Handbook of program development for health behavior research & practice
By: Steve Sussman, editor
Contributors: Sussman, Steven Yale
Publisher: Sage Publications; Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 564
Subjects: Health promotion; Health behavior -- Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Rationale for a handbook of program development. Rationale for program development methods; title: Case study 1 : Implementing program development in a state or local health department : a smoking prevention media campaign example; title: Identifying and overcoming barriers to empirically based health behavior programming.  The connection between theory and activity pooling. Praxis in health behavior program development; title: Case study 2 : Implicit cognition theory in drug use and driving-under-the-influence interventions; title: Choosing assessment studies to clarify theory-based program ideas; title: Pooling information about prior interventions : a new program planning tool; title: 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; title: Case study 4 : Use of focus groups for adolescent tobacco use cessation; title: Nonverbal methods of perceived efficacy; title: Case study 5 : Use of a theme study for adolescent tobacco use cessation.  Immediate-impact methods and program construction. Component studies; title: Case study 6 : Project EX component study; title: Sequencing issues in health behavior program development; title: Pilot studies; title: 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; title: Mediator and moderator analysis in program development; title: Needs for the future of program development