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Development of an Intervention Map for a Parent Education Intervention to Prevent Violence Among Hispanic Middle School Students
Author(s) -
Murray Nancy,
Kelder Steve,
Parcel Guy,
Orpinas Pamela
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1998.tb07189.x
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , intervention mapping , psychology , population , matching (statistics) , cognition , developmental psychology , social cognitive theory , social learning theory , applied psychology , medical education , clinical psychology , social psychology , public health , nursing , medicine , health promotion , psychiatry , environmental health , pathology
This paper describes development of Padres Trabajando por la Paz, a violence prevention intervention for Hispanic parents to increase parental monitoring. The intervention was developed using an innovative new program planning process: intervention mapping. Theory and empirical evidence broadly defined performance objectives and determinants of parental monitoring. These objectives were further refined through group and individual interviews with the target parent group. Learning objectives for the intervention guided the content of the intervention that used modeling as the primary method and role model stories as a strategy delivered through newsletters. Stage‐matching members of the target population for their readiness to implement the parental monitoring behaviors further refined the social cognitive message design strategies. Intervention mapping provides an explicit theory‐ and data‐driven guide for intervention development that maximizes intervention impact for a specific target population.