Lecture 1: intervention mapping

Question 1

definition intervention

Answer 1

combination of strategies designed to produce behavior changes or improve situations among individuals, groups or an entire population

Question 2

useful to know about an intervention

Answer 2

• can include educational programs, new or stronger policies, improvements in the environment, or a health campaign
• multiple strategies are the most effective
• implement in different settings (communities, worksites, schools, organizations)

Question 3

definition intervention mapping

Answer 3

framework for effective decision making at each step in the intervention development

• makes planning explicit and transparent
• facilitates collaborative partners in a multidisciplinary group

Question 4

6 steps and tasks in intervention mapping

Answer 4

1. What is the problem?
   - prior research and need assessment (what does the target group say about their own experience)
2. What are the objectives? & What are the determinants of the problem
   - what must be changed?
   - personal determinants and external determinants
   - who is the target population
3. Identifying potential intervention methods
   - How can the determinants be influenced for the desired change?
4. Design program materials, pretest material
5. Implementation of intervention
6. Monitoring and evaluation, meaning effects and processes

Question 5

definition network intervention

Answer 5

the process of using social networks to accelerate social change, generate influence, achieve desirable outcomes
- people can be effectively influences through their social network to adopt new behavior

Question 6

3 levels of network interventions strategies

Answer 6

1. Individual level: targeting specific individuals in a social network –> nodes, influencers
2. segmentation: targeting a specific group within a social network
3. induction: generating new connections among individuals, e.g. word of mouth