Abstract:
STUDY OBJECTIVE:To examine the difficulties of developing and maintaining outcome evaluation designs in long term, community based health promotion programmes. DESIGN:Semistructured interviews of health promotion managers. SETTING:Wales and two reference health regions in England. PARTICIPANTS:Nine health promotion managers in Wales and 18 in England. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:Information on selected heart health promotion activity undertaken or coordinated by health authorities from 1985-90 was collected. The Heartbeat Wales coronary heart disease prevention programme was set up in 1985, and a research and evaluation strategy was established to complement the intervention. A substantial increase in the budget occurred over the period. In the reference health regions in England this initiative was noted and rapidly taken up, thus compromising their use as control areas. CONCLUSION:Information on large scale, community based health promotion programmes can disseminate quickly and interfere with classic intervention/evaluation control designs through contamination. Alternative experimental designs for assessing the effectiveness of long term intervention programmes need to be considered. These should not rely solely on the use of reference populations, but should balance the measurement of outcome with an assessment of the process of change in communities. The development and use of intervention exposure measures together with well structured and comprehensive process evaluation in both the intervention and reference areas is recommended.
journal_name
J Epidemiol Community Healthjournal_title
Journal of epidemiology and community healthauthors
Nutbeam D,Smith C,Murphy S,Catford Jdoi
10.1136/jech.47.2.127subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1993-04-01 00:00:00pages
127-33issue
2eissn
0143-005Xissn
1470-2738journal_volume
47pub_type
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