REACH (Individual
Level)
EFFICACY/EFFECTIVENESS
(Individual level)
ADOPTION
(Setting Level) — percentage and representativeness
of sites or providers who will initiate or agree to conduct a program.
- External Population of Settings — the entire local list
of possible sites for dissemination. This list is later screened
for targeted characteristics (e.g., public health clinics to disseminate
to low SES chronically ill).
- Target Population of Settings — the group reflecting the
essential characteristics to which you wish to generalize. Usually
described in terms of type of channel (e.g., school, worksite,
business) and summary demographic and economic characteristics
of clientele.
- Reported (Yes/No)
- Reach Rate = # Target Settings /# External Settings
- Recruited Population of Settings — the portion of targeted
sites that responded to recruiting efforts. Recruited sites may
be a reduced sample of targeted sites.
- Reported (Yes/No)
- Rate = # Recruited Settings/# Target Settings
- Eligible Population of Settings — the portion of the recruited
sites that fit inclusion/exclusion criteria or selection criteria
defined for study feasibility (e.g., ease of tracking, skilled
staff, computerized record system, availability for follow-up,
telephone availability).
- Reported (Yes/No)
- Rate = # Eligible Settings/# Recruited Settings
- Inclusion Criteria
- Reported (Yes/No)
- List in order of contribution to inclusion rate
- Exclusion Criteria List
- Reported (Yes/No)
- List in order of contribution to exclusion rate
- Study Population of Settings — those sites agreeing to
participate in intervention program.
- Reported (Yes/No)
- Rate = # Study Population/# Recruited Population
- Participating Setting Characteristics
- Reported (Yes/No)
- List in order of relationship to participation
- Non Participating Setting Characteristics
- Reported (Yes/No)
- List in order of relationship to participation
- Study Settings Participating — those sites that participate
in baseline assessments and induction of intervention phase.
- Reported (Yes/No)
- Reach Rate = # Settings Population/# Target Settings Population
- Baseline Setting Participant Characteristics
- Reported (Yes/No)
- List in order of contribution to rate
- Baseline Setting Non Participant Characteristics
- Reported (Yes/No)
- List in order of contribution to rate
- Does the article mention if the intervention is being delivered
in other settings not involved in the research project?
ADOPTION (Delivery
Agent, Health Educator, Counselor Level) — percentage
and representativeness of program delivery agents (i.e., person
responsible for program delivery) who will initiate or agree to
conduct a program.
- External Population of Delivery Agents — the total number
of educators, health professionals, or counselors who could deliver
the program.
- Target Population of Delivery Agents — the group reflecting
the essential expertise to which you wish to generalize. Usually
described in terms of skill level (e.g., volunteer, teacher, physician)
and summary demographic characteristics of the delivery agent.
- Reported (Yes/No)
- Reach Rate = # Target Delivery Agents /# External Delivery
Agents
- Recruited Population of Delivery Agents — the portion
of targeted delivery agents that responded to recruiting efforts.
- Reported (Yes/No)
- Rate = #Recruited Delivery Agents /# Target Delivery Agents
- Eligible Population of Delivery Agents — the portion of
the recruited Delivery Agents that fit inclusion/exclusion criteria
or selection criteria defined for study feasibility (e.g., ease
of tracking, education level, years experience, availability for
follow-up, telephone availability).
- Reported (Yes/No)
- Rate = # Eligible Delivery Agents /# Recruited Delivery Agents
- Inclusion Criteria
- Reported (Yes/No)
- List in order of contribution to inclusion rate
- Exclusion Criteria List
- Reported (Yes/No)
- List in order of contribution to exclusion rate
- Study Population of Delivery Agents — those delivery agents
agreeing to participate in intervention program.
- Reported (Yes/No)
- Rate = # Study Population/# Recruited Population
- Participating Delivery Agent Characteristics
- Reported (Yes/No)
- List in order of relationship to participation
- Non Participating Delivery Agents' Characteristics
- Reported (Yes/No)
- List in order of relationship to participation
- Study Delivery Agents Participating — those Delivery Agents
that participate in baseline assessments and begin implementation
of the intervention.
- Reported (Yes/No)
- Reach Rate = # Delivery Agent Population/# Target Delivery
Agents Population
- Baseline Characteristics of Participating Delivery Agents
- Reported (Yes/No)
- List in order of contribution to rate
- Baseline Characteristics of Non Participating Delivery Agents
- Reported (Yes/No)
- List in order of contribution to rate
Communication — process in which
participants create and share information with one another in order to
reach a mutual understanding (Rogers, 1995).
Diffusion — the process by which
an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among
the members of a social system (Rogers, 1995).
Communication Channel — the means
by which messages get from one individual to another: Mass media channels,
interpersonal channels (Rogers, 1995).
Innovation — an idea, practice,
or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of
adoption (Rogers, 1995).
Technology — a design for instrumental
action that reduces the uncertainty in the cause-effect relationships
involved in achieving a desired outcome (Rogers, 1995). A technology
has two components: (1) a hardware aspect, consisting of the tool that
embodies the technology as a material or physical object, and (2) a software
aspect, consisting of the information base for the tool.
Behavior Setting — the setting is
a physical and social environment or place where behavior occurs.
Ecological Environment — the ecological
environment is conceived as a set of nested structures, each inside each
other like a set of Russian dolls (Brofenbrenner, 1977; Lewin, 1917,
1931, 1935). The microsystem represents a pattern of social interaction
in a given face-to-face setting with particular physical, social and
symbolic features that invite, permit, or inhibit engagement in sustained,
progressively more complex interaction with, and activity in, the immediate
environment. Examples include domains such as family, school, peer group,
and work place. The linkage of two or more Microsystems or places containing
the developing person is defined as the mesosystem. The linkage of two
or more settings, where at least one does not contain the developing
system, is referred to as the exosystem. Macrosystems refer to the overarching
pattern of micro-, meso-, and exosystem characteristics.
