Handbook of program development for health behavior research & practice. (2000)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Steve Sussman, editor.
• Other Names: Sussman, Steven Yale
• 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 program planning -- 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.
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource (584 pages)
• Subjects: 613; Health promotion; Health behavior -- Research; Health Promotion -- methods; Health Promotion -- standards; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Health Behavior; Research Design; Promotion de la santé; Habitudes sanitaires -- Recherche; Health behavior -- Research; Health promotion; Hábitos sanitarios -- Investigación; Promoción de la salud
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452261874; 1452261873
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.