Intervention Mapping (IM) provides planners with a framework for effective decision making at each step and process in intervention planning, implementation and evaluation. A health promotion or communication intervention is a planned combination of theoretic methods delivered to target groups through a series of strategies organized into a program. An intervention can be designed to change environmental or behavioral factors related to health, but the most immediate target of an intervention is a set of well-defined antecedents or determinants of behavior and environmental conditions. The steps and tasks included in IM are not new to health promotion or health communication. However, the specification of the tasks in each step, and the organization of these tasks into a systematic, interrelated approach to intervention development that can accommodate a wide variety of theoretic approaches represents an innovation.

 

Below are the steps of Intervention Mapping:

-Step 1: Needs Assessment or Problem Analysis

-Step 2: Matrices of Proximal Program Objectives

-Step 3: Theory-based Methods and Practical Strategies

-Step 4: Program

-Step 5: Adoption and Implementation

-Step 6: Evaluation