Lessons 1-4 (Quiz 1) Flashcards

1
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What are personal examples of evaluation?

A

Birth (check vital signs); Adolescence (achievement tests); Today (looking into the mirror)

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2
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At the most basic level, what is program evaluation?

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  • Applying common sense practice to setting with organized efforts (i.e. programs)
  • A little bit of research and a lot of common sense
  • Systematic investigation to determine the success of a specific program
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3
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What is the “Big Picture” reason to evaluate a program?

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To determine WORTH or MERIT

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4
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What is the business of health education?

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Changing behavior in order to improve quality of life.

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5
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How do we accomplish changing behavior?

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Through health programs (individual or community programs)

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6
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Why should we evaluate programs?

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So we can meet actual needs

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7
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How can an alternative of an existing program be considerably better?

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It could have a more profound impact and/or cost less while having a similar impact

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8
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What are two examples of research abuses of the past? (reasons why we have ethical rules in place now)

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Nazi wartime experiements and Tuskegee Syphyliis study

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9
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What was significant about the National Research act of 1974?

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The NRA mandated the formation of the Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and submitted the belmont report

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10
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What are the Belmont’s Report’s 3 ethical principles?

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  1. Respect for persons
  2. Beneficence
  3. Justice
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11
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What is meant by ‘respect for persons’?

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  • Recognition of the personal dignity and autonomy of individuals
  • special protection of those persons who are immature or incapacitated
    • Underage
    • Mental/intellectual disabilities
    • Prison inmates
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What is meant by beneficence?

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Maximizing any benefits

Minimizing (or avoiding) possible risks

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13
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What is meant by justice?

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Ensures the procedure are administered/distributed fairly

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14
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What are the 3 major components of informed consent?

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  1. Informative
  2. Comprehension
  3. Voluntary Involvement
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15
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When is consent considered voluntary?

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  • Participants are able to consent
  • They are free from coercion
  • They comprehend the risks and benefits involved
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16
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What is program planning?

A

Creating change; The “business” of health education is changing behaviors.
- Decision making process

20
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What are the three Fs of program planning?

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  1. Fluidity
  2. Flexibility
  3. Functionality
21
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What is meant by fluidity?

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  • Sequential process
  • Steps build upon one another
    (strong foundation is essential)
21
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What is meant by flexibility?

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Adapting the planning as the process unfolds.

22
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What is meant by functionality?

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The plan must relate to the business of health education.

- Outcome of planning is improved health conditions.

22
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What are some common triggers to begin the program planing process?

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  • Funding announcement
  • Staff interests in area
  • Strategic planning process
  • News coverage
  • Local activism
  • Recommendations from evaluation
23
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What should drive program planning?

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NEED

  • Should drive ALL health program planning
  • Gives insight
23
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What factor/task/issue propels the planning process?

A

NEED

24
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What are the five factors common to all planning models?

(hint: NSPIE)

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  1. Needs assessment
  2. Setting goals & objectives
  3. Planning or development
  4. Implementation
  5. Evaluate
25
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Before developing and/or implementing a program what decision must be made?

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Is there a need to be met?

  • who decides?
  • What information demonstrates community need?
  • how do we best target the primary problem areas?
26
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What is a consideration about defining a need?

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We draw different conclusions about needs as we move from community to community

27
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When can needs not be defined?

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Need cannot be defined without regard to social context in which a person or group lives and works.

28
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What are 3 characteristics about people defining their own needs?

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  1. Not always aware they have a need
  2. Could deny a need (alcoholics)
  3. Could misidentify a need (adolescents may desire drugs when true need is social skills)
29
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Does geography equal a “sense of community”?

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No

30
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What are 3 ways in which assessing need practically helps us?

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  1. Resource allocation
  2. Program planning, development, and evaluation
  3. Provides information for tailoring a program to specific target population
31
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What are the seven phases of the PRECEDE-PROCEDE model? (acronym hint: SEEIIPI)

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  1. Social assessment
  2. Epidemiological, behavioral, and environmental assessment
  3. Educational & ecological assessment
  4. Intervention Alignment
  5. Implementation
  6. Process evaluation
  7. Impact and outcome evaluation