Intervention Research: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing, and Funding

by Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk PhD, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN (Editor), Dianne Morrison-Beedy PhD, RN, WHNP, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN (Editor)

Overview

This book is a practical, user-friendly guide for health care researchers across multiple disciplines who are involved in intervention research. It provides all of the essential elements needed for understanding how to design, conduct, analyze, and fund intervention studies that are replicable and can withstand the scrutiny of the Institutional Review Board and peer review. Developed from an annual continuing education workshop on intervention studies conducted by Dr. Melnyk, this text is the most comprehensive body of information available on this topic.

Contributors address the design of interventions that are ethically considerate and sensitive to culture, race/ethnicity, and gender, minimizing threats to external and internal validity, measurement, and budgeting. The guide explores such implementation issues as subject recruitment and retention, data management, and specialized settings, cost analysis, and explaining intervention effects. The text also guides readers in writing grant applications that fund , and addresses how to move intervention study findings into the real world. A unique addition to the book is the availability of digital examples of progress reports, final reports, and research grant applications that have received funding from the National Institutes of Health and other relevant organizations. This text is a valuable resource for all health care professionals conducting research and for doctoral students in health care studies.

Key Features:

• Presents the essential tools for designing, conducting, analyzing, and funding intervention studies
• Designed for use by health care professionals conducting intervention research
• Provides comprehensive, accessible guidelines for doctoral students across all health care disciplines
• Instructs readers on writing grant applications that fund
• Includes digital examples of funded research grants, progress reports, and final reports

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826109583
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	04/23/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	496
File size:	32 MB
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About the Author

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAA, is the Vice President for Health Promotion, University Chief Wellness Officer, and Helene Fuld Health Trust Professor of Evidence-Based Practice and Dean of the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University. She also is a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the College of Medicine and Executive Director of the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare. Dr. Melnyk is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in evidence-based practice, intervention research, child and adolescent mental health, and health and wellness. She is both a pediatric nurse practitioner and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, and co-editor of eight books, including Evidence-Based Physical Examination: Best Practices for Health and Well-Being Assessment; Evidence-Based Physical Examination Handbook; Implementing the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Competencies in Healthcare: A Practical Guide for Improving Quality, Safety, and Outcomes; Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice (4th Edition); Implementing EBP: Real World Success Stories; A Practical Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Screening, Early Intervention and Health Promotion (3rd Edition); Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding (2nd Edition); and Evidence-Based Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Nursing and Healthcare. Dr. Melnyk has over 33 million dollars of sponsored funding from federal agencies and foundations and has authored over 450 publications. She is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and serves as Editor of the journal Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing. Dr. Melnyk served a 4-year term on the United States Preventive Services Task Force and recently served on the mental health standing committee of the National Quality Forum. She is a currently a member of the board of directors for the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention and a member of the National Academy of Medicine's Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience. She has received numerous national and international awards, including being named an edge-runner three times by the American Academy of Nursing.

Dianne Morrison-Beedy, PhD, RN, WHNP, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN, is the chief Talent and Global Strategy officer and the Centennial Endowed Professor of Nursing at The Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

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Unit I: Designing Intervention Studies

Chapter 1

Setting the Stage for Intervention Research: The ""So What"" Factor

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk and Dianne Morrison-Beedy

Chapter 2

Using Theory to Guide Intervention Research

Julie Fleury and Sourya Sidani

Chapter 3

Nuts and Bolts of Designing Intervention Studies

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Dianne Morrison-Beedy and Shirley Moore

Chapter 4

Designing Interventions that are Sensitive to Culture, Race/Ethnicity and Gender

Usha Menon

Chapter 5

Ethical Considerations in Designing Intervention Studies

Donal O'Mathuna

Chapter 6

Minimizing Threats to Internal Validity

Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob

Chapter 7

Minimizing Threats to External Validity

Wanda K. Nicholson

Chapter 8

Measurement in Intervention Research

Dianne Morrison-Beedy and Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk

Chapter 9

Biological Measurement in Intervention Research

Donna McCarthy

Unit II: Implementing Intervention Studies

Chapter 10

Developing the Budget for Intervention Studies

Barbara Smith and Steven Pease

Chapter 11

Navigating the IRB for Investigators

Amanda A. Hastings, Cheryl L. Byers, Barry B. Bercu

Chapter 12

Participant Recruitment and Retention

Connie Visovsky and Dianne Morrison-Beedy

Chapter 13

Maintaining Fidelity of the Intervention

Sandee McClowry, Ashleigh Collins, Nicole Colwell

Chapter 14

Study Implementation: An Example using the Madres para la Salud (Mothers for Health) Study

Colleen Keller and Barbara Ainsworth

Chapter 15

Considerations in Conducting Interventions in Specialized Settings

15.1

Conducting Interventions in Community Settings

Usha Menon

15.2

Conducting Interventions in Public Health Settings

LaRon E. Nelson & Dianne Morrison-Beedy

15.3

Conducting Interventions in School Settings

Bonnie Gance-Cleveland

15.4

Conducting Interventions in Acute Care Settings

Cindy Munro

15.5

Conducting Interventions in Long-term Care Settings

Debra Parker Oliver, David B. Oliver, Geraldine Dickey

15.6

Conducting Interventions in Palliative Care Settings

Kathryn B. Lindstrom

15.7

Conducting Interventions in Global Settings

Carol Baldwin and Christine Hancock

15.8

Conducting Interventions in Multi-Site Settings

Peter Vanable

Chapter 16

Data Management

Kevin E. Kip and Sharon M. Lawlor

Unit III: Analyzing Intervention Studies

Chapter 17

Analyzing Intervention Studies

Laura Szalacha

Chapter 18

Cost-Effective Analyses for Intervention Studies

Kimberly Arcoleo and Kevin Frick

Chapter 19

Explaining Intervention Effects

Kimberly Arcoleo and Darya Bonds McClain

Unit IV: Writing Successful Grants and Progress Reports

Chapter 20

Writing Grants That Fund!

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk and Dianne Morrison-Beedy

Chapter 21

Submitting a Research Grant Application to the National Institutes of Health: Navigating the Application and Peer Review System

Melinda Tinkle

Chapter 22

Writing Progress and Final Reports

Shirley M. Moore and Margaret Roudebush

Chapter 23

Disseminating Findings of Intervention Studies

Marion E. Broome

Chapter 24

Translating Evidence-Based Interventions into Real World Practice Settings

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk

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Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: James C. Torner, PhD, MS (University of Iowa College of Public Health)
Description: As the title notes, this is a practical guide to the design, conduct, and process of interventions that encompasses the breadth of performing intervention research. The book offers guidance, from start to finish, for conceptualizing, proposing, conducting, analyzing, and presenting research in a variety of settings.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a comprehensive guide for doing intervention research. The book is a product of experience and education in research methods and conduct. The authors strive for a real-world book that has immediate utility, and this book achieves that goal through the elaboration of the process necessary to be successful in intervention studies.
Audience: Intended readers include students, faculty, and researchers. The book can be used by nursing, community-oriented, and public health researchers. Because there is less of a clinical trials focus and more of broad intervention perspective, the audience may be wider than for the usual clinical trials book.
Features: The nuts and bolts approach of this book provides not only an overview of the progress from idea to completion, but also the framework of each step and the methods used. Design and measurement are key features of the book, which are beyond most books because of the practical and special aspects of intervention research, such as cultural sensitivity. Highlights of the conduct section include discussions of budget, IRB, recruitment, and intervention compliance, as well as the examples of different interventions. Sections on analysis and dissemination focus on the importance of answering the research question and translating it into practice.
Assessment: This is a resource for success and should be a part of any researcher's library. If the goal is the conduct of intervention research, it has the process covered. It lacks depth in the methods, but that is not usually the immediate need of the researcher. It could be used for graduate education, but may be best used by junior faculty members or practitioners who want to conduct an interventional research project, particularly in the community.

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