Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Intervention Research

A Practical Guide for Developing Evidence-based School Prevention Programmes

  • Book
  • © 2016

Overview

Authors:
  1. Nyanda McBride

    1. Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, National Drug Research Institute, Perth, Australia

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Offers an important practical guide for higher-degree research students

  • Assists research students and teams in developing strong, innovative and meaningful studies

  • Redefines an “evidence-based” approach to intervention development, leading to greater potential for behavior change and translational impact

  • Provides a step-by step guide for conducting intervention research with a rigorous study design with valid reliable results

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Overview and Perspective

    • Nyanda McBride
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Intervention Research Framework: Background and Overview

    • Nyanda McBride
    Pages 11-21

  4. The Formative Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Theories

    • Nyanda McBride
    Pages 23-37

  5. The Formative Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Literature and Expert Review

    • Nyanda McBride
    Pages 39-53

  6. The Formative Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Target Group Input

    • Nyanda McBride
    Pages 55-65

  7. The Formative Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Intervention Pilot, and Assessing Fidelity of Implementation

    • Nyanda McBride
    Pages 67-81

  8. The Assessment Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Study Design

    • Nyanda McBride
    Pages 83-99

  9. The Assessment Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Selecting a Study Sample

    • Nyanda McBride
    Pages 101-113

  10. The Assessment Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Recruitment of a Study Sample

    • Nyanda McBride
    Pages 115-127

  11. The Assessment Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: The Measurement Instrument and Data Collection

    • Nyanda McBride
    Pages 129-147

  12. Dissemination Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Presentation and Dissemination of Results

    • Nyanda McBride
    Pages 149-164

  13. Final Comments and Recommendations

    • Nyanda McBride
    Pages 165-170

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 171-173
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book offers a step-by-step guide to intervention research, including the methods and techniques that researchers, higher degree research students and others can use when pursuing intervention research in schools and other settings. Guided by the Intervention Research Framework, it also provides practical information on linking a program developed using a comprehensive, evidence-based approach, to research and evaluation processes. The handbook also illustrates how to select an appropriate research sample for research; how to develop valid and reliable instruments for measuring change, including how to devise appropriate measures for assessing behavioural change; how to recruit and negotiate with schools (and other settings) for research involving young people; how to measure and incorporate measures of fidelity of implementation to understand dose response and behavior change; and how to optimize data collection and dissemination. The development and longitudinal assessment of the multi award-winning School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project (SHAHRP) – the first alcohol harm reduction study to assess the impact of a school-based classroom intervention on alcohol use, alcohol-related behaviors and alcohol-related harm using a harm reduction paradigm – provides a practical example of the intervention research processes described in this handbook.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, National Drug Research Institute, Perth, Australia

    Nyanda McBride

About the author

Nyanda McBride has nearly 20 years’ experience as an intervention researcher in education, health promotion and drug education fields. Prior to this, she was a health teacher in secondary schools, struggling to deliver meaningful health and drug education to her students. These combined experiences have provided Nyanda with the opportunity to develop insights into effective program development, delivery and evaluation.  She is the Principal Investigator in one of the most important studies to change the field of school-based alcohol education in recent years, with the development and longitudinal assessment of the multi award winning School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project (SHAHRP). The SHAHRP study has been replicated several times, and has a highly significant and global, translational impact on policy and practice.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Intervention Research

  • Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide for Developing Evidence-based School Prevention Programmes

  • Authors: Nyanda McBride

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1011-8

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1009-5Published: 11 August 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9308-1Published: 12 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1011-8Published: 01 August 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 173

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Learning & Instruction, Public Health, Methodology of the Social Sciences

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation