Evaluating health promotion: a tale of three errors

Tones, Keith

doi:10.1016/s0738-3991(99)00035-x

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“…Furthermore, mixed methods are more helpful in evidencing effectiveness of complex interventions (Tones, 2000), and in illuminating the complex links between interventions and outcomes (Victora, Habicht & Bryce, 2004).…”

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Challenges in evaluating childhood bereavement services

Dip

2011

Bereavement Care

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This paper discusses the evaluation of childhood bereavement services in the UK policy context and some of the challenges this presents. Two key difficulties are discussed: the lack of any clear, agreed outcomes from bereavement interventions with children, and the challenge of evaluating the complex social processes that bereavement interventions involve. Two recommendations are made to address these in the short term and to generate data for wider research.These are: to strengthen services' existing evaluation strategies, and to develop a routine evaluation package that can be used by all services. This would comprise a basic data set, a user satisfaction questionnaire, and a childhood bereavementfocused clinical outcome routine evaluation measure. In the longer term, further research is recommended, including UK-based longitudinal studies.

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Challenges in evaluating childhood bereavement services

Dip

2011

Bereavement Care

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“…Additionally, it will increase insight into cultural differences in the effectiveness of strategies. Several authors have called for a more detailed description of intervention methodologies and strategies (Hardeman et al, 2000;Tones, 2000;Bartholomew et al, 2001 …”

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confidence: 99%

Netherlands Research programme weight Gain prevention (NHF-NRG): rationale, objectives and strategies

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Objective: To outline the rationale, objectives and strategies used in a systematically designed research programmme to study specific weight gain-inducing behaviours, their social-psychological as well as environmental determinants, and the effects of interventions aimed at the prevention of weight gain. Design: The evidence for potential behavioural determinants and strategies to prevent weight gain was reviewed, and the methods applied within the Netherlands Research programme weight gain prevention (NHF-NRG) project were described. The project is designed according to the Intervention Mapping protocol. Conclusions: Based on the few interventions that were evaluated to date, no robust conclusions can be drawn regarding the effectiveness of obesity prevention. The systematic and multidisciplinary design of the NHF-NRG programme enables the identification of potentially effective methods and strategies for the prevention of weight gain.

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“…Two concepts coexist as regard the evaluation of health interventions; each is justified by the type of approach used in the program [15]. The first school uses the experimental method which is based on epidemiological data and which compares two different populations.…”

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“…It rather advocates a democratically determined efficiency, i.e. by a jury comprising funders, public, participants and experts [15]. If the first approach is said to be a traditional positivist one and covers the field of health education, the second is postmodern and pertains to health promotion [16].…”

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Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Participatory Sex Education on the Dual Prevention of STI/HIV/AIDS and Unwanted Pregnancies among Adolescents in Kinshasa High Schools, DR Congo

Nsakala¹,

Coppieters²,

Kayembé³

2014

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Context: With the view to reorient both STI/HIV/AIDS prevention and adolescents pregnancies, this research study aims at evaluating cognitive and behavioral acquisitions, as well as the process of interactive sex education participatory approach among adolescents in Kinshasa high schools. Methods: Based on a "pre and post" virtually experimental design, two crosswise surveys were conducted in Kinshasa, for six months in 2011-2012 on 484 high school students (pre-survey) and on 441 high school students (post-survey), whose age range from 14 -19 years including both sexes. Two participatory educational talks (PET) "A" and "B", covered weekly in two different schools, were compared to a control group school. The PET "A" consisted of interactive interpersonal communication sessions given by an external expert as a substitute for the life education course in one school. The PET "B" carried out in another school, included more educational talk sessions, led by the external expert and supplemented by a close follow-up of teenagers divided into small groups of 10 participants. The subjects' assessment was based on their knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to STI/HIV/AIDS dual prevention as well as to unwanted pregnancies. Results: The subjects involved in the PET "B" displayed a better/higher performance based on * Corresponding author. G. V. Nsakala et al. 205their knowledge, attitudes and practices related to STI/HIV/AIDS dual prevention and unwanted pregnancies. Broadly speaking, knowledge has been improved 6 times with the PET "B" (OR = 6, 10, IC 95%) (3.24 -11.9), and 3 times with the PET "A" (OR = 3, 45, IC 95%) (1.79 -6.81), compared to control school. Similarly, findings on subjects' attitudes show an improvement rated 12 times with the PET"B" (OR = 11, 99, IC 95%) (5.67 -27.38) and 5 times for the PET "A" (OR = 5.51, IC 95%) (2.54 -12.87). As far as the subjects' practices are concerned, an improvement of 6 more times of protected sexual intercourses with the PET "B" compared with the control school group (OR = 6, 52, IC 95%) (3.60 -12.0). The process assessment records a spontaneous involvement of schools enhanced by the positive contribution of Life Education and Biology teachers; add a massive participation of adolescents who requested permanent PET program. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that school sexual education programs can be improved to increase the quality of apprenticeship. The use of interactive methods and the consideration of the adolescents' specific needs that take into account the gender approach may bring about beneficial advantages on both educational outcomes and reproductive health of adolescents.

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Evaluating health promotion: a tale of three errors

Cited by 107 publications

References 7 publications

Challenges in evaluating childhood bereavement services

Challenges in evaluating childhood bereavement services

Netherlands Research programme weight Gain prevention (NHF-NRG): rationale, objectives and strategies

Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Participatory Sex Education on the Dual Prevention of STI/HIV/AIDS and Unwanted Pregnancies among Adolescents in Kinshasa High Schools, DR Congo

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