Randomised Controlled Trials of full vs. Lite version of the app yielded confusing yet intriguing results. New questions were generated for qualitative research in the next phase of the study.Presented by Yitong Huang (Echo) on 25 June 2014 at Festival for Digital Health, London.
A description of the development of a scale for measuring consumer engagement with health content on websites and other digital media. We define engagement as the process of involving users in health content in ways that motivate and lead to health behavior change. Significant predictive validity with behavioral intentions and readiness to act was found in nine health content areas. The eHealth Engagement Scale may prove to be an important mediator of user retention of information, intentions to change, and ultimately efforts to undertake and achieve behavior change.
Contribution of Multiple Assessment Methodologies in a Theory-driven Evaluati...JSI
Poster from the Innovations for MNCH Initiative team at the 2015 Evaluation Conference, summarizing research methods for evaluating the impact of an mHealth intervention with frontline health workers in five districts in Ghana.
Learn more about the project at http://www.innovationsformnch.org
A description of the development of a scale for measuring consumer engagement with health content on websites and other digital media. We define engagement as the process of involving users in health content in ways that motivate and lead to health behavior change. Significant predictive validity with behavioral intentions and readiness to act was found in nine health content areas. The eHealth Engagement Scale may prove to be an important mediator of user retention of information, intentions to change, and ultimately efforts to undertake and achieve behavior change.
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Poster from the Innovations for MNCH Initiative team at the 2015 Evaluation Conference, summarizing research methods for evaluating the impact of an mHealth intervention with frontline health workers in five districts in Ghana.
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Maternal Health Care Utilization and Subsequent Contraceptive UseMEASURE Evaluation
Findings from research conducted using secondary data from Kenya and Zambia to determine if there is a causal relationship between maternal health care utlization and susequent contraceptive use.
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Global Health Workshop: Methods For Implementation Science in Global Health.
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The scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based practices into routine practice and hence improve the quality and effectiveness of health services
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This presentation aims to explore the concept of shared governance in nursing and discuss the principles and models underpinning practice. It also aims to present the obstacles to effective implementation.
Science Forum 2013 (www.scienceforum13.org)
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There needs to be a seperate response to each peer's posting and it needs to be supported with at least two references for each peer's posting.
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What differences do you note between efficacy research and program evaluation?
The difference between efficacy research and program evaluation is the scientific aspect. Program evaluations “primary purpose is to provide data that can be used by decision makers to make valued judgements about the processes and outcomes of a program (Sherpis, Young, & Daniels, 2010). Therefore, letting the agency know what needs to be changed in the program to make the program effective to their clientele. Efficacy research based on empirical data which is an essential to the scientific method. Therefore, efficacy research is where clients are in controlled environments and interventions can be tested.
What are the key strengths of efficacy research?
The key strength of efficacy research is the scientific process. In the article, The Efficacy of Child Parent Relationship Therapy for Adopted Children with Attachment Disruptions, the researcher wanted to test the child parent relationship therapy (CPRT) which “is an empirically based, manualized counseling intervention for children presenting with a range of social, emotional, and behavioral issues” (Cranes-Holt, & Bratton, 2014). The purpose was to test this theory on adoptive families. Thus, a control group was designed to test CPRT. The researcher used the Child Behavior Checklist-Parent Version (CBCL) and the Measurement of Empathy in Adult-Child Interaction (MEACI). These are both empirical test, the CBCL measures the parents of the child’s behavior problems; whereas, the MEACI is an operational measure that defines empathy between the parents and the child while playing. These tests are conducted in control environments where no outside distractions are permitted and the hypothesis of the researcher can be tested.
What are the key strengths of program evaluation?
The key strength of the program evaluation is the clients are the people who are participating in the program evaluation and whether the interventions used are effective for them. Thus, this lets the research know what changes are needed for the agency to be successful. Therefore, surveys are used to collect data for the participants, the parents, are people that work with the clients or caregivers with the client. This give the ideas of opinions of the people directly or indirectly receiving services. In the article, Evaluating Batter Counseling Programs: A Difficult Task Showing Some Effects and Implications, a multisite evaluation was done and the participants were “administered a uniform set of background questionnaire, personality inventory (MCMI-III; Millon, 1994), and alcohol test (MAST; Selzer, 1971)” (Gondolf, 2004). Therefore, given the research opinions of the clientele over the four sites and let the researcher know what treatment is working and not working.
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Blue-Howells, J., McGuire, J., & Nakashima, J. (2008). Co-location of health care services for homeless veterans: a case study of innovation in program implementation. Social work in health care, 47(3), 219-231.
Output
Integrating patient care
Communication and collaboration between workers hence resulting to communities of practicing clinicians
Attracting new patients to GLA
Funding a two-year pilot grant
Effective process for psychiatric screening for homeless patients
Outcomes
Homeless project were integrated
The issues of homeless veterans were addressed due to institutional barriers
There was creation of coalition and linking the project to legitimate VA-wide goals
Good sustained program maintenance, process evaluation and encouraging development of communities.
Activities
Building a coalition of decision makers
Introduction of a new integrated program
Inputs
The decision to implement
Initial implementation
Sustained maintenance
Termination or transformation
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Evaluation of the program is usually done to in order to determine the quality of the program, how effective the program is and how the program is performing. This can help to know if the program is making a significant difference among the targeted people. It can also assist to know if the program is functioning or not. This paper therefore seeks to evaluate the program which is assisting the homeless people within the community.
The two program evaluation questions are: what is the reach of the program? And what has been the impact of the program on the homeless people? The answers to these questions would elicit both qualitative and quantitative results. Therefore, the program evaluation will require both quantitative and qualitative data collection plan. This is because the use of mixed-method approach is convenient since the results and findings would be reliable (Creswell, 2017). After identifying the evaluation program questions, the next step will be to come up with plan of evaluating a program. The plan should consist of methods of collecting data, evidences, the person responsible and the duration.
Program Evaluation Question
Evidence
Methods and sources of collecting data
Person in charge
Duration
1. What is the reach of the program?
Number of building materials distributed
Records of the program
Robert
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2. What has been the impact of the program on the homeless people?
Number of people resettled
Number of people not yet re.
The explosion in the number of applications (apps) designed for the medical and wellness sectors has been noted by many. Recently we have seen increased presence of truly medical apps, in addition to consumer health and wellbeing apps, designed for clinical professionals and patients with medical conditions.
Consumer based mHealth apps typically allow people to do old things in new ways, such as recording health measures digitally rather than on paper. We see this also with medical apps, where increases in the quality and efficiency of existing health care models provide clinical staff with digital tools that replace paper based documentation. In rare and exciting cases we are also seeing mHealth applications that are doing things in entirely new ways to drive real innovation in health care delivery through mobile devices.
The aim of the tutorial is to highlight real world, high impact mobile research that is relevant to the key discipline of Mobile HCI. Thus, the tutorial will be application rather than academically focused. The tutorial will highlight the wide range of mHealth applications available that go far beyond trackers and behavior change tools and encourage researchers to look beyond consumer applications in their research. Four key areas of mHealth applications will be covered including Apps for the HealthyWell, mHealth in Hospitals, Practice and Clinical Apps and Patient Apps and will cover applications for health assessment, treatment and triage, behavior change, chronic illness, mental health, adolescent health, rehabilitation and age care with a focus on the need for rigorous evaluation and efficacy analysis.
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Evaluation can be defined as the methods that are utilized to determine the effectiveness of a program or service that is required and likely to be used, whether it is conducted as planned, or whether it helps the purpose, objectives, and goals (Andrews et al., 2014). The main evaluation method that will be used to assess the performance and success of this breast cancer awareness program in the community of African American women in Baltimore County is the formative evaluation. The formative evaluation exercise will be undertaken with the purpose of assessing the strengths and weaknesses of materials, or campaign strategies before implementation. Thus, part of the activities of the valuation will include pretesting. The evaluation will allow for the needed corrections before the full effort goes forward. Its main objective will be to increase the likelihood for program success before the communication activity begins. The procedures and tasks involved in implementing the program will also be examined. This form of evaluation will also explore the administrative and organizational elements of the program (Moore et al., 2014). The formative evaluation exercise will begin with the assessment of the needs of the cancer awareness program. The evaluation process will take place throughout the programming processes.
Formative evaluation will be ongoing and will offer information to the planning and implementation team. The primary purpose of this type of assessment will be to strengthen or improve the program being assessed and to determine the quality of its implementation. This medium will give room for the improvement of the program while the activities are in progress. The health promotion program will utilize the formative evaluation to understand the perspectives in which the interventions will take place and the creation of consensus on goals (Tolma et al., 2014). This medium will make it possible to effectively evaluate the participants' responses towards the program and improve it.
Furthermore, the formative evaluation will provide insights into the specific behaviors of concern and the causes of such behaviors concerning the breast cancer awareness among African American women. In so doing, the program implementers will effectively identify the community attitudes that can inhibit or promote the program goals. Part of the evaluation activities will entail identification of resources that are available to the program. Thus, the formative evaluation will be critical to improving the relevance, sustainability, as well as the efficacy of the community-based breast cancer awareness program.
Evaluation Theory
This cancer awareness program will be guided by the theoretical concepts of the social cognitive theory. According to this theory, people’s perception of their capacity to undertake an activity, and their anticipations that the recommended cour.
Community Engagement of Sexual & Gender Minority PopulationsCHICommunications
This session, tailored for intermediate learners, offers a deep dive into patient and community engagement in health research, specifically focusing on its pivotal role in driving policy change. Learners will emerge equipped with:
🟠 A comprehensive understanding of the benefits of patient and community engagement in health research.
🟠 The ability to articulate the principles of authentic patient and community engagement.
🟠 A clear definition of intersectionality and practical insights into incorporating its principles into their patient and community engagement strategies.
🟠 An appreciation for the pivotal role of advocacy and the development of public- and stakeholder-facing materials in research programs aimed at influencing health policy.
Samantha Harden discuss provides an overview of the RE_AIM framework which evaluates the effectiveness of interventions based on the following five dimensions:
Reach into the target population
Effectiveness or efficacy
Adoption by target settings, institutions and staff
Implementation - consistency and cost of delivery of intervention
Maintenance of intervention effects in individuals and settings over time.
We will also practice using RE-AIM in planning, implementation, and evaluation and share resources available on RE-AIM.org.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the five RE-AIM dimensions
2. Practice using RE-AIM for planning, implementation, and evaluation
3. Explore available resources found at RE-AIM.org
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Programmatic purposes and outcomes
Select and discuss three programmatic purposes and outcomes that should be evaluated. In your discussion, provide the rationale for the purposes and outcomes selected. It will be assumed the purposes and outcomes selected were influenced by the program being evaluated.
The program that I will be discussing is human service programs. In the abiding endeavor to enhance human service programs, service providers, policy makers and funders are more and more recognizing the significance of thorough program evaluations. They want to know what the programs achieve, what they spend, and how they must be operated to attain maximum cost efficiency. They want to recognize which programs function for which groups, and they need endings based on proof, as opposed to impassioned pleas and testimonials. The purposes should state the extensive, extensive range result that maintains the mission of the program, including content information areas, performance prospects, and values anticipated of program graduates. Purposes can be stated in wider and more stirring language than outcomes that have to be measurable and specific. Outcome is the reason nonprofit organizations struggle to build capacity and deliver programs. Measurement of outcomes is the systematic way of assessing the extent to which a program has attained its intended results.
The programmatic purposes and outcomes that should be evaluated include:
Programmatic purposes
· To monitor functions for the Health and Human Services department.
Without departments, the purpose or goals of human services would be very hard to fulfill. Human services is a very large sector that entails a wide range of skills, knowledge and disciplines focused on enhancing the well being of human both collectively and individually. Just like there are a lot of sectors in human services, so too there are a huge variety of functions of the human service programs that need to be evaluated so as to accomplish the purpose of the program (Connell, Kubisch, Schorr & Weiss, 1995). One of the programmatic purposes of human service programs is to monitor functions for the Health and Human Services department. Any department or even sector requires frequent checks to make sure that it is functioning well and according to the purpose. This purpose is very crucial in the execution of the human service program goals. It needs to be evaluated to make sure that the functions of the health and human service department are in line with the programmatic purposes of the program.
· Assessing internal control over compliance requirements to provide reasonable assurance.
The compliance requirements are very crucial in every program as they make sure that the program is in line with its goals and makes sure it works towards achieving its stipulated outcomes. This purpose needs to be evaluated to m ...
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http://www.equitesante.org/implementation-science-methods-in-global-health/
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Evaluating a mobile app for healthier snacking behaviours
1. The role of regulatory
fit in using a mobile app
for healthier snacking
behaviours
25 June 2014, Festival of Digital Health
Yitong Huang
MSc Social Cognition: Research and Applications
UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Supervised by Prof. Anne Hsu & Prof. Ann Blandford
2. Conclusion
Traditional method like Randomised Controlled
Trials can provide a rigorous evaluation of the
overall effect of technology-based health
interventions;
However, it is important, both research-wise
and design-wise, to contextualise user data
through qualitative analysis and structural
modelling of individual differences;
The success of persuasive technologies requires
a regulatory fit between the user and the
application.
3. Introduction
iCrave - a mobile app designed in a
previous study (Hsu et al., 2014);
It helps users curtail snack cravings and
improve snack choices through imagery;
Allows the user to “save” cravings, or opt
for healthy snack;
The user can recall how many snacks
they have eaten or saved in the past.
My research focus:
A more rigorous method to evaluate iCrave
and other persuasive health technologies
4. Conventional Evaluation Method
–Randomised Controlled Trials
Weekly slots since 16 Apr.2014
81 pre-study questionnaire responses; 34 completed
the 1-week experiment and post-study
questionnaires
Control(N=17) iCrave (N=17)
Mean Std Mean Std
Age (years) 22.35 2.50 23.17 5.53
BMI 22.99 3.14 22.63 4.38
Crave for snacks (times/day) 2.88 1.69 2.71 1.26
Crave for unhealthy snacks
(times/day)
2.29 1.65 2.18 1.13
Eat snacks(times/day) 2.29 1.49 2.47 1.00
Eat unhealthy snacks 1.82 1.43 1.88 .99
Demographics & Baseline Snacking Behaviours
Control iCrave
5. Repeated Measures ANOVA of Snack Consumption
Source df SS MS F p
Between Subject
Condition 1 7.736 7.736 1.215 n.s.
Within Subject
Day
Day * Condition
Data source (survey vs. app)
Data source * Condition
Day * Data source
Day * Data source * Condition
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16.913
5.403
9.282
2.026
3.238
5.001
2.819
5.403
9.282
.338
.540
4.364
2.460
4.490
7.714
.614
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.042
.009
n.s.
n.s.
Snack consumption decreased during the
week for both groups, with steeper slope in
control group
app data tended to underreport snacking,
especially for the experiment group
7. New Questions for Qualitative
Analysis
In what ways do users find the app useful or not useful?
Does it work in the same way for everyone?
What factors moderate and mediate the effectiveness
of the application?
Moderator: individual differences (e.g. motivational and
cognitive styles, personality etc.)
Mediator: subjective user experience
8. Promotion Focus
• Gain vs. Nongain
• Approach strategies
• Errors of omission
Prevention Focus
• Loss vs. Nonloss
• Avoidance strategies
• Error of commission
Regulatory Fit Theory (Higgins, 1997)
“Regulatory focus orientation”:
people’s tendency toward promotion
versus prevention focus when they
consider what goals to pursue and how
to pursue goals
Dispositional difference in regulatory
orientation can be operationalized by
BAS/BIS scales (Carver & White, 1994)
Regulatory fit occurs when the
regulatory focus of the individual is
sustained by that of the task framing
* BAS: Behavioural Activation System; BIS: Behavioural Inhibition System
e.g. eaten snacks;
imagery
e.g. saved cravings
9. •It was just recording
my snacks, without
changing my habits
•More creative
feature/ aesthetically
pleasing interface
•Remind me there is a
healthy/save snack
option
•Looking at “save”
history makes me feel
good
•Not strict enough
•Should automate
reminder
•The imagery doesn’t
stop me from craving
•Distract from craving
•Keep track of my junk
food habits
useless useful
Promotion Focus (Gain Framing)
Prevention Focus (Loss framing)
Qualitative Data Analysis Framework
10. Future direction
Structural equation modelling of the influence
of “fit” on the health efficacy of persuasive
technologies, mediated by the subjective user
experience.
Decreased Strength
of craving
Decreased
impulsive eating
Improved control
efficacy
App
Effectiveness
E
E
E
Regulatory
Fit
User’s motivational
style* perceived
regulatory focus of the
technology
Subjective User
Experience
D
D
DImproved snack
choices
E
11. Conclusion
Traditional method like Randomised Controlled
Trials can provide a rigorous evaluation of the
overall effect of technology-based health
interventions;
However, it is important, both research-wise
and design-wise, to contextualise user data
through qualitative analysis and structural
modelling of individual differences;
The success of persuasive technologies requires
a regulatory fit between the user and the
application.
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Editor's Notes
Frame goals and outcomes in terms of gain vs. nongain;
Initiate acts to avoid missing out opportunities to accomplish something
Maintain status quo to avoid making mistakes
Both promotion and prevention focused individuals can have strong and weak craving for food, although the underlying mechanism might be different. Prevention – eat to get rid of negative feeling, negative reinforcement; Promotion – eat because of the positive reinforcement. But research shows reward sensitivity correlate with food craving postiviely
When users comment on app features, both usefulness and unusefulness of the app can be framed in promotion (gain) or prevention (loss) framing.
Informed by the qualitative analysis, the future direction would be use structural model to predict what intervention(s) work best for users of a certain personality
Axis: Time before, during;
Line: Condition: iCrave, Saver