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Standards of Evidence
The Society for Prevention Research is committed to the advancement of science-based prevention programs and policies through empirical research. Increasingly, decision-makers and prevention service providers seek tested and efficacious or effective programs and policies for possible implementation. However, until now, somewhat different standards have been used by different organizations seeking to identify and list programs and policies that have been tested and shown to be efficacious or effective. As part of SPR’s strategic plan, in 2003, the SPR Board of Directors appointed a committee of prevention scientists, chaired by Brian Flay, to determine the requisite criteria that must be met for preventive interventions to be judged tested and efficacious or tested and effective. The Standards of Evidence developed by this committee have been unanimously adopted by the Board of Directors of SPR on April 12, 2004, as the standards which SPR asserts should be met if a program or policy is to be called tested and efficacious or tested and effective.
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Standards of Evidence for Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Scale-up Research in Prevention Science: Next Generation, April 2015
- The journal article explicating SPR’s Standards of Evidence and the reasoning behind those standards has been accepted for publication in Prevention Science. The article, written collectively by SPR’s committee on standards of evidence chaired by Brian Flay, is called Standards of Evidence:Criteria for Efficacy, Effectiveness and Dissemination, by Flay et al. The full article is now available on line here and appears in print in the September, 2005 issue of Prevention Science.
- Standards of Evidence: Criteria for Efficacy, Effectiveness and Dissemination, 2004 (click here for full document)