRs and then applied those codes to the data as part of a quantitative analysis of the presence of the identified themes. The Westlaw Legal Research Database was used to search for mentions of EBPRs in state mandates. The search included 28 federally and nonfederally sponsored EBPRs that were identified in prior research, as well as two additional databases meeting the definition of EBPR. The search string utilized both the official names of the 30 targeted EBPRs, as well as commonly used abbreviations and variants of their official names.

Sample

All U.S. state mandates related to behavioral health that included a reference to one of 30 evidence-based practice registers (n = 33) were included in the study.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

All U.S. state mandates related to behavioral health that included a reference to one of 30 evidence-based practice registries (n = 33).

Unit(s) of Observation

State statutes and/or regulations

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Description of Variables

The dataset contains variables with information about each reference to EBPRs in state mandates that were identified from the database searches. These include the state represented by the mandate, the type of mandate, and the date on which the mandate took effect; the service area group of the EBP (mental health, substance abuse, juvenile justice, education, child welfare, and general behavioral health); the EBPR that was referenced and the context of the reference; and two summary variables that refer to whether the mandate references more than one EBPR and the number of EBPRs referenced by the mandate.

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Original Release Date

2024-07-08

Version History

2024-07-08 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

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This study is maintained and distributed by the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP). NAHDAP is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).