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Currently, the United States is the Single largest financial contributor to a prevention research portfolio, spending about $4 billion annually on psychosocial research (Kobor et al. 2002). The National Institutes of Health sets criteria for reviewers on which to evaluate newly proposed interventions (NIMH 2002; Public Health Service 2003). The primary criteria are that the intervention is theory-based (usually a social cognitive theory), innovative, has a solid research design with a detailed implementation plan, is led by competent researchers with a track record to implement the project, follows ethical principles, and has a reasonable budget. These criteria and a set of norms operating among review panels, government staff, and the research community structure a research portfolio with a set of characteristics. Our goals are to: (a) review the existing norms regarding “good” interventions, (b) suggest alternative criteria, and (c) examine the implications of the new criteria for the conduct of intervention research.
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Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Flannery, D., Duan, N. (2004). Interventions That are CURRES: Cost-Effective, Useful, Realistic, Robust, Evolving, and Sustainable. In: Remschmidt, H., Belfer, M.L., Goodyer, I. (eds) Facilitating Pathways. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18611-0_17
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