ArticlePrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2023
When Is It Time to Revise or Adapt Our Prevention Programs? Introduction to Special Issue on Using Baseline Target Moderation to Assess Variation in Prevention Impact.
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- Mediation analysis investigating the mechanisms of two school-based smoking prevention interventions in adolescents from Northern Ireland and Bogotá.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Understanding Who Benefits the Most from Interventions: Implications for Baseline Target Moderated Mediation Analysis with Multiple Moderators.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Retrospective Psychometrics and Effect Heterogeneity in Integrated Data Analysis: Commentary on the Special Issue.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Commentary for Special Issue on Using Baseline Target Moderation to Assess Variation in Prevention Impact: When (and How) to Revise Our Programs.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Mechanisms by Which the Fun for Wellness Intervention May Promote Subjective Well-Being in Adults with Obesity: a Reanalysis Using Baseline Target Moderation.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Iterative Decision-making for Evaluation of Adaptations (IDEA): A decision tree for balancing adaptation, fidelity, and intervention impact.Journal of community psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Adaptation of preventive interventions to increase their impact can be advanced by identifying subgroups or specific contexts where program effects appear stronger or weaker. But how do we know where to look for effect heterogeneity in ways that will inform successful adaptation? This paper introduces a special issue that brings together research across prevention science sub-disciplines that adopted baseline target moderated mediation (BTMM) designs to search for effect heterogeneity and guide adaptation of established prevention programs. For this special issue intervention scientists analyzed data from randomized trials using BTM and BTMM models, evaluating evidence for variation in intervention impact for trials spanning different health outcomes, different developmental periods, and different social units. This introduction provides a brief summary of the various patterns of effect reported in these papers, noting that the most common pattern involved compensatory effects (those beginning the trial with greater risk or fewer protective factors benefit the most), but other patterns including rich-get-richer and partially iatrogenic effects were also detected. This paper ends with a discussion of methodological and substantive implications of these findings for future prevention research, including next-generation prevention trials.
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