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Young People and Caregivers' Perceptions of an Intervention Program for Children Who Deliberately Light Fires
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Lambie, Ian; Seymour, Fred; Popaduk, Tanya – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
A significant number of children and adolescents engage in deliberate fire setting, beyond the scope of curiosity and experimentation. Interventions developed to respond to the needs of such fire setters generally involve educational and/or psychosocial approaches. Research evaluating the effectiveness of these interventions is dominated by…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Recidivism, Intervention, Caregivers
Evaluating an HIV and AIDS Community Training Partnership Program in Five Diamond Mining Communities in South Africa
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Rispel, L. C.; Peltzer, K.; Nkomo, N.; Molomo, B. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2010
In 2006, De Beers Consolidated Diamond Mines in South Africa entered into a partnership, with the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communications to implement an HIV and AIDS Community Training Partnership Program (CTPP), initially in five diamond mining areas in three provinces of South Africa. The aim of CTPP was to improve HIV…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Program Implementation, Foreign Countries, Corporations
Peer-Led Interventions to Reduce HIV Risk of Youth: A Review
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Maticka-Tyndale, Eleanor; Barnett, Jessica Penwell – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2010
One approach in HIV prevention programming targeting youth is to use peer leaders in what is referred to as peer education programming. This paper critically reviews and synthesizes the results and lessons learned from 24 evaluated peer-led programs with an HIV/AIDS risk reduction component that target youth in the communities where they live and…
Descriptors: Synthesis, Program Evaluation, Youth, Low Income
The Utility of Case-Control Methods for Health Policy and Planning Analysis: An Illustration from Kinshasa, Zaire.
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Mock, Nancy B.; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
The use of case-control methodology as an applied policy/planning research tool in assessing the potential effectiveness of behavioral interventions is studied in connection with diarrhea control in Zaire. Results with 107 matched pairs of children demonstrate the importance of hygiene-related knowledge and the utility of the research approach.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Case Studies, Children, Control Groups
Changing Needle Practices in Community Outreach and Methadone Treatment.
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Wechsberg, Wendee M.; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1994
This pretest/posttest study used two samples of injecting drug users (184 from street outreach and 103 from a methadone program) to assess drug use and human immunodeficiency virus risk practices. The improvement in risk behaviors at posttest suggests that intervention programs were agents of change. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Behavior Change, Change Agents, Community Programs
Validity of Self-Reported Drug Use among Injection Drug Users and Crack Cocaine Users Recruited through Street Outreach.
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Weatherby, Norman L.; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1994
The validity of self-reported drug use as a measure of behavioral change for evaluation of drug use prevention and human immunovirus risk reduction programs was examined, using responses of 154 subjects. Results suggest that self-reports of drug use are accurate enough for measuring risk behavior change in program participants. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adults, Behavior Change, Crack
Patient Satisfaction with Health Care: Intentions and Change in Plan.
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Senf, Janet H.; Weiss, Barry D. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991
Satisfaction with health care was assessed for 4,794 pre-open-enrollment and 3,624 post-open-enrollment college faculty and staff using measures with general and personal referents and reference to the last physician visit. Prediction of intention to change health care is discussed. Stated intention to change was not a good predictor of actual…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Client Characteristics (Human Services)