ERIC Number: EJ1328157
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Mar
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1866-2625
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Assessing Treatment Integrity of Parent-to-Parent Phone Support for Families of Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disturbance
Duppong Hurley, Kristin; Farley, Jennifer; Huscroft D'Angelo, Jacqueline
School Mental Health, v14 n1 p35-48 Mar 2022
Assessing treatment integrity is essential to understanding how well school-based interventions are delivered. The assessment of treatment integrity is especially challenging for interventions that provide one-on-one peer support over the phone. To address this gap, we explored treatment integrity approaches used for the "Parent Connectors" program, which provides parent-to-parent support via weekly phone calls to families of students receiving special education services for emotional and behavioral disturbance. Our multi-dimensional approach to assessing treatment integrity includes the consideration of dose, adherence, quality of service delivery, participant responsiveness to the intervention and program differentiation. We share and discuss data from a variety of approaches that have been used with this intervention to collect treatment integrity data such as logs completed by the trained parents following each phone call, content ratings of behavioral rehearsals between trained parents and research staff and surveys regarding services received from participants. We discuss obstacles collecting treatment implementation data, ways our approach is continually evolving and possibilities of applying some treatment integrity approaches to wide-scale intervention applications in the field. [For the corresponding grantee submission, see ED615081.]
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Program Implementation, Delivery Systems, Fidelity, Intervention, Telecommunications, Parent Participation, Peer Relationship, Students with Disabilities, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Middle School Students, Individualized Education Programs, Related Services (Special Education), Family Programs, Mental Health Programs, Data Collection, Parent School Relationship, Social Support Groups
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R324A130180; R324B160033
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