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Tinkering with Perfection: Theory Development in the Intervention Cultural Adaptation Field

Abstract

Background  

Testing evidence-based interventions (EBIs) outside of their home country has become increasingly commonplace. There is a
need for theoretically guided research on how to best create and test the effects of culturally adapted interventions.

Objective  

To illustrate how the field might raise the scientific and practical value of future effectiveness and dissemination trials
of culturally adapted interventions, as well as to provide support for theoretically informed research on this subject to
take greater root.

Methods  

Nine theories that offer guidance on how to adapt existing EBIs for a new cultural group were summarized and evaluated.

Results  

Commonalities among the selected theories included a focus on the need for collaboration as part of the adaptation process
and shared emphasis on taking systematic steps to select an intervention to adapt, as well as calls for adaptations to be
guided by specific types of empirical studies. Among the theories, variability existed in terms of what constituted an adaptation.

Conclusions  

As EBIs go global, intervention adaptation promises to be the subject of substantial future scholarly attention. There is
a need to develop systematic evidence-based methods that allow for some degree of adaptation, while still bringing about EBIs’
desired benefits.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original Paper
  • Pages 1-23
  • DOI 10.1007/s10566-011-9162-6
  • Authors
    • Laura Ferrer-Wreder, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Knut Sundell, Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Shahram Mansoory, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Journal Child and Youth Care Forum
    • Online ISSN 1573-3319
    • Print ISSN 1053-1890
Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 12/26/2011 | Link to this post on IFP |
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