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August 2006, Vol 96, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1340
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.090795

LETTER

HALLFORS AND STECKLER RESPOND

Denise D. Hallfors, PhD and Allan Steckler, DrPH

Denise Hallfors and Allan Steckler are with the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill, NC. Allan Steckler is also with the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Denise Hallfors, PhD, 1516 E Franklin St, Suite 200, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (e-mail: hallfors@pire.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We appreciate Rotheram-Borus’s interest in our study and her letter. We agree that interventions often need to be reconsidered when they do not fit the context for which they were developed. We conducted a feasibility test of a screening instrument for suicide that was specifically developed for high school students in the school setting. It should be noted that we did not develop the screening instrument and that we were testing it within a randomized control trial for a separate but related intervention. For just the reasons stated by Rotheram-Borus, we believe that interventions must be independently evaluated before they . . . [Full Text]






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