This book offers a step-by-step guide to intervention research including the methods and
techniques that researchers higher degree research students and others can use when pursuing
intervention research in schools and other settings. Guided by the Intervention Research
Framework it also provides practical information on linking a program developed using a
comprehensive evidence-based approach to research and evaluation processes. The handbook also
illustrates how to select an appropriate research sample for research how to develop valid and
reliable instruments for measuring change including how to devise appropriate measures for
assessing behavioural change how to recruit and negotiate with schools (and other settings)
for research involving young people how to measure and incorporate measures of fidelity of
implementation to understand dose response and behavior change and how to optimize data
collection and dissemination. The development and longitudinal assessment of the multi
award-winning School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project (SHAHRP) - the first alcohol
harm reduction study to assess the impact of a school-based classroom intervention on alcohol
use alcohol-related behaviors and alcohol-related harm using a harm reduction paradigm -
provides a practical example of the intervention research processes described in this handbook.
