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External Validity Dimensionb
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Percent Reporting
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Reach and Representativeness
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Individual Participants
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Description of targets
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100
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Individual inclusion/exclusion criteria
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90
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Participation rate
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63
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Representativeness
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10
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Setting
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Description of targets
|
95
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Setting inclusion/exclusion criteria
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11
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Participation rate
|
22
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Representativeness
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0
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Delivery Staff
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Participation rate
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5
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Implementation and Adaptation
|
|
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Consistency of implementation
|
26
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Staff expertise or training
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89
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Variations in implementation by staff
|
5
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Program adaptation
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42
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Outcomes of Decision Making
|
|
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Outcomes compared with goal
|
37
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Adverse consequences
|
32
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Moderation of effect by participant characteristic(s)
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53
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Moderation of effect by staff/setting
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10
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Number of sessions or time needed to deliver intervention
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68
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Costs
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0
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Maintenance and Institutionalization
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Long-term effects (at least 12 months)
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74
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Program sustainability
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0
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Attrition rate
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100
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Differential attrition by condition tested
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21
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Drop-out representativeness
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42
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a External validity is defined according to Leviton (2001).
b See Green and Glasgow (2006) for a detailed description of coding dimensions.
SOURCE: Reprinted from Klesges et al., Copyright © 2008, with permission from Elsevier.
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