Evaluation of Community-Based Injury Prevention Programmes: Methodological Issues and Challenges

The evaluation of community-based injury prevention programs poses methodological challenges. This article reports on a systematic literature review undertaken to examine evaluations of 16 community-based injury prevention programs with regard to key methodological issues and challenges. Three aspects of the evaluated programs were analyzed: assessed elements (context, structure, process, impact, and outcome); study design; and methodological issues. Results demonstrated that context, structure and process assessments were the most neglected aspects of the evaluation studies. In most of the studies, the processes (activities) were described rather than evaluated against appropriate standards of comparisons. Outcome evaluations focused on injury incidence. The author concludes that the quasi-experimental study design has become an accepted norm for the evaluation of community-based injury prevention programs. While threats to internal validity were identified in most studies, problems related to external validity and construct validity were largely overlooked by the evaluators.

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• Authors:
  • Nilsen, Per
• Publication Date: 2005-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 143-156
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 1745-7300
  • EISSN: 1745-7319
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/nics20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communities; Evaluation and assessment; Literature reviews; Prevention; Reliability; Research; Safety; Safety campaigns; Safety programs; Validity
• Uncontrolled Terms: Injury prevention
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01019296
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 1 2006 9:04AM