caa a22 4500 606153284 CHVBK 20210128100553.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11121-015-0584-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11121-015-0584-5 Maybe Small Is Too Small a Term: Introduction to Advancing Small Sample Prevention Science [Elektronische Daten] [Carlotta Fok, David Henry, James Allen] Prevention research addressing health disparities often involves work with small population groups experiencing such disparities. The goals of this special section are to (1) address the question of what constitutes a small sample; (2) identify some of the key research design and analytic issues that arise in prevention research with small samples; (3) develop applied, problem-oriented, and methodologically innovative solutions to these design and analytic issues; and (4) evaluate the potential role of these innovative solutions in describing phenomena, testing theory, and evaluating interventions in prevention research. Through these efforts, we hope to promote broader application of these methodological innovations. We also seek whenever possible, to explore their implications in more general problems that appear in research with small samples but concern all areas of prevention research. This special section includes two sections. The first section aims to provide input for researchers at the design phase, while the second focuses on analysis. Each article describes an innovative solution to one or more challenges posed by the analysis of small samples, with special emphasis on testing for intervention effects in prevention research. A concluding article summarizes some of their broader implications, along with conclusions regarding future directions in research with small samples in prevention science. Finally, a commentary provides the perspective of the federal agencies that sponsored the conference that gave rise to this special section. Society for Prevention Research, 2015 Small samples nationallicence Research methods nationallicence Statistical methods nationallicence Health disparities nationallicence Ethnic minority research nationallicence Fok Carlotta Center for Alaska Native Health Research, Institute for Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA aut Henry David Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA aut Allen James Department of Biobehavioral Health and Population Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, Duluth, USA aut Prevention Science Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 16/7(2015-10-01), 943-949 1389-4986 16:7<943 2015 16 11121 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-015-0584-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-015-0584-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fok Carlotta Center for Alaska Native Health Research, Institute for Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Henry David Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Allen James Department of Biobehavioral Health and Population Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, Duluth, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prevention Science Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 16/7(2015-10-01), 943-949 1389-4986 16:7<943 2015 16 11121