title: Intervention fidelity: ensuring application to practice for youth and families.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Limited information on intervention fidelity is available in published studies with youth and families. The components of intervention fidelity, the complexity of measurement in these studies, and strategies for measuring intervention fidelity are described.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Strategies for ensuring intervention fidelity according to the Treatment Fidelity Workgroup of the Behavior Change Consortium in the areas of study design, provider training, treatment delivery, treatment receipt, and treatment enactment provide guidance for evaluating or developing intervention fidelity plans.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ensuring the quality of intervention fidelity in evidence-based reviews or when developing new interventions is essential for translating findings into practice.
authors.affiliation: University of Arizona College of Nursing, Tucson, Arizona, USA. mfaulkner@nursing.arizona.edu
authors.forename: Melissa Spezia
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Faulkner
mesh_terms: D035841:Behavioral Research / Q000592:standards*; D002648:Child; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000592:standards*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000628:therapy*