Effective Sexual Health Interventions Issues in Experimental Evaluation [Hardcover]

The growing importance of the evidence-based movement has made experimental evaluation a key issue among researchers, practitioners, commissioners and policy makers. However, experimental evaluation remains controversial in the sexual health field. This partly reflects the diversity of groups involved in this area and their different views on the most appropriate research methods. This book provides an analysis of the methodological and practical issues involved in evaluating sexual health interventions.

The book will appeal to trial enthusiasts through discussion of specific issues in trial design, and also to those with a sceptical interest in the potential of experimentation and its appropriateness or feasibility. It is concerned with methodology rather than the substantive findings of research, and considers the requirements of research in both developed and developing countries. The focus of the book is on sexual health interventions, although many of the issues are equally applicable to other areas of behavioral and social research.

1.To experiment or not?Sexual health interventions should be subject to experimental evaluation,Chris Bonell, Rebecca Bennett and Ann Oakley
2. Sexual health interventions are unsuitable for experimental evaluation,Susan Kippax
3. The role of randomized controlled trials in evaluating sexual health interventions,David A. Ross and Daniel Wight
4.Methodological issues in the experimental evaluation of sexual health interventionsUsing theories of behaviour change to develop and evaluate sexual hralth interventions,Stephen Sutton
5. Stages in the development and evaluation of complex interventions,Irwin Nazareth
6. Choice of experimental design,Sheila Bird
7. Cluster randomized trials of sexual health interventions,Richard Hayes
8. Biological, behavioural and psychosocial outcome measures,Frances l³4