Right of the Citizen and Evaluation of Health Services: theoretical-Practical Approaches

Kerber, Nalú Pereira da Costa; Kirchhof, Ana Lúcia Cardoso; Cézar-Vaz, Marta Regina; Silveira, Rosemary Silva da

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“…This interpretive evaluation provides valuable insights into how to facilitate educational programs for older adults and meet expectations through addressing their needs and desires during the experience. Our work agrees with other studies on the usefulness of examining program implementation processes from the perspective of different individuals [47].…”

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Interpretive Qualitative Evaluation Informs Research Participation and Advocacy Training Program for Seniors: A Pilot Study

Bay,

Tian,

Hackney

et al. 2023

Healthcare

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Background: An 8-week educational intervention co-taught by medical students and faculty was designed to foster communication between clinical researchers and populations of interest to ultimately increase participation in clinical research by older adults, including underrepresented groups. Weekly topics focused on age-related changes and health conditions, socio-contextual factors impacting aging populations, and wellness strategies. Objectives: To evaluate the successes and weaknesses of an educational intervention aimed at increasing the participation of older adults in clinical research. Design: A focus group was assembled after an 8-week educational intervention, titled DREAMS, to obtain participants’ feedback on the program, following a pre-formulated interview guide. Settings: Participants were interviewed in a health center office environment in the United States of America in April of 2016. Participants: A post-intervention focus group was conducted with a group of eight older adults (mean age = 75.8 ± 11.4 years) from 51 total participants who completed the intervention. Methods: The focus group was interviewed loosely following a pre-formed question guide. Participants were encouraged to give honest feedback. The conversation was recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using thematic analyses. Results: While participants viewed most aspects of the study as a success and stated that it was a productive learning experience, most participants had suggestions for improvements in the program content and implementation. Specifically, the composition of and direction to small breakout groups should be carefully considered and planned in this population, and attention should be paid to the delivery of sensitive topic such as death and dementia. A clear main benefit of this programmatic approach is the development of a rapport amongst participants and between participants and clinical researchers. Conclusions: The results provide useful insights regarding improving participation among hard-to-reach and historically underrepresented groups of older adults in clinical research. Future iterations of this program and similar educational interventions can use these findings to better achieve the programmatic objectives.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Interpretive Qualitative Evaluation Informs Research Participation and Advocacy Training Program for Seniors: A Pilot Study

Bay,

Tian,

Hackney

et al. 2023

Healthcare

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“…It is open and sensible to depict processes, but mostly events, concepts, needs, meanings, expectations, feelings, challenges, and problems experienced daily by the stakeholders involved. It is thus particularly useful to study programs’ variations in the process of implementation from one place to another, and from the perspective of different individuals (Kerber, Kirchhof, Cezar-Vaz, & Silveira, 2010). QE can capture the nature of these variations, and the modifications and contradictions that occur when programs are executed given the distinct idiosyncrasy of the participants and the specificity of each experience.…”

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Qualitative evaluation: A critical and interpretative complementary approach to improve health programs and services

Tayabas

León

Espino

2014

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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This short essay aims at commenting on the origin, development, rationale, and main characteristics of qualitative evaluation (QE), emphasizing the value of this methodological tool to evaluate health programs and services. During the past decades, different approaches have come to light proposing complementary alternatives to appraise the performance of public health programs, mainly focusing on the implementation process involved rather than on measuring the impact of such actions. QE is an alternative tool that can be used to illustrate and understand the process faced when executing health programs. It can also lead to useful suggestions to modify its implementation from the stakeholders’ perspectives, as it uses a qualitative approach that considers participants as reflective subjects, generators of meanings. This implies that beneficiaries become involved in an active manner in the evaluated phenomena with the aim of improving the health programs or services that they receive. With this work we want to encourage evaluators in the field of public health to consider the use of QE as a complementary tool for program evaluation to be able to identify areas of opportunity to improve programs’ implementation processes from the perspective of intended beneficiaries.

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Expectations and perceptions of clients concerning the quality of care provided at a Brazilian hospital facility

Mendes

Trevizan²,

Godoy³

et al. 2018

Applied Nursing Research

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Right of the Citizen and Evaluation of Health Services: theoretical-Practical Approaches

Cited by 3 publications

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Interpretive Qualitative Evaluation Informs Research Participation and Advocacy Training Program for Seniors: A Pilot Study

Interpretive Qualitative Evaluation Informs Research Participation and Advocacy Training Program for Seniors: A Pilot Study

Qualitative evaluation: A critical and interpretative complementary approach to improve health programs and services

Expectations and perceptions of clients concerning the quality of care provided at a Brazilian hospital facility

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