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Best practice portal
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Harm reduction
- General best practice tools and resources
Glossary of the best practice portal
This page lists many of the terms used in the best practice portal. Click on a term to see its definition in the EMCDDA glossary.
A-L
- Action of the intervention
- Alternatives to drugs
- Alternatives to prison/imprisonment
- Basic assumptions/theory
- Best practice(s)
- Booster sessions
- Case-control study
- Cochrane Collaboration
- Community involvement
- Community programmes
- Community-based prevention
- Community-located prevention
- Comparison group
- Control group (in a controlled trial)
- Controlled trial
- Court
- Design
- Detoxification
- Drug consumption rooms
- Drug-free treatment
- Effectiveness
- Effect size
- Efficacy
- Environmental strategies
- Ethnic approach
- Evaluation
- Evaluation Instruments Bank (EIB)
- Evaluation method
- Evaluation of programme planning
- Evaluation resources
- Evaluation tools
- Evidence
- Evidence-based medicine
- Evidence-based practices
- Exchange on Drug Demand Reduction Action (EDDRA)
- Experimental study
- External evaluation
- Family-based prevention
- Fidelity of implementation
- Focus group
- Follow-up assessment
- Formative evaluation
- Guidelines
- Harm reduction
- IDU
- Indicated prevention
- Indicators
- Initial situation
- In-patient treatment
- Instruments
- Interactive programmes
- Internal evaluator
- Intervention
- Intervention in the criminal justice system
- Intervention-specific instruments
- Interview
- Key informant
- Life skills programmes
- Logic model
- Long-term outcomes (also known as impacts)
- Low threshold services
M-Z
- Mass media campaigns
- Meta-analysis
- Needle and syringe exchange programmes
- Needs assessment
- Non-interactive programmes
- Objectives
- Objectivity
- Observational study
- Operational objectives
- Outcome
- Outcome evaluation
- Outcome indicator
- Outpatient treatment
- Outreach work
- Overall objective
- Overdose (OD)
- Peer-led approach
- Pharmacologically assisted treatment
- Pre-post design with comparison group – quasi-experimental
- Pre-post design without comparison group – naturalistic
- Pre-post design with comparison group and randomisation
- Prevention Evaluation Resource Kit (PERK)
- Preventive intervention
- Prevention of HIV infection among drug users
- Primary level research
- Problem drug use
- Process evaluation
- Process indicator
- Programme
- Psychosocial intervention
- Qualitative research
- Quality assurance
- Quality standards
- Random assignment
- Randomised controlled trial
- Reliability
- Replicate
- Residential treatment
- Review
- Review of reviews
- Secondary level research
- Selective prevention
- Self-help group
- Setting of the intervention
- Social influence-based interventions
- Social reintegration
- Specific objectives
- Specific target group
- Standardised instruments
- Substitution/maintenance treatment
- Summative evaluation
- Systematic review
- Telephone helpline
- Tertiary level research
- Therapeutic communities
- Training
- Treatment
- Treatment centre
- Universal prevention
- Universal target group
- Validated instrument
- Validity
- Withdrawal treatment
- Youth programme outside school
Page last updated: Tuesday, 09 August 2011