TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward Dissemination of Evidence-Based Family Interventions
T2 - Maintenance of Community-Based Partnership Recruitment Results and Associated Factors
AU - Spoth, Richard
AU - Clair, Scott
AU - Greenberg, Mark
AU - Redmond, Cleve
AU - Shin, Chungyeol
PY - 2007/6
Y1 - 2007/6
N2 - A major challenge in the dissemination of evidence-based family interventions (EBFIs) designed to reduce youth substance use and other problem behaviors is effective and sustainable community-based recruitment. This understudied topic is addressed by a preliminary study of 14 community-university partnership teams randomly assigned to an intervention condition in which teams attempted sustained implementation of EBFIs with two cohorts of middle school families. This report describes attendance rates of recruited families maintained over time and across both cohorts, along with exploratory analyses of factors associated with those rates. When compared with community-based recruitment rates in the literature, particularly for multisession interventions, relatively high rates were observed; they averaged 17% across cohorts. Community team functioning (e.g., production of quality team promotional materials) and technical assistance (TA) variables (e.g., effective collaboration with TA, frequency of TA requests) were associated with higher recruitment rates, even after controlling for community and school district contextual influences. Results support the community-university partnership model for recruitment that was implemented in the study.
AB - A major challenge in the dissemination of evidence-based family interventions (EBFIs) designed to reduce youth substance use and other problem behaviors is effective and sustainable community-based recruitment. This understudied topic is addressed by a preliminary study of 14 community-university partnership teams randomly assigned to an intervention condition in which teams attempted sustained implementation of EBFIs with two cohorts of middle school families. This report describes attendance rates of recruited families maintained over time and across both cohorts, along with exploratory analyses of factors associated with those rates. When compared with community-based recruitment rates in the literature, particularly for multisession interventions, relatively high rates were observed; they averaged 17% across cohorts. Community team functioning (e.g., production of quality team promotional materials) and technical assistance (TA) variables (e.g., effective collaboration with TA, frequency of TA requests) were associated with higher recruitment rates, even after controlling for community and school district contextual influences. Results support the community-university partnership model for recruitment that was implemented in the study.
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U2 - 10.1037/0893-3200.21.2.137
DO - 10.1037/0893-3200.21.2.137
M3 - Article
C2 - 17605536
AN - SCOPUS:34548406118
SN - 0893-3200
VL - 21
SP - 137
EP - 146
JO - Journal of Family Psychology
JF - Journal of Family Psychology
IS - 2
ER -