BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION IN FAMILY SKILLS PREVENTIVE INTERVENTIONS AND THEIR EVALUATIONS - A REPLICATION AND EXTENSION

This study extends a line of programmatic research on families who dec line participation in intervention and assessment components of family -focused prevention projects. Parents responding to a brief telephone interview (N = 459) identified the most important of 28 barriers conce rning project assessments, intervention-related time demands and logis tic requirements, beliefs and attitudes about interventions and family member influences. Results demonstrated that several time-related fac tors, logistic requirements, and family member influences were importa nt barriers Findings also showed that sociodemographic factors were as sociated with unfavorable attitudes about interventions and their asse ssments. Implications for the development of effective recruitment str ategies and for future research are presented.