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Evidence-based practice criteria’s effect on the implementation of the family first prevention services act in Nebraska and Colorado 循证实践标准对内布拉斯加州和科罗拉多州实施家庭第一预防服务法案的影响

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Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2024-03-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102428

Charity Carmody

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What makes community sports programs successful? A group concept mapping study to identify effective elements 是什么让社区体育计划取得成功？通过小组概念图研究确定有效要素

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Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102420

Güven Alarslan , Dico de Jager , Sabina Super , Ivo van Hilvoorde , Maria Koelen , Kirsten Verkooijen

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Exploring teachers’ perspectives on movement integration using a job-embedded professional development intervention 利用工作嵌入式专业发展干预措施探索教师对运动整合的看法

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Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102419

Kristina Maria Sobolewski , Larissa T. Lobo , Alexandra L. Stoddart , Serene Kerpan

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Implementing a mental health app library in primary care: A feasibility study 在初级保健中实施心理健康应用程序库：可行性研究

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Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102413

Julie Lane , Luiza Maria Manceau , Pier-Luc de Chantal , Alexandre Chagnon , Michael Cardinal , François Lauzier-Jobin , Sèverine Lanoue

{"title":"Implementing a mental health app library in primary care: A feasibility study","authors":"Julie Lane , Luiza Maria Manceau , Pier-Luc de Chantal , Alexandre Chagnon , Michael Cardinal , François Lauzier-Jobin , Sèverine Lanoue","doi":"10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102413","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Confronted with a wide range of digital health tools (DHT), professionals and patients need guidance to use these tools correctly and optimize health management. In the fall of 2020, a DHT library developed by Quebec-based company TherAppX was implemented in 22 institutions. The library was designed to enable healthcare professionals to use DHT in clinical care. The purpose of the current study was to assess the feasibility of implementing the library, including user experience, changes in DHT recommendation habits, and factors that helped or hindered the implementation process. A multi-methods design focusing on secondary use of quantitative data collected by TherAppX and semi-structured interviews with users was employed. While the quantitative analyses indicated infrequent use of the library, qualitative analyses highlighted several factors that hindered its implementation, including certain library and user characteristics and the unprecedented context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the quantitative analyses confirmed interest in DHT and their usefulness during follow-ups. The results revealed a marginally significant pre-post changes in the frequency with which DHT were recommended. This study helped identify areas for improvements and indicates that further evaluation is needed. Future implementations would benefit from ensuring optimal conditions for a successful implementation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48046,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation and Program Planning","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102413"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149718924000144/pdfft?md5=8254ca657073ba68f8e3c89754a1c928&pid=1-s2.0-S0149718924000144-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140103520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A realist evaluation of a multi-component program with disengaged students 对一项针对失学学生的多成分计划进行现实主义评估

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Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102417

Emily C. Owen , Camilla J. Knight , Denise M. Hill

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Protocol for an interview-based method for mapping mental models using causal-loop diagramming and realist interviewing 利用因果循环图法和现实主义访谈法绘制心智模式的访谈方法规程

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Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102412

Erin S. Kenzie , Wayne Wakeland , Antonie Jetter , Kristen Hassmiller Lich , Mellodie Seater , Rose Gunn , Melinda M. Davis

{"title":"Protocol for an interview-based method for mapping mental models using causal-loop diagramming and realist interviewing","authors":"Erin S. Kenzie , Wayne Wakeland , Antonie Jetter , Kristen Hassmiller Lich , Mellodie Seater , Rose Gunn , Melinda M. Davis","doi":"10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102412","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Causal-loop diagramming, a method from system dynamics, is increasingly used in evaluation to describe individuals’ understanding of how policies or programs do or could work (\"mental models\"). The use of qualitative interviews to inform model development is common, but guidance for how to design and conduct these interviews to elicit causal information in participant mental models is scant. A key strength of semi-structured qualitative interviews is that they let participants speak freely; they are not, however, designed to elicit causal information. Moreover, much of human communication about mental models—particularly larger causal structures such as feedback loops—is implicit. In qualitative research, part of the skill and art of effective interviewing and analysis involves listening for information that is expressed implicitly. Similarly, a skilled facilitator can recognize and inquire about implied causal structures, as is commonly done in group model building. To standardize and make accessible these approaches, we have formalized a protocol for designing and conducting semi-structured interviews tailored to eliciting mental models using causal-loop diagramming. We build on qualitative research methods, system dynamics, and realist interviewing. This novel, integrative method is designed to increase transparency and rigor in the use of interviews for system dynamics and has a variety of potential applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48046,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation and Program Planning","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102412"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140095865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Comparison of industrial engineering programs in Colombia based on standardized test results 基于标准化测试结果的哥伦比亚工业工程专业比较

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Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2024-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102415

Adel Mendoza-Mendoza , Daniel Mendoza-Casseres , Enrique De La Hoz-Domíngez

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Schools within the uMgungundlovu district: Principals’ perspectives on categorization and school functionality 乌姆贡德洛武地区的学校：校长对分类和学校功能的看法

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Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2024-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102418

Zakhele Dennis Nzuza

{"title":"Schools within the uMgungundlovu district: Principals’ perspectives on categorization and school functionality","authors":"Zakhele Dennis Nzuza","doi":"10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102418","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102418","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>School categorization has impaired the functionality of schools and led to dysfunctional teaching and learning processes. This study explores principals' perspectives on categorization and school functionality. The existing literature on school categorization focuses on the geographical areas of schools and resource allocation, ignoring the complexities of learner behavior and other dynamics within schools. Based on a qualitative case study within an interpretive paradigm, this study was conducted in the uMgungundlovu district of KwaZulu-Natal using semi-structured interviews, document reviews, and observations with five purposefully selected principals of five primary schools. Data analysis revealed that schools were paying significant maintenance and bills to sustain themselves without sufficient funding. In addition, the quintile classification indicates that the socioeconomic status of schools weakens the institution's ability to provide intensive development and growth for administrative and learning needs and to the extent that schools generate their resources for the reconstruction of structures and facilities, affecting the well-being of teachers and learners, as well as external factors such as professional development and academic training, which have a significant impact on the delivery of quality education.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48046,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation and Program Planning","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102418"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149718924000193/pdfft?md5=50ad058937819282dacc2f438fc87e5c&pid=1-s2.0-S0149718924000193-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140010999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evaluating the impact of using storytelling and visual multimedia music intervention to improve knowledge of the Child Rights Act and reduce the propensity to engage in child marriage 评估利用讲故事和可视多媒体音乐干预来提高对《儿童权利法》的认识和减少童婚倾向的影响

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Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2024-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102416

Ngozi Udengwu , Ujah Marian Ofunu , Thomas Imoudu Gomment , Chinonso Aniagu , Peter N. Nwokolo , Ayokunle Oluwadamilare Ikusemiju , Verlumun Celestine Gever

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Evaluation of the public policy impacts on Monkeypox in Brazil 评估公共政策对巴西猴痘的影响

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Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2024-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102414

Carlos Jefferson de Melo Santos , Angelo Marcio Oliveira Sant’Anna

{"title":"Evaluation of the public policy impacts on Monkeypox in Brazil","authors":"Carlos Jefferson de Melo Santos , Angelo Marcio Oliveira Sant’Anna","doi":"10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102414","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102414","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Brazil ranked third in the number of Monkeypox infected worldwide in early September 2022 and eighth in multiple deaths. Brazilian Ministry of Health prepared a public policy to face the smallpox outbreak. This paper aims to analyze the governmental public policy’ impacts on Monkeypox using survival analysis. The information in the database was collected from epidemiological bulletins on the official websites of the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO). The survival analysis with parametric statistical analysis, semiparametric with Cox regression, and nonparametric analysis were used. The inference of causality was perceived by the impact caused by the national public policy with the proportional reduction in the number of cases in the treatment group (Chi-sq = 117.783, p < 0.001), contrary to what was perceived in the control group, as well as survival about the time of the states that elaborated their plans based on what was made available by the government. The need to evaluate government projects should be within the scope of project management in Brazilian states and provide for more assertive decision-making in the fight against smallpox</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48046,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation and Program Planning","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102414"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140003097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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