Getting started: research in planning and evaluation
Research tools: ways to collect information
Quantitative and qualitative data
How to go about a literature search
Thinking about planning a health promotion project
What information can be included in a community profile
Where to get information for the community profile
Steps for planning a health promotion project
Major steps in planning, sustaining and evaluating a health promotion project
Step 1: identify the issues or health problems in the community
How to find out about community needs
Sharing information from the needs assessment
Step 2: prioritise the issues or health problems
Questions to guide prioritising needs
Funding a health promotion project
Step 3: identify risk factors and set the goal for the project
Step 4: determine contributing factors and state objectives for the project
Analyse the problem to determine risk factors and contributing factors
Developing the project goal and objectives
Step 5: determine what the strategies will be
Questions to ask to help determine strategies
Relationship between the goal, objectives and strategies
Step 6: develop the action plan
Questions to help identify resources
Questions to consider when planning for sustainability
Questions to help plan the documentation
Common methods of recording project activities and progress
Thinking about evaluating the project
The Eight Stage Model of Evaluation
Focus questions for process, impact and outcome evaluations
Linking evaluation questions with the project plan
Collecting information for a process evaluation
Collecting information for impact and outcome evaluations
How to collect the information
When to collect the information for process, impact and outcome evaluation
Step 2: information for process evaluation
Step 3: information for an impact evaluation
Example of process and impact evaluation processes
Step 4: information for an outcome evaluation
Information gathering tools for planning and evaluation
Steps in questionnaire development
Tips on writing a questionnaire
Structured and semi-structured interviews
Some ways to choose the sample
How to analyse qualitative data