This research evaluated the outcomes of a school psychology training practicum by replicating intervention-based service delivery procedures established in prior research.
We argue that this approach to intervention development and reporting is 'scientific' in that it enables us to understand the processes underlying change, to replicate interventions and possibly to improve the delivery of an intervention without altering its essential content.
It is designed to help ensure that health professionals and researchers can accurately implement and replicate interventions and will be used alongside the BCT taxonomy v1 to evaluate included studies.
Characteristics of included component studies were chosen for the main data source of our analysis because they intend to provide sufficient information on various study components including details of interventions to enable readers to understand the study better or replicate interventions in their own contexts.
This has limited our understanding of how intervention content is related to intervention effectiveness, and has reduced our ability to accurately replicate intervention material and to identify the most valuable intervention techniques that should be incorporated into future intervention design (Marcus et al., 2000; Michie, Abraham, Whittington, McAteer, & Gupta, 2009).
However, replicating these interventions at community level is unlikely to succeed as only a fraction of young people will participate and among those, few will lose weight.
Assessing the implementation process of complex interventions (36) helps to 1) provide feedback for improving the intervention, 2) replicate an intervention in other settings, 3) interpret the outcomes of the intervention, and 4) appraise the generalizability and the transferability of the intervention.
If increased cost of MA in the private sector limits women's access to abortion beyond shifting them to public facilities, the impact of our intervention may be diminished and affect the feasibility of replicating the intervention in other settings.
Once an intervention proves to be effective in a given context, scaling up or replicating that intervention will seldom require the same research activities required for the initial trial.
In Study 2, the reliability and longevity of these effects were tested by replicating the intervention with a third measurement time-point.
