Enhancing treatment fidelity in health behavior change studies: best practices and recommendations from the NIH Behavior Change Consortium.

By A. Bellg, B. Borrelli, B. Resnick, J. Hecht, D. S. Minicucci, M. Ory, G. Ogedegbe, D. Orwig, Denise B. Ernst, S. Czajkowski. Health Psychology, 2004

2,418 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, General Health Professions

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/08647f3121fb5c902da88f85c5a80f9f98e9f759

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Susan Michie
2. Lisa M. Hagermoser Sanetti
3. Stephen P. Ciullo
4. Thomas Kratochwill
5. Elizabeth A. Swanson
6. F. Gresham
7. Robert West
8. C. Abraham

In General Health Professions

1. Susan Michie
2. Robert West
3. Russell E. Glasgow
4. C. Abraham
5. L. Green
6. B. Thombs
7. E. David Klonsky
8. Evan M. Forman

Citations in the corpus

• Balancing Fidelity with Flexibility and Fit: What Do We Really Know about Fidelity of Implementation in Schools? (2013, background): “D IFFERENT TYPES OF F IDEL I TY The medical field has primarily measured fidelity in terms of treatment adherence (i.e., did it happen) and receipt (i.e., how much did it happen; Bellg et al., 2004).”
• Evaluating the Relevance, Generalization, and Applicability of Research (2006, methodology): “We purposefully use the term implementation rather than fidelity (Bellg et al., 2004) to communicate that modifications to a protocol may be either problematic or advantageous.”
• Intervention Fidelity in Special and General Education Research Journals (2013, methodology): “In particular, the Treatment Fidelity Workgroup of the National Institutes of Health Behavior Change Consortium identified fidelity measurement strategies that may be applied to health studies (Bellg et al., 2004).”
• Conceptualising engagement with digital behaviour change interventions: a systematic review using principles from critical interpretive synthesis (2016, background): “A further distinction has been made between Bintervention receipt^, which refers to the extent to which participants understand and can perform the skills taught, and Benactment of intervention skills^, which refers to the extent to which participants use these skills [146, 147].”
• A taxonomy of behavior change techniques used in interventions. (2008, background): “This would clarify links between inclusion of techniques and theory-specified change processes, links that are not always clear in published intervention descriptions at present ( Bartholomew et al., 2006; Michie & Abraham, 2004).”
• Evolution of the Treatment Integrity Concept: Current Status and Future Directions (2009, positive): “The article by Shulte, Easton, and Parker (2009) highlighted two additional con ceptual features of treatment integrity: partic ipant receipt and intervention enactment based on the work of Bellg and colleagues (Bellg, Borrelli, Resnick, Hecht, Minicucci, Ory, et al., 2004 ).”
• Implementation Fidelity in Community-Based Interventions (2010, background): “Diminished fidelity during dissemination of interventions may be why interventions that work well in highly controlled trials may fail to yield the same outcomes when applied in real life contexts (Bellg et al., 2004; Elliott & Mihalic, 2004).”
• Empirically Supported Treatment: Recommendations for a New Model (2015, background): “Bellg et al. (2004) provide a thorough discussion of elements of treatment fidelity and steps that can be taken to enhance treat-ment fidelity in trials of behavior change studies.”