Overview
- Contributed chapters cover statistical analysis, adaptive interventions and real-world implementation examples
- Makes formal optimization of behavioral and biobehavioral interventions easy to implement in research and practice
- Builds on methodology presented in monograph by Linda Collins, "Optimization of Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions" (Springer, 2018)
Part of the book series: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences (SSBS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
Behavioral, biobehavioral, and biomedical interventions are programs with the objective of improving and maintaining human health and well-being, broadly defined, in individuals, families, schools, organizations, or communities. These interventions may be aimed at, for example, preventing or treating disease, promoting physical and mental health, preventing violence, or improving academic achievement.
This book provides additional information on a principled empirical framework for developing interventions that are more effective, efficient, economical, and scalable. This framework is introduced in the monograph, "Optimization of Behavioral, Biobehavioral, and Biomedical Interventions: The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST)" by Linda M. Collins (Springer, 2018). The present book is focused on advanced topics related to MOST. The chapters, all written by experts, are devoted to topics ranging from experimental design and data analysis to development of a conceptual model and implementation of a complex experiment in the field. Intervention scientists who are preparing to apply MOST will find this book an important reference and guide for their research. Fields to which this work pertains include public health (medicine, nursing, health economics, implementation sciences), behavioral sciences (psychology, criminal justice), statistics, and education.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kari C. Kugler is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Biobehavioral Health and an Affiliate of the Methodology Center at Penn State. Trained as a behavioral epidemiologist, her work focuses on the design and analysis of multi-component, multi-level interventions targeting a wide range of health behaviors among various populations and contexts. She collaborates with intervention scientists on building highly effective and efficient behavioral interventions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Optimization of Behavioral, Biobehavioral, and Biomedical Interventions
Book Subtitle: Advanced Topics
Editors: Linda M. Collins, Kari C. Kugler
Series Title: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91776-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91775-7Published: 11 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06296-5Published: 09 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91776-4Published: 28 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2199-7357
Series E-ISSN: 2199-7365
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 301
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Behavioral Sciences, Psychological Methods/Evaluation