Using Participatory Action Research to Design an Intervention Integrity System in the Urban Schools

School Mental Health

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 118-130

  Gullan, Rebecca Lakin ^a   Feinberg, Betsy E ^a   Freedman, Melanie A ^a   Jawad, Abbas ^a   Leff, Stephen S ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fidelity; Intervention integrity; Participatory action research; Prevention program; School based intervention

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONITORING; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PREVENTION; PRIMARY SCHOOL; STATISTICS; STUDENT;

EID: 79951595397     PISSN: 18662625     EISSN: 18662633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12310-009-9006-9     Document Type: Article

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