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Evidence-based mental health promotion resource97Figure 3: Mental health promotion interventions continuumIndividual focusPopulation focusHealth educationSkill developmentCommunicationstrategiesGroup workBrief interventionsSocial marketingHealth informationBehaviour andattitude changecampaigns – localand statewide mediaCommunicationstrategiesHealth educationand empowermentCommunity actionCommunityparticipationCommunitydevelopment andengagementCommunity capacitybuildingAdvocacySettings andsupportiveenvironmentsInfrastructure andsystems changePolicyLegislationOrganisationalchangeWorkforcedevelopmentOutcome evaluationResearchSectors and settingsJustice Arts Workplace Housing Community EducationSport Health Local government Academia(Source: Based on Department of Human Services interventions continuum and the VicHealth Framework for thePromotion of Mental Health and Wellbeing.)
98 Evidence-based mental health promotion resourceUse the language of ‘intermediateoutcomes’ and ‘long term benefits’ fromthis resource and the VicHealth Frameworkfor the Promotion of Mental Health andWellbeing to guide your program andevaluation plans. This language will helpyou to describe what you are seeking toachieve and to set up the success criteriato guide your program.Step 5: Develop an evaluation planEvaluation enables us to learn about the effectiveness of activities, as well as thereasons that programs achieve or fail to achieve their objectives. Practitioner wisdomand more formal measures are combined in evaluation to develop the knowledgebase necessary for planning and implementing future activities. In addition, evaluationenables practitioners to meet accountability requirements and to more systematicallydocument, disseminate and promote effective practice.Mental health promotion or improvement programs necessarily account for a widerange of social, economic, political and environmental factors. Such complexity requiresmany types of evidence for effective evaluation. As described in this resource, theevidence base for health promotion interventions to reduce mental health problemsis dominated by relatively large intervention trials conducted by universities and otherresearch organisations. Smaller, community-based initiatives can be effective, but arerarely included in the published evaluation literature. Evaluation and documentation ofthese interventions will help to provide a more balanced evidence base for improvingefforts to reduce the incidence of mental health problems.Evaluating a health promotion program or intervention involves considering differentaspects of that program/intervention. These aspects are generally referred to as process,impact and outcome evaluation. As discussed, goals, objectives and interventions aremeasured by different types of evaluation (DHS 2003 adapted from Hawe et al. 1990),as shown in figure 4.Figure 4: Schema of program logic between program planning components andevaluation categoriesGoal/aims measured by Outcome evaluationObjectives and sub-objectives measured by Impact evaluationInterventions/strategies measured by Process evaluation
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