Psychometric properties of the Peer Proficiency Assessment (PEPA): A tool for evaluation of undergraduate peer counselors' motivational interviewing fidelity

Nadine R. Mastroleo; Kimberly A. Mallett; Rob Turrisi; Anne E. Ray

doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.04.008

Psychometric properties of the Peer Proficiency Assessment (PEPA): A tool for evaluation of undergraduate peer counselors' motivational interviewing fidelity

Nadine R. Mastroleo, Kimberly A. Mallett, Rob Turrisi, Anne E. Ray

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Abstract

Despite the expanding use of undergraduate student peer counseling interventions aimed at reducing college student drinking, few programs evaluate peer counselors' competency to conduct these interventions. The present research describes the development and psychometric assessments of the Peer Proficiency Assessment (PEPA), a new tool for examining Motivational Interviewing adherence in undergraduate student peer delivered interventions. Twenty peer delivered sessions were evaluated by master and undergraduate student coders using a cross-validation design to examine peer based alcohol intervention sessions. Assessments revealed high inter-rater reliability between student and master coders and good correlations between previously established fidelity tools. Findings lend support for the use of the PEPA to examine peer counselor competency. The PEPA, training for use, inter-rater reliability information, construct and predictive validity, and tool usefulness are described.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	717-722
Number of pages	6
Journal	Addictive Behaviors
Volume	34
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.04.008
State	Published - Sep 2009

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This research was supported by grants F31 AA 017012 awarded to Nadine Mastroleo and R01 AA 12529 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarded to Rob Turrisi. The authors would like to thank Rachel Bachrach and Katherine Peters for assistance with development of the manuscript.

Keywords

Alcohol
College students
Motivational interviewing
Peer counseling

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Medicine (miscellaneous)
Clinical Psychology
Toxicology
Psychiatry and Mental health

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