Health Education: Volume 113 Issue 4

Introduction to the special issue on adaptation and fidelity

William B. Hansen

The editorial aims to provide a brief overview of the individual contributions to this special issue, and a commentary on the contributions in terms of their contribution to the…

Component analysis of adherence in a family intervention

Laura G. Hill, Robert W. Owens

Most studies of adherence use a single global measure to examine the relation of adherence to outcomes. These studies inform us about effects of overall implementation but not…

The effects of implementation fidelity in the Towards No Drug Abuse dissemination trial

Melissa A. Little, Steven Sussman, Ping Sun, Louise A. Rohrbach

The current study aims to examine the influence of contextual and provider‐level factors on the implementation fidelity of a research‐based substance abuse prevention program…

Understanding the art and science of implementation in the SAAF efficacy trial

Cady Berkel, Velma McBride Murry, Kathryn J. Roulston, Gene H. Brody

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of considering both fidelity and adaptation in assessing the implementation of evidence‐based programs.

How prevention curricula are taught under real‐world conditions: Types of and reasons for teacher curriculum adaptations

Michelle Miller‐Day, Jonathan Pettigrew, Michael L. Hecht, YoungJu Shin, John Graham, Janice Krieger

As interventions are disseminated widely, issues of fidelity and adaptation become increasingly critical to understand. This study aims to describe the types of adaptations made…

Styles of adaptation: The impact of frequency and valence of adaptation on preventing substance use

William B. Hansen, Melinda M. Pankratz, Linda Dusenbury, Steven M. Giles, Dana C. Bishop, Jordan Albritton, Lauren P. Albritton, Joann Strack

To be effective, evidence‐based programs should be delivered as prescribed. This suggests that adaptations that deviate from intervention goals may limit a program's…

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