کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
322327 539965 2007 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The process of evaluating a capacity-building support initiative for HIV positive South Africans
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
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The process of evaluating a capacity-building support initiative for HIV positive South Africans
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper describes the process of evaluating a capacity-building initiative involving HIV positive South Africans. The evaluation was conducted within a participatory evaluation framework, which aims at empowering participants through social action. The rationale is that an understanding and acceptance of evaluation results promotes commitment to act. Forty four members of the Kudu Support Group and 23 non-members participated in the evaluation. Methods included in-depth interviews, a survey, repeated measures of the General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28), a SWOT analysis, interviews with health workers, field notes, and participatory observation. The capacity-building initiative resulted in empowerment through paid employment for support group members, the establishment of a vegetable garden, increased skills and efficacy, access to resources and networks, a perceived reduction of stigma, perceived improvement of social relations, and improved scores on the GHQ-28. Lessons that emerge out of this study are the importance of integrating evaluation as a part of ongoing activities throughout the research project; to ensure that methods and results are understandable and useful to for the participants; that the evaluator has an in-depth understanding of the project and context; and to introduce frequent and simple internal evaluation tools to guide efforts to improve community-based groups’ functioning and activities.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Evaluation and Program Planning - Volume 30, Issue 4, November 2007, Pages 381–391
نویسندگان
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