| Portion of title |
Program development for health behavior research & practice |
| Contents |
Rationale for a handbook of program development. Rationale for program development methods -- Case study 1 : Implementing program development in a state or local health department : a smoking prevention media campaign example -- Identifying and overcoming barriers to empirically based health behavior programming. The connection between theory and activity pooling. Praxis in health behavior program development -- Case study 2 : Implicit cognition theory in drug use and driving-under-the-influence interventions -- Choosing assessment studies to clarify theory-based program ideas -- Pooling information about prior interventions : a new program planning tool -- Case study 3 : The program archive on sexuality, health, and adolescence (PASHA) : a study of activity warehousing. Perceived efficacy methods. Verbal methods in perceived efficacy work -- Case study 4 : Use of focus groups for adolescent tobacco use cessation -- Nonverbal methods of perceived efficacy -- Case study 5 : Use of a theme study for adolescent tobacco use cessation. Immediate-impact methods and program construction. Component studies -- Case study 6 : Project EX component study -- Sequencing issues in health behavior program development -- Pilot studies -- Case study 7 : Development and pilot testing of Project SMART. Tying immediate-outcomes measures to longer-term outcomes and conclusions. Using meta-analyses to improve the design of interventions -- Mediator and moderator analysis in program development -- Needs for the future of program development. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 00011163 |
| ISBN | 9780761916734 |
| ISBN | 0761916733 |
| ISBN | 9780761916741 (p) |
| ISBN | 0761916741 (p) |
