Implementation of Best Practices Regarding Treatment Fidelity in the Family Colorectal Cancer Awareness and Risk Education Randomized Controlled Trial

Rebecca G. Simmons, Scott T. Walters, Lisa M. Pappas, Kenneth M. Boucher, Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat, Amanda Gammon, Sally W. Vernon, Randall M. Burt, Antoinette M. Stroup and Anita Y. Kinney

SAGE Open, 2014, vol. 4, issue 4, 2158244014559021

Abstract: Treatment fidelity is associated with improvement in research outcomes and increased confidence in significant findings. However, few studies report on recommended areas of treatment fidelity (i.e., study design, training, treatment delivery, treatment receipt, and treatment enactment), leaving a dearth of information about implementation components that contributed to a study’s success. Without such information, it is difficult for researchers to correctly assess previous findings and for practitioners to correctly implement findings into practice. Thus, it is crucial that studies assess both treatment fidelity and applicability of treatment fidelity findings. We report measures of treatment fidelity in a randomized controlled trial of an intervention promoting colonoscopy in at-risk relatives of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. We describe assessments related to both treatment delivery and treatment receipt. We conducted separate ANCOVAs to model the change in each of the treatment receipt variables, comparing the two intervention arms. Compared with the control group, the intervention group had significantly greater improvements in CRC knowledge ( f = 17.46, p

Keywords: treatment fidelity; cancer screening; colorectal cancer; cancer risk; behavioral intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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