Chunk #27 — 3. Results — 3.2. Partner Involvement in Study Implementation — 3.2.2. Contributions of Partners to Research Methods, Measurement, and Implementation
Members of the partnership also made important contributions to methods and measures. For example, one member of the CAB worked closely with the study team in the conceptualization and development of measures of implementation of the intervention—or “site-level dose”—which is a highly underdeveloped, but vitally important, aspect of the methodology of community prevention trials (see Wolfson et al. [26, 36]). The development of such measures enables assessment of (1) the degree of implementation and (2) whether there is a dose-response relationship between implementation and desired outcomes.
