Fidelity Assessment Checklist Development for Community Nursing Research in Early Childhood
| Autor: | Lubna Anis, Karen M. Benzies, Carol Ewashen, Martha J. Hart, Nicole Letourneau |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050103 clinical psychology
media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention ATTACH Fidelity measure Child Development Intervention (counseling) Health care Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Quality (business) Early childhood Set (psychology) Child intervention media_common Original Research Medical education Parenting business.industry 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Child Health early childhood fidelity tools Checklist Nursing Research Child Preschool Public Health program Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 Psychology business 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Public Health Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 9 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2296-2565 |
| Popis: | Nurses play an important role in promoting positive childhood development via early interventions intended to support parenting. Despite recognizing the need to deliver vital parenting programs, monitoring fidelity has largely been ignored. Fidelity refers to the degree to which healthcare programs follow a well-defined set of criteria specifically designed for a particular program model. With increasing demands for early intervention programs to be delivered by non-specialists, rigorous yet pragmatic strategies for maintaining fidelity are needed. This paper describes the step-by-step development and evaluation of a program fidelity measure, using the Attachment and Child Health (ATTACH™) parenting program as an exemplar. The overall quality index for program delivery varied between “very good” to “excellent,” with a mean of 4.3/5. Development of checklists like the ATTACH™ fidelity assessment checklist enables the systematic evaluation of program delivery and identification of therapeutic components that enable targeted efforts at improvement. In future, research should examine links between program fidelity and targeted outcomes to ascertain if increased fidelity scores yield more favorable effects of parenting programs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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