Measuring Program Outcome

Abstract

The Progress Evaluation Scales (PES) provide an efficient measuring devicefor evaluating current functioning, setting treatment goals, and assessing change over time in clinically relevant aspects of personal, social, and community adjustment. The PES can be completed by patients, significant others, and therapists, making it possible to obtain various points of view of the outcome of mental health services. This article describes the seven domains measured by the PES and the underlying dimensions they were designed to tap, and presents the generalizability, validity, and usefulness of the scales as applied to an adult mental health center population.With the advent of the deinstitutionalization over the past twõ ~ decades and the massive shift of care to local communities, a growing clamor has developed for satisfactory methods to evaluate the quality of programs and services rendered at the community level. While such needs have been expressed from time to time by professionals and AUTHORS' NOTE: Financial asslstancefor this project was received for t wo years from a 314(d) Federal Grant and for six years from Michigan's Department

A Psychometric Investigation of the Ohio Scales, Short Form, Problem Severity Domain, Youth- and Caregiver-Report Versions

“…Ogles et al (2000) also conducted additional analyses to investigate the extent to which the Ohio Scales were able to detect change over time. This was done by comparing one sample of case manager change scores on the Problem Severity and Functioning total scales to change scores on the Progress Evaluation Scales (PES; Ihilevich, Gleser, Gritter, Kroman, & Watson, 1981; higher values indicating both higher levels of functioning and lower levels of problems) twice over a four-month time period. The PES is a well-established outcome measure for detecting change over time.…”