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## Background: Traditional methods of process evaluation encompass what components were delivered, but rarely uncover how practitioners position themselves and act relative to an intervention being tested. this could be crucial for expanding our understanding of implementation and its contribution to intervention effectiveness. ## Methods: We undertook a narrative analysis of in-depth, unstructured field diaries kept by nine community development practitioners for two years. the practitioners were responsible for implementing a multi-component, preventive, community-level intervention for mothers of new babies in eight communities, as part of a cluster randomised community intervention trial. we constructed a narrative typology of approaches to practice, drawing on the phenomenology of alfred schutz and max weber's ideal type theory. ## Results: Five types of practice emerged, from a highly 'technology-based' type that was faithful to intervention specifications, through to a 'romantic' type that held relationships to be central to daily operations, with intact relationships being the final arbiter of intervention success. the five types also differed in terms of how others involve

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Author

Therese Riley; Penelope Hawe

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); [London]: BioMed Central, 2006-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1748-5908)

Published

2009

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)