Laura N. Gitlin, Sara J. Czaja

eBook, ePUB

Handbook of Intervention Science (eBook, ePUB)

From Design to Implementation

Beschreibung

Handbook of Intervention Science: From Design to Implementation discusses multiple approaches for developing and advancing interventions at the individual, family, community, health system, and policy level. The book focuses on creating interventions suitable for diverse populations from racial, ethnical, geographical, and socioeconomical perspectives. Combining best practices with a practical approach, the book enables readers to advance their intervention research. It covers intervention design, data capture in trials, and evaluation. Decision trees help illustrate when to move forward with an implementation relative to the need for further work. - Identifies how to develop and advance interventions from design to evaluation, dissemination, and scaling - Focuses on interventions applicable across diverse populations for individual, family, community, and system wide interventions - Provides decision trees for determining when to advance an intervention or adapt an existing one - Incorporates technology in data capture, randomized delivery, pragmatic trials, and intervention evaluation - Includes case study exemplars that illustrate key concepts for better understanding - Contains bulleted key points for understanding and retention of main points

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• Größe: 30.15MB

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Autor

Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, an applied research sociologist, is the dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University. Gitlin is nationally and internationally recognized for her research on developing, evaluating and implementing novel home and community-based interventions. She is involved in translating, disseminating and implementing proven programs for delivery in diverse practice settings globally. Gitlin is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2011 John Mackey Award for Excellence in Dementia Care, from Johns Hopkins University, the 2014 M. Powell Lawton Award from the Gerontological Society of America, and in 2015 she was named as an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She is the author of close to 300 scientific publications including seven books. She recently co-chaired the first National Research Summit on Care and Services for Persons Living with Dementia and their Caregivers. She is also a recent appointee to the medical advisory board, Alzheimer's Association and member of the international Lancet Commission on dementia careDr. Sara Czaja, an internationally recognized behavioral scientist with a background in engineering, has been serving as the Director of the newly launched Center on Aging and Behavioral Research at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Czaja received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Buffalo in New York. She was formerly at the University of Miami where she was Director of the Center on Aging. Her honors include the Jack A. Kraft Award for Innovation from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the Social Impact Award from the Association of Computing Machinery, and recently, CREATE was the recipient of the first American Psychological Association (APA) Prize for Interdisciplinary Team Research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780443216657
• Artikelnr.: 75403338