Present:

• Begin with 20 – 25% of tapes that are selected blindly and randomly, especially when good rater reliability has been established.
• Develop a priori coding criteria.
• Consult with your project statistician.
• Tapes should be randomly selected throughout the intervention period and areas of omission (leaving key things out) and commission (including key things that don’t belong)

• Define goals of the workshop
• Present introduction and rationale of the model
• Clarification of terms and domains of the model, including use of term “treatment fidelity”… We may want to consider calling this “optimizing treatment” or “evaluating treatment quality”
• Review matrix (best practices)
• Describe the model by construct, using examples from BCC studies that address different behaviors (e.g., smoking, nutrition, physical activity)
• Organize workshop by different treatment fidelity areas (e.g., training, design, receipt, enactment).
• Provide handouts including: a) model description; b) tx fidelity checklists; c) monitoring tools; d) template with existing BCC project and blank template for participants to apply their own work; and e) “Best Practices” Paper and Matrix.

• Goal: To replicate Moncher and Prinz paper with a focus on behavioral interventions/health behavior
• 10 journals that are the most popular within the Health Promotion field have been selected from the last decade
  1. Suggestion: include some international journals and those selected by the RE-Aim group (e.g., Journal of Health Psychology, UK)
• Deborah Sepinwall from Brown University will take the lead in reviewing the literature; she will start on August 6, 2001.
• Have at least 2 people code each article
• Set a priori guidelines, allowing for flexibility and needed modifications.
• Pilot test the coding
• Next step: Come up with criteria for selecting journals… may consider limiting the search to the past 5 years, if the volume is too great.