Title: S1A: Assessing The Treatment Fidelity Of An Intervention Designed To Reduce Substance Use Among Pregnant Women

Discipline: Professional Issues (PI), Childbearing (CB), Advanced Practice (AP)

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain the importance of treatment fidelity in controlled behavioral intervention research.
2. Identify the steps in the development of an instrument measuring the treatment fidelity associated with implementation of a brief opportunistic intervention designed to reduce prenatal substance use.
3. Describe the psychometric analysis of a newly developed treatment fidelity instrument to measure the reliability associated with its use.