Dogar, O;
Boehnke, JR;
Lorencatto, F;
Sheldon, TA;
Siddiqi, K;
(2020)
Measuring fidelity to behavioural support delivery for smoking cessation and its association with outcomes.
Addiction
, 115
(2)
pp. 368-380.
10.1111/add.14804.
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Abstract
Background and aims Behavioural support increases smoking cessation in clinical settings, but effect sizes differ among providers, possibly due to variations in delivery. This study evaluates a measure (“fidelity index”) intended to capture fidelity to delivery of content‐based and interaction‐based items of a Behavioural Support (BS) for smoking cessation and the association of fidelity with quit rates. Methods A fidelity index for scoring the adherence and quality domains of a specific BS intervention, 5As for quit, was developed by classifying the intervention components using the taxonomy of Behaviour Change Techniques. The index was applied to code 154 BS sessions audiotaped across 18 chest clinics in Pakistan to assess their fidelity and explore reliability of coding. The association between intervention fidelity and successful quit achieved by the same providers in a previous study was explored using regression analysis. Results The index represented two domains: adherence to delivery of content‐based activities of 5As (37 items) and quality of interaction‐based activities (8 items). The inter‐coder reliability was good for content‐based (average Krippendorff's α = 0.80) and moderate for interaction‐based (average Krippendorff's α = 0.66) items. About 70% (Intra‐class Correlation Coefficient: adherence scores = 0.72, quality scores = 0.71) of variation in BS delivery was contributed by providers, which increased to 97% (g‐coefficient: adherence scores = 0.973, quality scores = 0.974) after accounting for other sources of variation. Higher quit rates were positively associated with average quality scores (risk ratio: 2.15; 95% CI, 1.43 to 3.24), but negatively associated with average adherence scores (risk ratio: 0.55; 95% CI, 0.40 to 0.77), within services. Conclusions The fidelity index is a reliable measure for quantifying intervention fidelity of delivering smoking cessation behavioural support. Recommended revisions of the fidelity index include incorporation of additional interaction‐based items, like the relational techniques used in motivational interviewing.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Measuring fidelity to behavioural support delivery for smoking cessation and its association with outcomes |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/add.14804 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14804 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019 The Authors. Addiction published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society for the Study of Addiction This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Behavioural Support, Behaviour Change Techniques, Smoking cessation, Intervention fidelity, Fidelity scores, Fidelity Index |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082045 |
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