Web-based training on Core Skills for Evidence-based Prevention Practice

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的基于网络的以证据为基础的预防实践核心技能培训项目解决了当前将基于研究的发现转化为药物滥用预防和相关领域实践的技术中一个重要但很少被讨论的弱点。人们普遍认为，重要的是通过制定有效的方法，将研究成果用于实际政策、战略和项目活动的有效实践，使我们的预防研究投资获得更大的回报。然而，目前对模型程序的依赖已经充满了应用的困难，并且在从业者层面上的接受阻力。问题包括普遍认为需要适应，以及与实施保真度有关的持久问题。这个提议项目中的方法和正在测试可行性的产品将产生一种工具，将研究应用于实践的重点从项目转移到个人预防从业者。有意识地综合研究成果和专业资料，在成功经验的基础上提供详细的描述和指导，将研究的重点转向实践技术。该产品将提供关于四套具体活动的在线和基于光盘的培训，这些活动将帮助个别服务提供者有效地实施互动/体验式服务提供，这是影响预防结果的最经常得到验证的因素之一。这四个组成部分是互动学习、反思学习、社会互动的群体加工和与青少年的有效沟通。该课程将采用EMT正在开发的在线格式，以满足在线预防工作人员的学习需求和资源限制。可行性将由一个专家小组进行系统评估，并通过从目标人群中抽取的参与者样本进行可接受性和知识增益的小型测试来检验。目前的政策重点是通过提供工具来提高预防有效性，这些工具将帮助从业者将科学产生的有关干预有效性的知识付诸实践。目前对模型计划的强调只是一种方法，并且受到规模问题（整个计划通常不是许多设置的可行焦点），实现保真度和对不同环境的适应性的限制。拟议的基于网络的基于证据的预防实践核心技能培训项目提供了一种创新的方法，将证据转化为实践，重点关注有效实施通过科学研究发现广泛适用的实践所必需的个人能力和技能。这种方法可以有效地将科学知识转化为青年和社会的利益，从而带来重要的好处。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed Web-based Training on Core Skills for Evidence-based Prevention Practice project addresses an important but little discussed weakness in the current technology of transferring research-based findings to practice in substance abuse prevention and related fields. There is widespread consensus that it is important to realize a greater return on our prevention research investment by developing effective ways to use research findings on effective practice in actual policies, strategies and program activities. However, current reliance on model programs has been fraught with difficulty of application, and by resistance in acceptance at the practitioner level. Problems include the widespread perception of need for adaptation, and persistent issues related to implementation fidelity. The approach in this proposed project and the product being tested for feasibility will produce a tool that changes the focus of applying research to practice from the program to the individual prevention practitioner. It also changes the focus of the research to practice technology by consciously synthesizing research findings and professional material that provides detailed descriptions and guides based on successful experience. The product will provide online and CD-based training in four specific sets of activities that will help individual service deliverers effectively implement interactive / experiential service delivery, which is one of the most frequently validated contributors to affect prevention outcomes. These four components are interactive learning, reflective learning, group processing of social interaction, and effective communication with adolescents. The course will be developed for an online format that EMT is developing to meet the learning needs and resource constraints of line prevention staff. Feasibility will be tested through systematic assessment by a panel of experts, and through a small test of acceptability and knowledge gain in a sample of participants drawn from the target population. There is currently a strong policy focus on improving prevention effectiveness by providing tools that will help practitioners put scientifically generated knowledge about intervention effectiveness into practice. The current emphasis on model programs is only one approach, and is limited by problems of scale (the whole program is often not a feasible focus for many settings), implementation fidelity, and adaptation to different contexts. The proposed Web-based Training on Core Skills for Evidence-based Prevention Practice project provides an innovative approach to transferring evidence to practice by focusing on individual competencies and skills necessary to effectively implement practices found to be widely applicable through scientific studies. This approach can bring important benefits by effectively leveraging scientific knowledge into benefits for youth and society.