title: Enabling the transferability of complex interventions: exploring the combination of an intervention's key functions and implementation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Several public health interventions are not described, not evaluated and not transferred. The objective was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of using a description model making a distinction between interventions' transferable elements, and those that are more context-specific, to make their evaluation and transferability easier.
  
  
  METHODS
  The theoretical distinction between an intervention function and its form in a specific context has been empirically explored. A community-based intervention (named "Ciné-Ma-Santé") has been described, using a "key function/implementation/context" model. This process has been co-constructed through qualitative research and knowledge exchange process between project leaders and researchers from different disciplines.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The use of the model proves feasible and useful for both project leaders and researchers. Nine key functions were described, as well as their implementation and the features of the intervention context.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Rendering explicit key functions of public health interventions could constitute a useful step to their evaluation and transfer. It enables the formulation of hypotheses regarding the potentially standardizable elements of interventions, and elements that can be modified while maintaining the integrity of the intervention.
authors.affiliation: LEASP - UMR 1027 INSERM-Université Toulouse III, Toulouse, France. melanievilleval@gmail.com.|Institut Fédératif d'Etudes et de Recherches Interdisciplinaires Santé Société, Toulouse, France. melanievilleval@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Mélanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Villeval
authors.affiliation: LEASP - UMR 1027 INSERM-Université Toulouse III, Toulouse, France.|Institut Fédératif d'Etudes et de Recherches Interdisciplinaires Santé Société, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Elsa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bidault
authors.affiliation: School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: Jeannie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shoveller
authors.affiliation: Instance Régionale d'Education et de Promotion de la Santé, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Alias
authors.affiliation: Institut Fédératif d'Etudes et de Recherches Interdisciplinaires Santé Société, Toulouse, France.|Prissmh-Soi (EA4560), Université Toulouse III, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Charles
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Basson
authors.affiliation: Réseau de Prévention et de Prise en Charge de l'Obésité Pédiatrique Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Frasse
authors.affiliation: Institut Fédératif d'Etudes et de Recherches Interdisciplinaires Santé Société, Toulouse, France.|Prissmh-Soi (EA4560), Université Toulouse III, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Génolini
authors.affiliation: Service Communal d'Hygiène et de Santé, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pons
authors.affiliation: Toulouse Aviron Sports et Loisirs, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Damien
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Verbiguié
authors.affiliation: LEASP - UMR 1027 INSERM-Université Toulouse III, Toulouse, France.|Institut Fédératif d'Etudes et de Recherches Interdisciplinaires Santé Société, Toulouse, France.|Institut Claudius Régaud, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Pascale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grosclaude
authors.affiliation: LEASP - UMR 1027 INSERM-Université Toulouse III, Toulouse, France.|Institut Fédératif d'Etudes et de Recherches Interdisciplinaires Santé Société, Toulouse, France.|CHU, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lang
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation / Q000379:methods; D004813:Epidemiology / Q000458:organization & administration; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration; D040441:Health Educators / Q000458:organization & administration; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D057766:Policy; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000458:organization & administration; D015980:Public Health Practice; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Community-based intervention; Complex interventions; Intervention description; Social inequalities in health; Transferability