The Use of Developmental Research Methods to Design Culturally Competent Intervention

Abstract

ABSTRACT In order to craft culturally competent interventions, it is important that cultural influences on problem formulation, intervention design, and delivery be included as focal design considerations along with substantive issues. By addressing issues specific to cross cultural practice within the phases of developmental research, this model of intervention design and development may become a better vehicle to craft culturally competent intervention. Toward this goal, this article presents one way by which tasks associated with cross cultural practice may be integrated into the first four phases of developmental research: problem analysis, information gathering and synthesis, intervention design, and development. Examples are presented from the design and development of an HIV prevention intervention for low-income, battered women.