Initial Development of Pragmatic Behavioral Activation Fidelity Assessments.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Our goal was to develop brief pragmatic assessments of Behavioral Activation (BA) fidelity to support its dissemination in low-resource settings.

Methods

We used qualitative and quantitative methods across three investigations to develop pragmatic assessments rated from the perspective of therapists, patients, and observers: (1) we developed an initial comprehensive pool of 119 items and adapted/refined the item pool to 32 items through stakeholder focus groups and cognitive interviews; (2) independent blind judges rated each of items in the refined item pool on an early session of BA for 64 patients to support the selection of items based on predictive validity; and (3) we conducted a preliminary evaluation of the acceptability and feasibility of the assessments of

SUBMITTER: Connolly Gibbons MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9628315 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature