Assignment: Childhood Obesity Assessment
Evaluation of educational needs
Self-report surveys and group interviews
Self-report surveys and group interviews with the program participants will be carried out before the program commences. Participants will be provided with self-report surveys asking specific questions on the obesity and obesity intervention and management approaches. The program staff will then conduct in group interviews with the participants and family members to see if the participants and their families understand how the condition can be intervened and what needs to be done for them to go through the program successfully. During the group interviews, the program staff should find out if the participants and their families understand what really obesity and how it is calculated using the Body Mass Index (BMI).
Delphi Technique strategy
For the participants of this program, a two-round Delphi technique will be used with a panel of 8 childhood obesity experts. All panelists will rate the priority populations, measurement of outcomes, methods of intervention, the duration of the obesity intervention, and future intervention settings (Kim, Sung, Choi, Ju, Park, Cheong & Kim, 2017). Afterward, a portfolio analysis will be carried out with adequacy and feasibility indexes as the two axes.
Formative Evaluation
Online Version of Lincoln
The first strategy to improve the Lincoln obesity intervention program is to create an online version of the Lincoln obesity intervention program. This will help the program engineers to test whether the online version would be able to work effectively and equivalently as the physical program and the overall effect of the online version on the profitability and results of the program of customers.
Intervention procedure validation
In case the program is not attaining its goals, intervention procedure validation strategy can be applied to mediate the variables and to prioritize to change and to identify procedures that would maximize the benefits of the obesity intervention program of the members (Dixon-Ibarra, Driver, VanVolkenburg & Humphries, 2017).
Summative Evaluation
Tailor the program to end-user
Tailoring the plan to end-user needs will be an effective strategy to establish what will work for the Lincoln obesity intervention program. This strategy ensures that the outcomes of the implemented are attributable to the community’s needs (Scanlon, Alexander, McHugh, Beich, Christianson, Greene & Wolf, (2016). The strategy will apply a high-quality design and measurement plant, which is consistent with the logical constraints and the resources of the program.
Tailor the program to Available Resources
Monitoring and summative evaluation results due to the limited resources of the program. Therefore, Lincoln plans will be tailored to address the obesity problem in the area by dealing with the highest pressing issues presented by the members. The obesity intervention program team will carry infrastructural improvements in the program by acquiring some equipment and supplies to alleviate the problem of limited resources before getting a sponsor.
References
Dixon-Ibarra, A., Driver, S., VanVolkenburg, H., & Humphries, K. (2017). Formative evaluation of a physical activity health promotion program for the group home setting. Evaluation and program planning, 60, 81-90.
Kim, M. J., Sung, E., Choi, E. Y., Ju, Y. S., Park, E. W., Cheong, Y. S…. & Kim, S. (2017). Delphi survey for designing an intervention research study on childhood obesity prevention. Korean Journal of family medicine, 38(5), 284.
Scanlon, D. P., Alexander, J. A., McHugh, M., Beich, J., Christianson, J. B., Greene, J., … & Wolf, L. J. (2016). Summative evaluation results and lessons learned from the Aligning Forces for Quality program. The American journal of managed care, 22(12), s360-s372.