Understanding how components of an intervention can influence outcomes
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- OPA brief
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Department of Health and Human Services, issuing body. United States. Office of Adolescent Health, issuing body. United States. Public Health Service. Office of Population Affairs, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Population Affairs, March 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Government Programs Outcome Assessment, Health Care Pregnancy in Adolescence -- prevention & control Research Design United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Teen pregnancy prevention (TPP) interventions often have many program components, the individual parts or distinct features of the broader intervention. Program components can be the parts of an intervention's structure (for example, classroom lessons, weekly text messaging, and/or service learning), its content (for example, content that focuses on positive youth development, sexual risk avoidance, or condom/contraceptive use), or a combination of the two (for example, some classroom lessons could be categorized as "sexual risk avoidance lessons," others as "positive youth development lessons"). Program components are the individual ingredients that make up the whole intervention being implemented. These individual program components can play a role in influencing the outcomes of participants, such as how often adolescents engage in risky sexual behavior, or less risky behavior, such as how correctly and consistently they use condoms. Because of this connection, several audiences might want to understand which program components matter most in influencing participant outcomes--that is, the core components of a program. Core components are the essential elements or intervention activities that are necessary to produce desired outcomes for participants (Blase and Fixen 2013). Practitioners might want to distinguish key program components so they can adapt the intervention and enhance its critical components and minimize, or even eliminate, less important components. Researchers might want to identify critical program components so they can design studies that rigorously test the effects of individual components on participant outcomes. Policymakers might choose to fund interventions based on whether they contain promising components.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (12 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101777804 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101777804