Designing Methods & Data Collection Tools to Identify Core Components of Psychosocial Interventions
Mentor 1
Gabriela Nagy
Start Date
28-4-2023 12:00 AM
Description
Relevant literature shows acculturative stress interventions are limited in scope (i.e., only targeting some facets of acculturative stress) and reach (i.e., not widely available). It is critical to develop evidence-based interventions for acculturative stress that are easily accessible, disseminable, and sustainable. To this end, the 8-session Cultivating Resilience Intervention was developed. The long-term goal of this research program is wide-scale dissemination and implementation of the intervention to distinct professional settings, geographic locations, and populations. It is important to determine the core (i.e., key ingredients) vs. adaptable components of the intervention to facilitate streamlining, adaptations to the intervention, and subsequent implementation steps. A review of the literature was conducted to characterize existing approaches to identify core and adaptable components. We compared different approaches against the goals of the present project and developed a process to reach consensus on core vs. adaptable components by engaging a multidisciplinary panel (N=40) in iterative surveys and human-centered design sessions focused on compiling their perceptions of the intervention activities that are useful, culturally relevant, important, and easy-to-understand. The process developed takes into account contextual considerations (e.g., respondents are in different time zones, have different degrees of familiarity with the concept of acculturative stress, and differing degrees of formal education, etc.). We will carry out a four-phase approach: (1) create a session-by-session list of activities to be rated, (2) develop an interactive survey tool (Qualtrics) with embedded short videos describing the elements covered in each session, (3) distribute the survey to panel members, and (4) conduct human-centered design sessions with a subset of panel members to manualize the streamlined intervention (e.g., with retention of the core elements identified through the process). Results from this project will aid other teams in developing similar approaches to inform their intervention development and refinement.
Designing Methods & Data Collection Tools to Identify Core Components of Psychosocial Interventions
Relevant literature shows acculturative stress interventions are limited in scope (i.e., only targeting some facets of acculturative stress) and reach (i.e., not widely available). It is critical to develop evidence-based interventions for acculturative stress that are easily accessible, disseminable, and sustainable. To this end, the 8-session Cultivating Resilience Intervention was developed. The long-term goal of this research program is wide-scale dissemination and implementation of the intervention to distinct professional settings, geographic locations, and populations. It is important to determine the core (i.e., key ingredients) vs. adaptable components of the intervention to facilitate streamlining, adaptations to the intervention, and subsequent implementation steps. A review of the literature was conducted to characterize existing approaches to identify core and adaptable components. We compared different approaches against the goals of the present project and developed a process to reach consensus on core vs. adaptable components by engaging a multidisciplinary panel (N=40) in iterative surveys and human-centered design sessions focused on compiling their perceptions of the intervention activities that are useful, culturally relevant, important, and easy-to-understand. The process developed takes into account contextual considerations (e.g., respondents are in different time zones, have different degrees of familiarity with the concept of acculturative stress, and differing degrees of formal education, etc.). We will carry out a four-phase approach: (1) create a session-by-session list of activities to be rated, (2) develop an interactive survey tool (Qualtrics) with embedded short videos describing the elements covered in each session, (3) distribute the survey to panel members, and (4) conduct human-centered design sessions with a subset of panel members to manualize the streamlined intervention (e.g., with retention of the core elements identified through the process). Results from this project will aid other teams in developing similar approaches to inform their intervention development and refinement.
