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Evaluation ProjectsEvaluation of Implementation and Adoption of a Community Mobilization Domestic Violence Prevention Program Founded in 2002 by a small group of community residents in Dorchester, MA, Close to Home has pioneered the use of community mobilization strategies to foster community wide responsibility to prevent domestic and sexual violence. By combining expertise in domestic and sexual violence with expertise in community organizing, Close to Home draws attention to a public health problem that is often considered a private matter rather than part of public life, and it engages all community members in developing and implementing solutions. Funding from Jane’s Trust and the Massachusetts State Legislature allowed for this innovative model to be implemented in three pilot sites in MA. The goal of this study is to assess facilitators and barriers that have lead to variation in the extent of implementation of the model at the three sites. In addition, this study is assessing fidelity of pilot agency activities to the model. The results from this study will be used to guide future implementation efforts of this model of primary prevention of domestic violence. Key Personnel: Funding:
Evaluation of One Act: a UNC campus bystander intervention initiative Sexual violence prevention efforts have long focused on addressing potential perpetrators and victims and changing their attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. Increasingly experts in the field are promoting the idea of bystander intervention, in which other people (friends etc) who witness an interaction that seems like it may lead to an abusive interaction have the skills and confidence to step in and act to change the eventual outcomes. The interpersonal violence prevention coordinator for UNC Chapel Hill has worked with students across campus to review many prominent bystander intervention programs and develop a curriculum that they believe will be the most effective on this university campus. It is called “One Act” because they encourage students to take at least on prosocial act to change the norms on campus around parties, alcohol use, dating relationships, and sexual violence. They are also developing a campus wide social marketing campaign to support the messages from the training. This study is supporting several phases of the program planning and evaluation of this effort, including process evaluation, evaluation of short term impacts on training participants, and assessing campus wide social norms change from the trainings and the media campaign. Key Personnel: Funding:
Dissemination Evaluation of an Older Adult Falls Prevention Program The goal of this project is to identify effective methods of disseminating an older adult falls prevention program to senior centers to increase the likelihood of adoption and implementation of the program by both the senior centers and older adults. The objectives are to describe senior center barriers to adoption and implementation of the program, develop dissemination strategies to address those barriers and evaluate the effectiveness of the dissemination strategies in increasing adoption and implementation. Project Period: Key Personnel: Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: Funding: Contact:
Evaluation of NCDHHS Statewide Suicide Prevention Initiative This project is evaluating aspects of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' youth suicide prevention program which is focused on increasing capacity in the state to identify youth at risk for suicide and to link them with mental health treatment through training and technical support of school personnel. The effort includes three components: 1) development of a communications campaign intended to increase help seeking behavior and reduce suicidal behavior of youth; 2) delivery of gatekeeper suicide prevention training to select school personnel with the intent of increasing the skills of adults who work with youth to recognize warning signs and respond appropriately when youth are at risk of suicidal behavior; and 3) implementation of a school-based student suicide prevention curriculum to juvenile justice health education teachers as well as to physical education and health education teachers. UNC IPRC is evaluating the second program component¡ªgatekeeper suicide prevention training delivered to select school personnel. The delivery of this gatekeeper training includes both a training for trainers (T4T) as well as training sessions directed specifically to school personnel. Project Period: Key Personnel: Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: Funding: Contact:
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Smoke Alarm Installation and Fire Safety Education (SAIFE) Program Residential fire poses a significant threat to life and property in North Carolina. To address residential fires and related injuries, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funds state health departments to deliver a Smoke Alarm Installation and Fire Safety Education (SAIFE) program in high-risk homes. This program involves collaboration with local communities to canvass neighborhood homes, install long-lasting lithium-powered smoke alarms, and provide general fire safety education with a 6-month follow-up to determine alarm functionality. UNC IPRC investigators will collaborate with RTI, the CDC, and the North Carolina Injury and Violence Prevention Program to evaluate the SAIFE program implementation in North Carolina. Project Period: Key Personnel: Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: Funding: Contact:
Beta Site Testing of Incorporation of the International Classification of External Causes of Injury (ICECI) into the National Burn Repository Data Collection Tool The specific aim of this research is to evaluate the International Classification of External Causes of Injury (ICECI) as a surveillance tool for the on-going, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data regarding burns for use in prevention activities to reduce burn-related morbidity and mortality. The hypothesis to be tested in this project is that the ICECI can be used easily, efficiently and accurately by a burn center that is already engaged in gathering data for the National Burn Repository (NBR) of the American Burn Association (ABA). A process evaluation of this tool is being conducted in 9 US hospitals and one hospital in Brazil. Analysis is expected to begin in 2009 once all data are collected. Project Period: Key Personnel: Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: Funding: Contact:
Development of Injury Surveillance Capacity in Malawi Injury data from Malawi is scarce. The few data that have been collected show that road traffic injuries and burn injuries are a large public health problem in Malawi. The purpose of this collaborative project is to enhance injury surveillance capacity at a hospital level in two large regional hospitals and further link hospital and mortality data so as to improve injury surveillance capacity in the country. The project involves collaborations between hospitals and government institutions that collect injury data including forensic and police data. Manuscripts are currently being prepared with one article recently published in the World Journal of Surgery. Key Personnel: Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: Funding: Contact:
Development of a Data Visualization tool for Public Health and Health Sciences The purpose of this collaborative project was to develop free and open-source software that provides alternative formats for visualizing longitudinal data in public health and health sciences. The alpha version of this project has been completed. A visualization tool created by RENCI helps researchers see and show the impacts of some intervention methods and how they can affect the occurrence of injuries and violence, especially traffic, alcohol, and firearm-related injuries and violence. The tool will be applied later to other health-related problems. A Beta version will be presented to faculty in 2010. The aim is to get feedback about functionality and uses of the tool in different public health settings and with different datasets focusing on the use of enhanced data visualization techniques. A manuscript about this project was published in the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, June/July 2009, the issue of the Bulletin that won the American Society for Information Science & Technology and Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (ASIS&T SIG) Publication of the Year award. This project is an example of collaboration activities between the UNC-HSL Collaboration Center and the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI). A grant to continue this project is being planned. Project Period: Key Personnel: Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: Funding: Contact:
Affiliate Safe Community Support Center UNC IPRC has been designated as the Affiliate Safe Community Support Center for the World Health Organization's (WHO) Safe Communities worldwide initiative. To that end, the Center is working on establishing measures and strategies to improve the capacity of designated ¡°safe communities¡± to effectively evaluate the Safe Communities America program in these local communities. The evaluation measures will be based on the six indicators established by the international WHO Safe Communities program, which include: 1) an infrastructure based on partnership and collaborations, governed by a cross-sectional group that is responsible for safety promotion in their community; 2) long-term, sustainable programs covering both genders, and all ages, environments and situations; 3) programs that target high-risk groups and environments, and programs that promote safety for vulnerable groups; 4) documentation of the frequency and causes of injuries; 5) evaluation of programs, processes, and the effects of change; and 6) participation in national and international safe communities networks. To accomplish this goal, the IPRC team is: 1) conducting an extensive review of relevant empirical literature on evaluation of Safe Communities internationally; 2) assessing current evaluation measures through review of annual reports of Safe Communities; and 3) reviewing the evaluation work of country affiliates such as the report card developed by Safe Communities Canada. Key Personnel: Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: Funding: Contact:
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