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Handbook of Intervention Science
Designing and Testing Interventions for Public Health Impact
- 1st Edition - July 1, 2025
- Authors: Laura N.Gitlin, Sara J. Czaja
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 6 6 4 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 6 6 5 - 7
Intervention science is increasingly recognized as an important for improving psychological and physical health while decreasing health disparities. Most books in the area begin wi… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIntervention science is increasingly recognized as an important for improving psychological and physical health while decreasing health disparities. Most books in the area begin with the premise of having a well-developed intervention to be disseminated. This book begins with how to develop that impactful intervention, and then how to evaluate, and disseminate it.
The book discusses multiple approaches for developing and advancing interventions at the individual, family, community, health system, and policy level. It focuses on creating interventions suitable for diverse populations racially, ethnically, geographically, and socioeconomically. Combining best practices with a practical approach, the book enables readers to advance their intervention research.
The book covers intervention design, data capture in trials, and evaluation, Decision trees highlight when to move forward with an implementation relative to needing further work..
- Identifies how to develop and advance interventions from design, through evaluation, to dissemination and scaling
- Focuses on interventions applicable across diverse populations for individual, family, community, and system wide interventions
- Provides decision trees for determining when to advance an intervention or adapt an existing one
- Incorporates technology in data capture, randomized delivery, pragmatic trials, & intervention evaluation
- Includes case study exemplars that illustrate key concepts for better understanding
- Contains bulleted key points for understanding and retention of main points
Researchers and practitioners in psychology, medicine, and public health generally who design new interventions and must test, analyze, and disseminate them.
Part One: General Considerations in Intervention Science
1. The Case for a Science of Intervention
2. Models for Developing and Advancing Interventions
3: Theory: A Driver of Intervention Science
4: Healh Equity Considerations in Intervention Development
5: Cultural Adaptations
Part II – Getting Started
6. Where do interventions come from?
7. Levels of interventions
8: Delivery Characteristics
9: Role of Technology in Intervention Delivery
10: Selecting and Engaging “Stakeholders”
Part III: Evaluating Interventions from Pilot to Implementation
11. Pilot testing
12. Designs - From Efficacy to Pragmatic Trials
13. Mixed Methodologies for Testing Interventions
14: Testing Policy and Naturally Occurring Interventions
15. Designing Comparison and Control Groups
16. Selecting, Recruiting and Retaining Study Participants
17. Implementing Interventions as Intended: Treatment Fidelity Considerations
18. Ethical Considerations
Part IV: Selecting Outcomes and Analytics
19. What to Measure and How
20. Analytics
21. Economic Evaluations
Part V: Implementing, Disseminating, Scaling
22. Challenges and Strategies for Implementing Proven Interventions
EXEMPLAR: Key question - What are the challenges when implementing an intervention in community-based and primary care settings? (suggested author: Dr. Rick Fortinsky to discuss the case of implementing caregiver interventions in different service settings)
23: Disseminating, Scaling and Sustaining
EXEMPLAR: Key question – What are the challenges in sustaining an intervention in different healthcare or other settings? (suggested author: Dr. Linda Nichols to discuss the case of the NIH REACH [Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer’s Caregiver Health] initiative).
Part VI: Professional Considerations and Reflections
24. Being an Intervention Scientist
25. Publishing throughout the Pipeline of Intervention Development
26. Synthesis
This chapter highlights themes and “take home” points that emerge throughout the Handbook.
1. The Case for a Science of Intervention
2. Models for Developing and Advancing Interventions
3: Theory: A Driver of Intervention Science
4: Healh Equity Considerations in Intervention Development
5: Cultural Adaptations
Part II – Getting Started
6. Where do interventions come from?
7. Levels of interventions
8: Delivery Characteristics
9: Role of Technology in Intervention Delivery
10: Selecting and Engaging “Stakeholders”
Part III: Evaluating Interventions from Pilot to Implementation
11. Pilot testing
12. Designs - From Efficacy to Pragmatic Trials
13. Mixed Methodologies for Testing Interventions
14: Testing Policy and Naturally Occurring Interventions
15. Designing Comparison and Control Groups
16. Selecting, Recruiting and Retaining Study Participants
17. Implementing Interventions as Intended: Treatment Fidelity Considerations
18. Ethical Considerations
Part IV: Selecting Outcomes and Analytics
19. What to Measure and How
20. Analytics
21. Economic Evaluations
Part V: Implementing, Disseminating, Scaling
22. Challenges and Strategies for Implementing Proven Interventions
EXEMPLAR: Key question - What are the challenges when implementing an intervention in community-based and primary care settings? (suggested author: Dr. Rick Fortinsky to discuss the case of implementing caregiver interventions in different service settings)
23: Disseminating, Scaling and Sustaining
EXEMPLAR: Key question – What are the challenges in sustaining an intervention in different healthcare or other settings? (suggested author: Dr. Linda Nichols to discuss the case of the NIH REACH [Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer’s Caregiver Health] initiative).
Part VI: Professional Considerations and Reflections
24. Being an Intervention Scientist
25. Publishing throughout the Pipeline of Intervention Development
26. Synthesis
This chapter highlights themes and “take home” points that emerge throughout the Handbook.
- No. of pages: 520
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443216640
- eBook ISBN: 9780443216657
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Laura N.Gitlin
Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, an applied research sociologist, is the dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University. Gitlin is nationally and internationally recognized for her research on developing, evaluating and implementing novel home and community-based interventions. She is involved in translating, disseminating and implementing proven programs for delivery in diverse practice settings globally.
Gitlin is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2011 John Mackey Award for Excellence in Dementia Care, from Johns Hopkins University, the 2014 M. Powell Lawton Award from the Gerontological Society of America, and in 2015 she was named as an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
She is the author of close to 300 scientific publications including seven books. She recently co-chaired the first National Research Summit on Care and Services for Persons Living with Dementia and their Caregivers. She is also a recent appointee to the medical advisory board, Alzheimer’s Association and member of the international Lancet Commission on dementia care
Affiliations and expertise
Drexel University ,College of Nursing and Health ProfessionsSC
Sara J. Czaja
Dr. Sara Czaja, an internationally recognized behavioral scientist with a background in engineering, has been serving as the Director of the newly launched Center on Aging and Behavioral Research at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Czaja received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Buffalo in New York. She was formerly at the University of Miami where she was Director of the Center on Aging. Her honors include the Jack A. Kraft Award for Innovation from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the Social Impact Award from the Association of Computing Machinery, and recently, CREATE was the recipient of the first American Psychological Association (APA) Prize for Interdisciplinary Team Research.
Affiliations and expertise
Cornell University