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" I applaud [this] book for providing a much needed overview of the entire "behavioral intervention pipeline." It fills a unique niche in its coverage of key theoretical and methodological aspects as well as its case examples and professional development considerations, which makes the content accessible and practical for a broad audience."
-Marcia Ory, PhD,From the Foreword
This unique text provides comprehensive coverage of one of the most neglected—yet vitally important--areas of public health research: developing, evaluating, and implementing novel behavioral interventions in service and practice settings. Written for Masters- and Doctoral-level courses as well as novice and expert researchers in this area, the book examines the most critical issues surrounding this form of research in order to maximize the ability of intervention researchers to successfully implement current and future evidence-based protocols in practice settings. Expert contributors embrace key challenges—the complexities of health care delivery, disease management and prevention, rising costs, and changing population demographics—in shaping the push toward advancing more efficient and effective behavioral interventions and methodologies.
Tackling numerous topics that have been neglected in traditional randomized trial handbooks, methodology texts, and books on dissemination and implementation science, the book addresses: ways to develop and advance an intervention, emerging hybrid trial designs - theories and new models for integrating behavioral interventions with implementation science - - recruitment and retention strategies for inclusion of diverse samples - research designs for different stages of intervention development - treatment fidelity models and measures - novel measurement and analytic strategies - cost analyses - selection of control groups - use of mixed methodology - ethics and informed consent - technology-based intervention approaches - professional considerations. Abundant case examples from successful behavioral intervention trials—both national and international--illustrate key concepts.
Key Features:
Includes examples of a wide range of interventions including individuals across the life span and of diverse communities and health systems
Replete with case examples from successful behavioral intervention trials
Presents the challenges of and strategies for advancing behavioral interventions for immediate use in practice
Written by world-recognized expert authors and contributors
Provides novel coverage of a great variety of important—but previously neglected--topics
Contents
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Marcia Ory
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. eveloping Interventions: Heart of the Matter
1. Promises and Challenges of Behavioral Intervention Research
2. Pipelines for Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing Interventions
3. Getting Started—Anatomy of the Intervention
4. Theory: A Driver of Behavioral Intervention Research
5. Delivery Characteristics of Behavioral Interventions
6. Standardization
7. The Use of Technology in Behavioral Intervention Research: Advantages and Challenges
Ronald W. Berkowsky and Sara J. Czaja
Part II. Evaluating Interventions: Attention to Design
8. Selecting Control Groups: To What Should We Compare Behavioral Interventions?
George W. Rebok
9. Sampling Considerations: Identifying Appropriate Participants for Behavioral Intervention Research
10. Recruitment and Retention: Two of the Most Important, Yet Challenging, Tasks in Behavioral Intervention Research
Daniel E. Jimenez and Sara J. Czaja
11. Mixed Methods in Behavioral Intervention Research
Joseph J. Gallo and Su Yeon Lee
12. Are Treatment Effects Real? The Role of Fidelity
Laura N. Gitlin and Jeanine M. Parisi
13. Ethical Considerations in Behavioral Intervention Research
Part III. Does the Intervention Work? Selecting Outcomes and Analytics
14. Measurement in Behavioral Intervention Research
Sara J. Czaja and David L. Loewenstein
15. Cognitive and Functional Outcomes: The Role of Objective Measurement
Philip D. Harvey
16. Statistics Is Not a Substitute for Solid Experimental Methodology and Design
Jyoti Savla and David L. Loewenstein
17. Clinical Significance
18. Economic Evaluations of Behavioral Interventions
Laura T. Pizzi, Eric Jutkowitz, and John A. Nyman
Part IV. Into the Real World: Implementation and Dissemination
19. The Role of Implementation Science in Behavioral Intervention Research
Nancy A. Hodgson and Laura N. Gitlin
20. Lessons Learned From Implementing Proven Interventions Into Real-World Contexts
Laura N. Gitlin and Bruce Leff
21. Disseminating Proven Behavioral Interventions: What Does It Take?
John Beilenson, Laura N. Gitlin, and Sara J. Czaja
Part V: Professional Considerations and Reflections
22. Becoming and Being a Behavioral Intervention Researcher: What Does It Take?
23. Grant Writing Considerations for Advancing Behavioral Interventions
24. What to Publish and When: Being Productive While Awaiting Main Outcomes and Other Considerations
25. Synthesis and Future Directions
Index
