Question

1. You are an MPH student intern in a local church. Part of your assigned tasks is to research the possibility of getting a grant to fund a new Head Start preschool program in the church. You find out the following:
2. You are planning a weight control program in your church. You have assessed the need and interest; you have identified program goals and outcomes; you have selected resources and materials; all you have left to do is plan the evaluation. You choose several measures of process evaluation, some of which are listed below. Which one of the following would notbe a measure of process evaluation for the program?

Answer 1

Answer :

Planning a weight control programme :

* first step is prepare mission and vision to weight control programme. That means our purpose and aim through this programme.

* next formulation of short term and long term goals or objectives.

* identify the needed population.

* propaganda regarding program and venue and place.

* conduct the program, implement the what ever the interventions formulated.

* at last evaluate the program results.

These are the steps to be followed in any program conducted.

Assess the need and interest :

The need of the population is the people who are having BODY MASS INDEX more than or equal to 25 kg per meter square.

Those people called as over weight mainly those people need this programme.

And they are nearer to obese .

Due to the over weight and obesity there is a somany problems like, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus and some other correlates problems.

It leads to fatal condition to the population.

For these we need to select the interested population only.

So there is an important this weight control programme.

Goals and out comes :

* maintain normal weight by educating regarding dietary and some physical exercises and life style modifications.

Resources and materials selected by review of literature .

Measures of process of evaluation :

There are some measures like

* structure or formative evaluation here we will see the collection of the data for improvement of plans.

* process evaluation here evaluate the how the program is runner, whether achieved goals what are planned.

* out come evaluation or impact evaluation here will see the change in the knowledge, attitude and behavior of the people.

By using these are all we need to measure the quality and quantity of the program.

By qualitative and quantitative measurements.

Here we can not measure at a time quantity measurement of the program, because it will take time to reduce the weight of the peoples. As this is long term goal or objective.