Treatment Integrity
Also called: procedural integrity, procedural fidelity, implementation fidelity
Definition
The degree to which an intervention is carried out as it was designed, usually measured as the percentage of steps performed correctly during observed sessions. Low integrity makes outcome data uninterpretable: a plan that did not work may never have been delivered. It is also the measurement behind data-based decisions about retraining staff.
In plain language
Whether the plan was actually done the way it was written. If it was not, the data cannot tell you whether the plan works.
Example
A supervisor scores 9 of 10 program steps done correctly during an observation: 90 percent integrity.
Not treatment integrity
Two observers agreeing on how many hits occurred. That is interobserver agreement, which is about the data rather than the delivery of the plan.
Commonly confused with
See also
Written from
- peterson-homer-wonderlich-1982
Written from Peterson, Homer and Wonderlich (1982). No textbook glossary consulted.
This entry has not yet been through clinical review. Treat it as a draft.