How we design feasibility studies.
Public health is moving toward the goal of implementing evidence-based interventions. To accomplish this, there is a need to select, adapt, and evaluate intervention studies. Such selection relies, in part, on making judgments about the feasibility of possible interventions and determining whether comprehensive and multilevel evaluations are justified. There exist few published standards and guides to aid these judgments. This article describes the diverse types of feasibility studies conducted in the field of cancer prevention, using a group of recently funded grants from the National Cancer Institute. The grants were submitted in response to a request for applications proposing research to identify feasible interventions for increasing the utilization of the Cancer Information Service among underserved populations.
Bowen
Deborah J
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School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA. dbowen@bu.edu
Kreuter
Matthew
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Cofta-Woerpel
Ludmila
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Linnan
Laura
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Weiner
Diane
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Bakken
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Kaplan
Cecilia Patrick
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Squiers
Linda
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Fabrizio
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Maria
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