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Treatment
Fidelity & Adherence...
Mission Statement
The overall aim of this group is to advance the definition and measurement of treatment
fidelity and adherence in order to facilitate the interpretation of findings and increase
our understanding of the relationship of treatment intensity and dosage to treatment
outcome. We will provide BCC investigators with the information and resources needed to
ensure that interventions are delivered as intended, and that the dose delivered and the
dose received are measured in a quantifiable manner for use in treatment validity,
treatment outcome, and cost-effectiveness analyses. Specifically, the treatment fidelity
working group will be available for consultation to:
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Act as a resource for BCC
investigators regarding treatment integrity, providing references, information, and
materials regarding:
- methods to ensure that the treatment is delivered as intended;
- measures of treatment adherence;
- prevention of treatment contamination;
- standardization of intervention delivery across different
providers;
- training of treatment providers (lay and professional) and testing
of skill acquisition;
- minimization of "drift" among providers;
- quantification of intervention dose delivered and intervention
dose received as an index of implementation.
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Act as a central information station about how
the various studies are addressing treatment fidelity and adherence issues, as well as
dose issues. At their request, investigators can be referred to other investigators who
have similar designs and treatment fidelity issues.
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Organize subsets of investigators who are
interested in developing substudies involving fidelity/adherence. Studies may consists of
either groups of investigators who use common measures of fidelity/adherence and would
like to pool their data, or investigators who are interested in developing standardized
units of behavioral treatment that can be generalized across different behaviors and
regimens (e.g., what is the physical activity equivalent of giving up a high fat snack?). |
Meeting Minutes
- February 13, 2002
(Summary Update)
- July
18-19, 2002 (Meeting Summary)
- January
22, 2002 (Re: Treatment Fidelity Coding)
- January
17, 2002 (Re: SBM Seminar)
- December
06-07, 2001 (Meeting Summary)
- November
19, 2001
- October
15, 2001
- September 10, 2001
- August 18, 2001
- July
12-13, 2001 (Meeting Summary)
- June 18,
2001
- May 07,
2001
- January
25-26, 2001 (Meeting Summary)
- November
13, 2000
- October
16, 2000
- September
11, 2000
- July 20-21, 2000 (Meeting Summary)
- May
15, 2000
- April 17,
2000
- March 27,
2000
- March 06,
2000
- February
07, 2000
- January
20-21, 2000 (Meeting Summary)
- January
10, 2000
- December
20, 1999
- November
29, 1999
- November
11, 1999
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