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Fidelity Assessment Checklist Development for Community Nursing Research in Early Childhood
Nurses play an important role in promoting positive childhood development via early interventions intended to support parenting. Despite recognizing the need to deliver vital parenting programs, monitoring fidelity has largely been ignored. Fidelity refers to the degree to which healthcare programs...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8160096/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34055705 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.582950 |
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author | Anis, Lubna Benzies, Karen M. Ewashen, Carol Hart, Martha J. Letourneau, Nicole |
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description | Nurses play an important role in promoting positive childhood development via early interventions intended to support parenting. Despite recognizing the need to deliver vital parenting programs, monitoring fidelity has largely been ignored. Fidelity refers to the degree to which healthcare programs follow a well-defined set of criteria specifically designed for a particular program model. With increasing demands for early intervention programs to be delivered by non-specialists, rigorous yet pragmatic strategies for maintaining fidelity are needed. This paper describes the step-by-step development and evaluation of a program fidelity measure, using the Attachment and Child Health (ATTACH™) parenting program as an exemplar. The overall quality index for program delivery varied between “very good” to “excellent,” with a mean of 4.3/5. Development of checklists like the ATTACH™ fidelity assessment checklist enables the systematic evaluation of program delivery and identification of therapeutic components that enable targeted efforts at improvement. In future, research should examine links between program fidelity and targeted outcomes to ascertain if increased fidelity scores yield more favorable effects of parenting programs. |
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spelling | pubmed-81600962021-05-29 Fidelity Assessment Checklist Development for Community Nursing Research in Early Childhood Anis, Lubna Benzies, Karen M. Ewashen, Carol Hart, Martha J. Letourneau, Nicole Front Public Health Public Health Nurses play an important role in promoting positive childhood development via early interventions intended to support parenting. Despite recognizing the need to deliver vital parenting programs, monitoring fidelity has largely been ignored. Fidelity refers to the degree to which healthcare programs follow a well-defined set of criteria specifically designed for a particular program model. With increasing demands for early intervention programs to be delivered by non-specialists, rigorous yet pragmatic strategies for maintaining fidelity are needed. This paper describes the step-by-step development and evaluation of a program fidelity measure, using the Attachment and Child Health (ATTACH™) parenting program as an exemplar. The overall quality index for program delivery varied between “very good” to “excellent,” with a mean of 4.3/5. Development of checklists like the ATTACH™ fidelity assessment checklist enables the systematic evaluation of program delivery and identification of therapeutic components that enable targeted efforts at improvement. In future, research should examine links between program fidelity and targeted outcomes to ascertain if increased fidelity scores yield more favorable effects of parenting programs. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8160096/ /pubmed/34055705 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.582950 Text en Copyright © 2021 Anis, Benzies, Ewashen, Hart and Letourneau. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Anis, Lubna Benzies, Karen M. Ewashen, Carol Hart, Martha J. Letourneau, Nicole Fidelity Assessment Checklist Development for Community Nursing Research in Early Childhood |
title | Fidelity Assessment Checklist Development for Community Nursing Research in Early Childhood |
title_full | Fidelity Assessment Checklist Development for Community Nursing Research in Early Childhood |
title_fullStr | Fidelity Assessment Checklist Development for Community Nursing Research in Early Childhood |
title_full_unstemmed | Fidelity Assessment Checklist Development for Community Nursing Research in Early Childhood |
title_short | Fidelity Assessment Checklist Development for Community Nursing Research in Early Childhood |
title_sort | fidelity assessment checklist development for community nursing research in early childhood |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8160096/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34055705 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.582950 |
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