--- ## Unified Intervention Design Framework: Hybrid Approach (Revised) ### Phase 1: Preparation - **Inspiration**: MOST, Problem-Solving Therapy - **Overall Guiding Question**: What is the foundational understanding needed for the intervention? 1. **Step 1: Define the Problem and Objectives** - Guiding Question: What is the problem you aim to solve? What impact do you hope to achieve? 2. **Step 2: Context and Past Attempts** - Guiding Question: What is the current context? Have any solutions been tried before? ### Phase 2: Optimization - **Inspiration**: MOST - **Overall Guiding Question**: How can we refine the intervention for maximum effectiveness? 3. **Step 3: Identify Components** - Guiding Question: What components or elements could be part of the intervention? 4. **Step 4: Needs Assessment and Theoretical Framework** - Guiding Question: What needs or gaps does the intervention aim to fill? ### Phase 3: Design - **Inspiration**: Interventions in Counseling, SWOT Analysis - **Overall Guiding Question**: What will the final intervention look like? 5. **Step 5: Design Optimized Interventions** - Guiding Questions: Based on data, which components will be included in the optimized intervention? What are the potential unintended effects? 6. **Step 6: Implementation Planning** - Guiding Questions: What are the steps for implementing the optimized intervention? How will you monitor for unintended consequences? --- ### Phase 2-3: Iterative Cycle of Optimization and Design - **Inspiration**: Agile Methodology, MOST - **Overall Guiding Question**: How can we iteratively refine and implement the intervention for maximum effectiveness and minimum unintended consequences? - **Sub-Phase 2.1: Identify and Test Components (Optimization)** - Guiding Question: What components or elements could be part of the intervention? - **Sub-Phase 2.2: Needs Assessment and Theoretical Framework (Optimization)** - Guiding Question: What needs or gaps does the intervention aim to fill? - **Sub-Phase 3.1: Design Optimized Interventions (Design)** - Guiding Questions: Based on data, which components will be included in the optimized intervention? What are the potential unintended effects? - **Sub-Phase 3.2: Implementation Planning (Design)** - Guiding Questions: What are the steps for implementing the optimized intervention? How will you monitor for unintended consequences? This Sub-Phase 2-3 cycle can be repeated as many times as necessary to optimize and finalize the intervention, acknowledging the iterative nature of these activities. --- ### Phase 4: Evaluation - **Inspiration**: MOST, Review in Counseling - **Overall Guiding Question**: How will the intervention be evaluated and iterated? 7. **Step 7: Real-world Testing** - Guiding Question: How will you evaluate the intervention's effectiveness in a real-world setting? 8. **Step 8: Feedback and Iteration** - Guiding Question: How will you collect and incorporate feedback? ### Phase 5: Documentation and Reporting - **Inspiration**: PMBOK, Communication Plans - **Overall Guiding Question**: How will the intervention and its outcomes be communicated? 9. **Step 9: Documentation and Stakeholder Communication** - Guiding Question: How will you document the process and results, and who needs to be informed? --- The added questions in Steps 5 and 6 address the issue of unintended effects and provide guidance for monitoring them. This should make the framework more comprehensive and robust. ----- Certainly, let's blend the strengths of both frameworks to create a comprehensive, unified framework. This new framework aims to be highly detailed and can serve as a roadmap for designing interventions. Here's how it could look: --- ## Comprehensive Unified Intervention Design Framework: A Hybrid Approach ### Phase 1: Problem Definition and Formative Research - **Inspiration**: MOST, Problem-Solving Therapy, Agile Methodologies - **Overall Guiding Question**: What is the foundational understanding needed for the intervention? - **Step 1: Define the Problem and Objectives** - What is the problem you aim to solve? - What impact do you hope to achieve? - **Step 2: Literature Review and Contextual Understanding** - What is the current understanding of the problem? - What are the current best practices, guidelines, or standards? - **Step 3: Collect Requirements through Focus Groups, Interviews** - Who is experiencing this problem? - When did it become a problem? - Where is the problem most prominent? ### Phase 2: Historical and Existing Solutions - **Inspiration**: MOST, SWOT Analysis - **Overall Guiding Question**: What has been tried before and with what consequences? - **Step 4: Analyze Previous Attempts** - What has been tried to address the problem? - Who has tried it? - When does it work or not work? - **Step 5: Identify Constraints and Unintended Consequences** - What constraints were brought on by the attempted solutions? - What new problems have been caused by the attempted solutions? ### Phase 3-4: Iterative Cycle of Optimization and Design - **Inspiration**: Agile Methodology, MOST - **Overall Guiding Question**: How can we iteratively refine and implement the intervention? - **Sub-Phase 3.1: Design Considerations** - What domain(s) does this problem relate to? - What will be the level of impact? - How strong does the evidence need to be to make a design decision? - **Sub-Phase 3.2: Component Identification and Theoretical Framework** - What intervention components should be provided? - How should these components work? - What assumptions or beliefs am I holding? - **Sub-Phase 4.1: Implement and Monitor** - How much is at stake if we get this design decision wrong? - How will you monitor for unintended consequences? - **Sub-Phase 4.2: Evaluate and Iterate** - Is the design usable, feasible, acceptable? - What circumstances does it work or not work? - What new constraints appeared? - What (new) barriers or problems arise? ### Phase 5: Documentation and Reporting - **Inspiration**: PMBOK, Communication Plans - **Overall Guiding Question**: How will the intervention and its outcomes be communicated? - **Step 9: Documentation and Stakeholder Communication** - How will you document the process and results? - Who needs to be informed? --- This framework is a hybrid approach that uses both phases and steps, with an iterative cycle between optimization and design (Phases 3-4). It aims to be comprehensive by taking into account both your detailed questions and the earlier framework's focus on various methodologies and theories.