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Title:
Process evaluation for public health interventions and research
Author:
Steckler, Allan B.
ISBN:
9780787959760
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
San Francisco ; [Great Britain] : Jossey-Bass, c2002.
Physical Description:
xxviii, 400 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Machine derived contents note: Foreword xi -- Barbara A. Israel -- Preface xv -- The Editors xxiii -- The Contributors xxv -- -- 1 Process Evaluation for Public Health Interventions and Research: -- An Overview 1 -- Laura Linnan and Allan Steckler -- Brief History and Review Gaps in Current Knowledge Advancing Future Public -- Health-Linked Process Evaluation Efforts Summary -- -- PART ONE: COMMUNITY-RELATED PROCESS EVALUATION EFFORTS 25 -- -- 2 Process Evaluation of an Asset-Based Teen Pregnancy -- Prevention Project: Healthy, Empowered, and Responsible -- Teens of Oklahoma City 31 -- Michelle C. Kegler, Vicki Harris Wyatt, and Sharon Rodine -- Larger Evaluation of the HEART of OKC Program Neighborhood Mobilization -- Action Plan Implementation Lessons Learned About Process Evaluation -- Contribution -- -- -- -- 3 Process Evaluation of Implementation and Dissemination of a -- Sun Safety Program at Swimming Pools 58 -- Karen Glanz, May Rose L. Isnec, Allan Geller, and Kathy J. Spangler -- Context of the Larger Pool Cool Project Main Trial Phase Goals and Methods -- Results Pilot Dissemination Phase Goals and Methods Results Lessons -- Leared About Process Evaluation Conclusion -- Appendix A: Pool Cool Monitoring Form -- Appendix B: Site Visit Protocol and Forms -- -- 4 Process Evaluation of the Adolescent Social Action Program -- in New Mexico 83 -- Deborah L. Helitzer and Soo-Jin Yoon -- The Adolescent Social Action Program Program Evaluation Design and Methods -- Results Lessons Learned About Process Evaluation Conclusions -- Appendix A: Facilitator Checkoff List -- Appendix B: ASAP Session V Observation Form -- -- 5 Process Evaluation of the Church-Based PRAISE! Project: -- Partnership to Reach African Americans to Increase -- Smart Eating 115 -- Alice Ammerman -- PRAISE! Project Description Theoretical Basis of the Intervention Process -- Evaluation Context, Design, and Methods Research Questions Process [ata -- Design, Sample, and Data Collection Results Strengths of the PRAISE! Project -- Process Evaluation Lessons Learned About Process Evaluation Summary -- Appendix A: PRAISEI Project Intervention Follow-Up Form for HAT Leader: Food Event -- Appendix B: PRAISE! Food Event: Measurement Group Only -- Appendix C: County Coordinator Checklist -- -- -- PART TWO: WORKSITE-RELATED PROCESS EVALUATION EFFORTS 151 -- -- 6 The Working Well Trial: Selected Process -- Evaluation Results 155 -- Laura Linnan, Beti Thompson, and Erin N. Kobetz -- Description of the Working Well Trial Process Evaluation Results Strengths -- and Limitations Lessons Learned About Process Evaluation Conclusion -- Appendix A: Working Well Study Investigators and Committee Members -- Appendix B: Planned Activity Form (PAF) -- Appendix C: Activity Closeout Form -- -- -- -- 7 Health Works for Women: Process Evaluation Results 184 -- Irene Tessaro, Marci Kramish Campbell, and Salli Benedict -- Description of Health Works for Women Process Evaluation Lessons Learned -- About Process Evaluation Conclusion -- Appendix A: Process Measure for Intervention Worksites Only -- -- -- PART THREE: SCHOOL-RELATED PROCESS EVALUATION EFFORTS 205 -- -- 8 Safer Choices, a School-Based HIV, STD, and Pregnancy -- Prevention Program for Adolescents: Process Evaluation Issues -- Related to Curriculum Implementation 209 -- Christine M. Markham, Karen Basen-Engquist, Karin K. Coyle, -- Robert C. Addy, and Guy S. Parcel -- Background Overview of the Safer Choices Curriculum Process Evaluation -- Analyses and Results Discussion Lessons Learned About Process Evaluation -- Areas for Further Research Conclusion -- Appendix A: Teacher Survey: Follow-Up -- Appendix B: Teacher Curriculum Log: Ninth Grade -- Appendix C: Safer Choices Observation Form: Class 3 Refusal Skills -- -- 9 Using Children as Change Agents to Increase Fruit and -- Vegetable Consumption Among Lower-Income African -- American Parents: Process Evaluation Results of the Bringing It -- Home Program 249 -- Marsha Davis, Tom Baranowski, Marilyn Hughes, Carla L. Warneke, -- Carl de Moor, and Rebecca M. Mullis -- Design of the Bringing It Home Program Process Evaluation Metlhods -- Results Lessons Learned About Process Evaluation Conclusions -- -- 10 Lessons Learned from the Pathways Process Evaluation 268 -- Allan Steckler, Becky Ethelbah, Catherine Jane Martin, Dawn C). Stewart, -- Maria Nahmabin Pardilla, Joel Gittelsohn, Elaine . Stone, David C. Fenn, -- Mary Smyth, and Maihan B. Vu -- Description of the Pathways Program Process Evaluation Methods Summary of -- Process Evaluation Results Lessons Learned About Process Evaluation -- Appendix A: Fourth-Grade Kitchen Contact Form -- -- -- -- PART FOUR: NATIONAL OR STATE PROCESS EVALUATION EFFORTS 289 -- -- 11 STEPES: The Development and Testing of a Database Program -- Monitoring Tool 293 -- Therese M. Blaine, D. Knight Guire, and Jean Forster -- Description of the Overall Evaluation Program What Is STEPES? Program -- Monitoring and Evaluation Functions Formative Development Process -- Evaluation of the STEPES Tool Methods Study Design and Results Lessons -- Learned About Process Evaluation Conclusion Implications for Future Practice -- Contribution to Process Evaluation Literature -- -- 12 Developing a Process to Evaluate a National Injury Prevention -- Program: The Indian Health Service Injury Prevention Program 321 -- Carolyn E. Crump and Robert J. Letourneau -- Evaluation Frameworks Injury-Specific Program Guidelines The Indiin Health -- Service Injury Prevention Program Program Evaluation Focus, Approach, and -- Tools The Program Stage of Development Assessment Process Lessons -- Leared About Process Evaluation Limitations of the Program Stage of Development -- Assessment Process Implications for Research Summary -- Appendix A: Program Stage of Development Assessment Tool -- -- 13 Tracking the Process and Progress of the National Folic -- Acid Campaign 358 -- Katherine Lyon Daniel, Christine E. Prue, and Michele Volansky -- Partners Join Forces to Reach Women Overview of the National Folic Acid -- Campaign Campaign Objectives Audience Segmentation Campaign -- Implementation Process Evaluation Approach Process Evaluation Methods -- Process Evaluation Results Discussion Lessons Learned About Process -- Evaluation Conclusion -- Appendix A: Combined Communication Exposure Index, Folic Acid Campaign -- -- Name Index 385 -- -- Subject Index 391.
Abstract:
Process evaluation is an important component of any programme evaluation or intervention research effort. In the tradition of "Designing and Conducting Health Surveys", by Lu Ann Aday, this is a resource for scholars, trainers, and students of public health.
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