One view of the next decade of research on behavioral and biobehavioral approaches to cancer prevention and control: intervention optimization

As a new decade begins, we propose that the time is right to reexamine current methods and procedures and look for opportunities to accelerate progress in cancer prevention and control. In this article we offer our view of the next decade of research on behavioral and biobehavioral interventions for...

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Published in:Translational behavioral medicine 2021-11, Vol.11 (11), p.1998-2008
Main Authors: Collins, Linda M, Strayhorn, Jillian C, Vanness, David J
Format: Article
Language:English
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Behavioral health care
Cancer
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Forecasts and trends
Oncology, Experimental
Prevention
Smarter and Better Behavior Change Strategies
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Summary:As a new decade begins, we propose that the time is right to reexamine current methods and procedures and look for opportunities to accelerate progress in cancer prevention and control. In this article we offer our view of the next decade of research on behavioral and biobehavioral interventions for cancer prevention and control. We begin by discussing and questioning several implicit conventions. We then briefly introduce an alternative research framework: the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST). MOST, a principled framework for intervention development, optimization, and evaluation, stresses not only intervention effectiveness, but also intervention affordability, scalability, and efficiency. We review some current limitations of MOST along with future directions for methodological work in this area, and suggest some changes in the scientific environment we believe would permit wider adoption of intervention optimization. We propose that wider adoption of intervention optimization would have a positive impact on development and successful implementation of interventions for cancer prevention and control and on intervention science more broadly, including accumulation of a coherent base of knowledge about what works and what does not; establishment of an empirical basis for adaptation of interventions to different settings with different levels and types of resources; and, in the long run, acceleration of progress from Stage 0 to Stage V in the National Institutes of Health Model of Stages of Intervention Development.
ISSN:1869-6716
1613-9860
DOI:10.1093/tbm/ibab087