Adapting tailored intervention message libraries for new populations

Abstract

This paper demonstrates that a message library – the computer‐tailored intervention component that contains all potential versions of tailored content – can be adapted for use in a new setting at reasonable cost and effort. A message library developed for one population was adapted to enable its use with a second population in a different geographic region. Concludes that adapting message libraries for new populations need not be a barrier to disseminating tailored interventions and designing message libraries with dissemination in mind creates tailored interventions that can be adapted for use with different populations.

Citation

Sugg Skinner, C., Buchanan, A., Kreuter, M.W., Holt, C., Bucholtz, D. and Smith Strigo, T. (2003), "Adapting tailored intervention message libraries for new populations", Health Education, Vol. 103 No. 4, pp. 221-229. https://doi.org/10.1108/09654280310485555