CFIR is not designed to guide development of innovations. While many innovation development frameworks include assessing and understanding context (O’Cathain et al. 2019), we recommend selecting an innovation development framework for your project, e.g., Intervention Mapping (Fernandez, Ruiter, et al. 2019) or the Framework for Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions (Skivington et al. 2021). Following selection of an innovation development framework, researchers may integrate CFIR into the framework to assess context.
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