The assessment, monitoring, and enhancement of treatment fidelity in public health clinical trials

To discuss methods of preservation of treatment fidelity in health behavior change trials conducted in public health contexts.

The treatment fidelity framework provided by the National Institutes of Health's Behavioral Change Consortium includes five domains of treatment fidelity (Study Design, Training, Delivery, Receipt, and Enactment). A measure of treatment fidelity was previously developed and validated using these categories.