For research studies that will
utilize an experimental design, or will apply any intervention to participants,
this section entitled, “intervention protocol” must be
included. An intervention is any product, action, program, project, situation
or service applied by the researcher to subjects in order to affect a dependent
variable.
In writing the intervention
protocol, follow the following guidelines:
1. Enumerate,
describe and justify materials needed for the intervention. Cite literatures as
need. Present images if necessary.
2. Usually,
an intervention is a group effort of people accomplishing different but
integrated tasks. Identify the persons and the role they will play in the
intervention. Examples:
a. A
music therapy intervention may involve the following: the researcher, the child
(subject), the parent and assistants.
b. A
food tasting experiment may involve the following: the researcher, the target
participants (tasters), the assistants, the chefs and the survey data
collector.
c. A
social media experiment may involve the following: the researcher, the netizens
(subject), the actors, videographers, content creators and the online data
miners.
3. Describe
the setting where intervention is done.
4. Enumerate
the step-by-step procedure of the intervention. Be as detailed as possible,
like you are designing a laboratory procedure manual. Present images if
necessary.
5. Trace
the time allotment for each major procedure.
6. Highlight
the techniques that you will employ to attempt to maintain consistency and
control extraneous variables.
7. Materials,
roles and procedures must be supported with properly cited literature.
8. You
may cap off the explanation with a diagram or a flowchart illustrating the
process.
For studies which will have both
experimental/intervention and a control condition, or may compare multiple
interventions. For each condition/intervention, a subsection indicating the
details of each intervention/condition must be included.
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