Handbook of Program Development for Health Behavior Research and Practice

The Handbook of Program Development for Health Behavior Research and Practice guides the reader from program development theory through program activity analysis and selection, immediate impact studies, and intermediate and long-term outcome measurement. The handbook consists of five parts, providing a wealth of information about: - The history and rationale for engaging in health behavior program development, including a case study that shows how to apply the six-step program development model and ways of surmounting the hurdles to engaging in program development - The role of theory in program development, the use of assessment studies to fill in gaps in theory regarding what leads to health-related behavior, and many issues and resources relevant to pooling information about prior interventions - Perceived efficacy (i.e. concept evaluation) methods of activity selection, including verbal and paper-and-pencil methods of selecting potentially useful activities - Immediate-impact studies of activities and program creation - Ways to find immediate-outcome measures that predict longer-term outcome measures, and future issues to consider in the arena of health behavior program development. Each section consists of an overview; one or more commentaries from recognized theorists, researchers, and practitioners in the health field, and case studies that provide guidelines on addressing relevant aspects of program development. These case studies will provide useful information for discussion, research, and application. In all, this handbook provides 20 chapters of detailed and useful information for researchers, academics, public health practitioners, students, policymakers, and those who engage in any aspect of health program development or evaluation.

Table of Contents:
PART ONE: RATIONALE FOR A HANDBOOK OF PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT Rationale for Program Development Methods - Steve Sussman and Thomas Ashby Wills Case Study 1 - John K Worden Implementing Program Development in a State or Local Health Department: A Smoking Prevention Media Campaign Example Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Emirically Based Health Behavior Program Planning - Rick Petosa PART TWO: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THEORY AND ACTIVITY POOLING Praxis in Health Behavior Program Development - Steve Sussman and Alan N Sussman Case Study 2 - Alan W Stacey and Susan L Ames Implict Cogition Theory in Drug Use and Driving-Under-the-Influence Interventions Choosing Assessment Studies to Clarify Theory-Based Program Ideas - Valerie Johnson and Robert J Pandina Pooling Information about Prior Interventions - Carol N D′Onfrio A New Program Planning Tool Case Study 3 - Starr Niego and James Peterson The Program Archive on Sexuality, Health and Adolescence (PASHA): A Study of Activity Warehousing PART THREE: PERCEIVED EFFICACY METHODS Verbal Methods in Perceived Efficacy Work - Guadalype X Ayala and John P Elder Case Study 4 - Steve Sussman, Kara Lichtman and Clyde W Dent Use of Focus Groups for Adolescent Tobacoo Use Cessation Non-Verbal Methods of Perceived Efficacy - Elahe Nezami , Gerald C Davison and Beth R Hoffman Case Study 5 - Clyde W Dent, Kara Lichtman and Steve Sussman Use of a Theme Study for Adolesecent Tobacco Use Cessation PART FOUR: IMMEDIATE IMPACT METHODS AND PROGRAM CONSTRUCTION Component Studies - Thomas R Simon, Kris Bosworth and Jennifer B Unger Case Study 6 - Kara Lichtman et al Project EX Component Study Sequencing Issues in Health Behavior Program Development - William B Hansen and David G Altman Pilot Studies - Michael Linskey and Steve Sussman Case Study 7 - Louise Ann Rohrbach et al Development and Pilot Testing of Project SMART PART FIVE: TRYING IMMEDIATE OUTCOMES MEASURES TO LONGER-TERM OUTCOMES AND CONCLUSIONS Using Meta-Analyses to Improve the Design of Interventions - Stewart I Donaldson et al Mediator and Moderator Analysis in Program Development - Stewart I Donaldson Needs for the Future of Program Development - Steve Sussman, Rick Petosa and Howard Leventhal

About the Author :
Dr. Steve Sussman is a professor of preventive medicine and psychology at the University of Southern California. Dr. Sussman conducts research in the prediction, prevention, and cessation of tobacco and other drug abuse and in the utility of empirical program development methods. He is first author on the book Developing School-Based Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Programs (1995), based on his previous research in that arena. He is also the editor of Handbook of Program Development for Health Behavior Research and Practice (2001), a leading text in this arena, and he is the lead author on the upcoming text The Social Psychology of Drug Abuse (with Susan L. Ames; September, 2001). He was the principal investigator of Project Towards No Tobacco Use (Project TNT). Project TNT is a tobacco use prevention and cessation project among young teens, which is being disseminated nationally by the Centers for Disease Control as a "Program That Works" and by the Centers for Substance Abuse Prevention as a model program. It is also recognized as a model program by the Department of Education of the State of California, Sociometrics Inc, and by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Recently this project also became recognized as an exemplary program by the U.S. Department of Education. His other projects include Project EX, a successful adolescent tobacco-use cessation program which was tested through use of a large, true field experimental design, and Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND), which is a drug abuse prevention project for older teens, particularly for those at risk for drug abuse. Project TND is now considered a model program by the Centers for Substance Abuse Prevention, Health Canada, Sociometrics Inc, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He has published over 160 articles, chapters, or books in the arena of drug use and abuse.

Review :
"Steve Sussman and his collaborators have done a magnificent job of putting this book together. It is clearly going to be an important resource for health education researchers for years to come. There are many social science and biomedical researchers who have not been trained in the methods of health education research who will benefit from the wisdom and know-how contained in this volume. There are also many students in schools of public health, nursing, education and communication whose career goal for research or practice in health education and promotion will be assisted greatly."