Citation

Murray N, Kelder S, Parcel GS, Orpinas P. J. Sch. Health 1998; 68(2): 46-52.

Affiliation

Dept. of Health and Human Performance, University of Houston, TX 77204-5331, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, American School Health Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9571573

Abstract

This paper describes development of Padres Trabajando por la Paz, a violence prevention intervention for Hispanic parents to increase parental monitoring. The intervention was developed using an innovative new program planning process: intervention mapping. Theory and empirical evidence broadly defined performance objectives and determinants of parental monitoring. These objectives were further refined through group and individual interviews with the target parent group. Learning objectives for the intervention guided the content of the intervention that used modeling as the primary method and role model stories as a strategy delivered through newsletters. Stage-matching members of the target population for their readiness to implement the parental monitoring behaviors further refined the social cognitive message design strategies. Intervention mapping provides an explicit theory- and data-driven guide for intervention development that maximizes intervention impact for a specific target population.

Language: en