title: Sustainability of behavioral interventions: beyond cost-effectiveness analysis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Behavioral researchers need to ensure that successful interventions are sustained after the efficacy and effectiveness research concludes.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article provides an overview of economic analyses that can be incorporated into behavioral medicine interventions to promote sustainability and recommendations regarding their use. We suggest that researchers interested in ensuring that their interventions are sustained include a budget impact analysis and identify the return on investment to the organizations or groups who must adopt and maintain the interventions at the conclusion of the study.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We advocate the use of a thorough budget impact analysis that includes assessments of the change in costs and revenues for each organization over the short run and the monetary value of the intervention to the participants.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  By anticipating the types of economic information that will best promote sustainability, behavioral medicine researchers can better ensure the successful dissemination and translation of their interventions into sustained practice.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Merced, USA, pbrown3@ucmerced.edu.
authors.forename: Paul M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Linda D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Cameron
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ramondt
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D002017:Budgets; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans