Promoting and Evaluating Health Behaviors.

Promoting and Evaluating Health Behaviors.

Workplan.
Goals for the year: To increase the awareness of young adults about the effects of drinking and drug use through mass media campaigns and group discussions.			Measures of Success: The project is completed within the set timeframe, both the learning and behavioral objectives are achieved, and the project’s total cost remains within the initial project budget.
Objectives	Activities planned to achieve the objective.	Data measurement tools.		Timeframe assessing progress	Team member responsible.
Learning objective of the project: At the end of the Season-long project, 80% of young adults will be able to state and describe at least five negative consequences of drinking and drug use. The behavioral objective of the project: At the end of the season-long project, 75% of young adults will self-report having quit drinking and using drugs.	Mass media campaigns. The avenues that will be used include radio, television, billboards, and social media.           Group counseling. It will involve the use of peer discussions. It is advantageous because it uses social reinforcement.	Surveys will be used to evaluate the learning objective of the project. Questionnaires will also be used to evaluate the learning objective.     Interviews and questionnaires will be used to evaluate the behavioral objective.		Twelve months                   Twelve months	Trained Information Technology personnel will be responsible for creating the surveys. Data analysts will assist in the analysis process.     Trained counselors will facilitate the process. Data analysts will help with data analysis.

 

The effectiveness of the training program will be evaluated using different strategies. The first strategy is the evaluation of the reaction of the target population (participants) towards the program. The participants’ feedback on the relevance and importance of the training program will be sought. The data collection tools that will be used are questionnaires, interviews, and surveys (Braithwaite & Mayuga, 2017). Open-ended questions will be incorporated into the data collection tools. Participants will give feedback on the shortcomings of the program, its strengths, and whether they benefited from it. This will help to determine the effectiveness of the program and identify any gaps that should be addressed.

The second strategy for evaluating the effectiveness of the training program is the evaluation of the learning process. This involves measuring the knowledge of the participants at various stages of the program (Yaqoot et al., 2017). This will be accomplished through the administration of test scores during the project’s life cycle. The feedback from all team members concerning the progress of their trainees will be evaluated. The learning process can also be monitored by the number of participants that complete the program (Drolet et al., 2017). The test scores administered during the training and at the end of the training will help establish whether the program objectives have been achieved.

The third strategy is the evaluation of the participants’ behavior after the training program. This can occur immediately or several months after the training program. This aims at determining how the training program has influenced participants’ behavior (Gaffney et al., 2019). They will be asked about their previous and current drinking and substance use patterns. This will be achieved using various data collection tools. They include focus groups, questionnaires, and informal feedback from the society. Positive feedback from participants and family members will prove the training program was effective.

The other strategy to evaluate the effectiveness of the training program is by evaluating the program’s results. Examples of such results can include achieving both the learning and behavioral objectives and fulfilling the project’s goals (Yanagida et al., 2019). Furthermore, the results can be evaluated from the change in the productivity of the participants’ society. The cases of drinking and substance use are expected to decrease. Furthermore, society is expected to observe a decrease in the negative impacts of drinking and substance use from the participants.

The effectiveness of the program intervention will be demonstrated by the accomplishment of both the behavioral and learning objective. The learning objective is “At the end of the Season-long project, 80% of young adults will be able to state and describe at least five negative consequences of drinking and drug use.” At the end of the intervention, young adults must be able to fulfill the learning objective. This will prove that they are most likely to avoid engaging in any drinking and substance use habits in the future. Furthermore, they are most likely to educate their peers after completing the training program.

The behavioral objective of the program is “At the end of the season-long project, 75% of young adults will self-report having quit drinking and using drugs.” The fulfillment of this objective will demonstrate the effectiveness of the program intervention. The population that will have quit drinking and drug use will most likely positively impact society. Furthermore, they are most likely to educate their peers on the importance of avoiding drugs. When this happens, society will reform its most productive population. The program’s goal is “To increase the awareness of young adults about the effects of drinking and drug use through mass media campaigns and group discussions.” When both objectives and the goal are achieved, the intervention of the program will be effective. The young adult population will reduce their drinking and drug use habits, significantly increasing their productivity. Furthermore, drinking and substance use-related side effects and other hazards such as accidents will reduce 

References.

Braithwaite, J., & Mayuga, C. (2017). Why they come , what they learn , how they change : Measuring the effectiveness of health and safety training BESAFE REPORT FOR AKO AOTEAROA ( D @@.

Drolet, B. C., Marwaha, J. S., Wasey, A., & Pallant, A. (2017). Program Director Perceptions of the General Surgery Milestones Project. Journal of Surgical Education, 74(5), 769–772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2017.02.012

Gaffney, H., Ttofi, M. M., & Farrington, D. P. (2019). Evaluating the effectiveness of school-bullying prevention programs: An updated meta-analytical review. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 45, 111–133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2018.07.001

Yanagida, T., Strohmeier, D., & Spiel, C. (2019). Dynamic Change of Aggressive Behavior and Victimization Among Adolescents: Effectiveness of the ViSC Program. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 48(sup1), S90–S104. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2016.1233498

Yaqoot, E., Noor, W., & Isa, M. (2017). Factors influencing training effectiveness : Evidence from public sector in Bahrain. Economica, 13(2), 31–44. http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/oeconomica/article/view/3991

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Promoting and Evaluating Health Behaviors.

For Module 3, conduct a literature search utilizing peer-reviewed journal articles, books, professional organization Web sites and articles, etc., to continue working on your program/intervention plan (which you started in Module 2) and propose appropriate evaluation measures to evaluate effectiveness of your program.

Write a paper (3 pages in length) including a complete workplan that shows your implementation procedures to address the health behavior and describing your methods to evaluate your program/intervention. A workplan sample can be found at https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Publications/Cancer/nbccedp/training/workplans/introduction.htm

The following items will be assessed in particular:

1. Use the feedback I gave you in the previous module to refine and update your goal and objectives.
2. Include a complete work plan with the following components: goals, objectives, activities, data measurement tools, timeframe, responsible person, and measures of success.
3. Describe how you will evaluate the effectiveness of your program. Make sure to include information on what evaluation tool you plan to use (e.g., questionnaire and survey).
4. Discuss how you will know if your program or intervention is effective. Refer back to your program goal and objectives.