Handbook of Program Development for Health Behavior Research and Practice

The Handbook of Program Development for Health Behavior Research & Practice is intended to take the reader from program development theory through program activity analysis and selection, to immediate impact studies, and intermediate and long-term program outcome measurement. PART ONE: RATIONALE FOR A HANDBOOK OF PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT Rationale for Program Development Methods - Steve Sussman and Thomas Ashby Wills Case Study 1 - John K Worden Implementing Program Development in a State or Local Health Department: A Smoking Prevention Media Campaign Example Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Emirically Based Health Behavior Program Planning - Rick Petosa PART TWO: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THEORY AND ACTIVITY POOLING Praxis in Health Behavior Program Development - Steve Sussman and Alan N Sussman Case Study 2 - Alan W Stacey and Susan L Ames Implict Cogition Theory in Drug Use and Driving-Under-the-Influence Interventions Choosing Assessment Studies to Clarify Theory-Based Program Ideas - Valerie Johnson and Robert J Pandina Pooling Information about Prior Interventions - Carol N D'Onfrio A New Program Planning Tool Case Study 3 - Starr Niego and James Peterson The Program Archive on Sexuality, Health and Adolescence (PASHA): A Study of Activity Warehousing PART THREE: PERCEIVED EFFICACY METHODS Verbal Methods in Perceived Efficacy Work - Guadalype X Ayala and John P Elder Case Study 4 - Steve Sussman, Kara Lichtman and Clyde W Dent Use of Focus Groups for Adolescent Tobacoo Use Cessation Non-Verbal Methods of Perceived Efficacy - Elahe Nezami , Gerald C Davison and Beth R Hoffman Case Study 5 - Clyde W Dent, Kara Lichtman and Steve Sussman Use of a Theme Study for Adolesecent Tobacco Use Cessation PART FOUR: IMMEDIATE IMPACT METHODS AND PROGRAM CONSTRUCTION Component Studies - Thomas R Simon, Kris Bosworth and Jennifer B Unger Case Study 6 - Kara Lichtman et al Project EX Component Study Sequencing Issues in Health Behavior Program Development - William B Hansen and David G Altman Pilot Studies - Michael Linskey and Steve Sussman Case Study 7 - Louise Ann Rohrbach et al Development and Pilot Testing of Project SMART PART FIVE: TRYING IMMEDIATE OUTCOMES MEASURES TO LONGER-TERM OUTCOMES AND CONCLUSIONS Using Meta-Analyses to Improve the Design of Interventions - Stewart I Donaldson et al Mediator and Moderator Analysis in Program Development - Stewart I Donaldson Needs for the Future of Program Development - Steve Sussman, Rick Petosa and Howard Leventhal