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Understanding “Agency” in the Translation of a Health Promotion Program

Authors: Janet Page-Reeves, Sally Davis, Camilla Romero, Eric Chrisp

Published in: Prevention Science | Issue 1/2015

Abstract

Health promotion interventions conducted under “ideal conditions” to prove their efficacy are often difficult to translate and disseminate for utilization in “real-world” settings. This article retrospectively integrates and analyzes the experience of three related projects. We investigate how the development and dissemination of a school-based nutrition and physical activity curriculum for American Indian elementary school children inspired the implementation of an across-the-lifespan train-the-trainer program that has trained more than 600 trainers in American Indian communities nationwide. This process provides an opportunity to explore how individuals in the community and the context in which the research was conducted affected project outcomes in ways which were not anticipated. Results challenge the use of “internal validity” as the primary measure of success in translation–dissemination–utilization research.

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Title: Understanding “Agency” in the Translation of a Health Promotion Program
Authors: Janet Page-Reeves
Sally Davis
Camilla Romero
Eric Chrisp
Publication date: 01-01-2015
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Prevention Science / Issue 1/2015
Print ISSN: 1389-4986
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6695
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-013-0433-3

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