Problems and prospects of applied research: The development of an adolescent smoking prevention program |
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| Authors: | Julie A Burke Samuel L Becker Rebecca A Arbogast Michelle J Naughton |
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| Institution: | 1. Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies , University of Iowa , 105 CSB, Iowa City, IA, 52242;2. Professor, Department of Communication Studies , University of Iowa;3. Law student at Yale University;4. Post‐doctoral fellow in the Research Training Program in Cardiovascular Health Behavior , University of Minnesota |
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| Abstract: | This paper argues that applied research has the potential for making important theoretical contributions if efforts are made to explore and overcome inadequacies in existing social scientific theories by integrating, refining, and expanding these theories to achieve the necessary scope to solve the problem at hand. Ways in which these ends might be achieved are suggested through discussion of the procedures employed and the problems encountered in the development and assessment of Iowa's Program Against Smoking (I‐PAS), a theoretically‐based program to reduce adolescents' tobacco use. |
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