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- Title
Testing an Integrated Model of Program Implementation: the Food, Health & Choices School-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Intervention Process Evaluation.
- Authors
Burgermaster, Marissa; Gray, Heewon; Tipton, Elizabeth; Contento, Isobel; Koch, Pamela; Gray, Heewon Lee
- Abstract
Childhood obesity is a complex, worldwide problem. Significant resources are invested in its prevention, and high-quality evaluations of these efforts are important. Conducting trials in school settings is complicated, making process evaluations useful for explaining results. Intervention fidelity has been demonstrated to influence outcomes, but others have suggested that other aspects of implementation, including participant responsiveness, should be examined more systematically. During Food, Health & Choices (FHC), a school-based childhood obesity prevention trial designed to test a curriculum and wellness policy taught by trained FHC instructors to fifth grade students in 20 schools during 2012-2013, we assessed relationships among facilitator behaviors (i.e., fidelity and teacher interest); participant behaviors (i.e., student satisfaction and recall); and program outcomes (i.e., energy balance-related behaviors) using hierarchical linear models, controlling for student, class, and school characteristics. We found positive relationships between student satisfaction and recall and program outcomes, but not fidelity and program outcomes. We also found relationships between teacher interest and fidelity when teachers participated in implementation. Finally, we found a significant interaction between fidelity and satisfaction on behavioral outcomes. These findings suggest that individual students in the same class responded differently to the same intervention. They also suggest the importance of teacher buy-in for successful intervention implementation. Future studies should examine how facilitator and participant behaviors together are related to both outcomes and implementation. Assessing multiple aspects of implementation using models that account for contextual influences on behavioral outcomes is an important step forward for prevention intervention process evaluations.
- Subjects
PREVENTION of childhood obesity; SCHOOLS; CURRICULUM; TEACHERS; LOYALTY; COMPARATIVE studies; DECISION making; HEALTH behavior; HEALTH promotion; MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; EVALUATION research; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; EVALUATION of human services programs; STATISTICAL models
- Publication
Prevention Science, 2017, Vol 18, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
1389-4986
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s11121-016-0736-2