Practical Approaches to Evaluating Progress and Outcomes in Community-Wide Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiatives

Abstract This paper presents an overview of the key evaluation components for a set of community-wide teen pregnancy prevention initiatives. We first describe the performance measures selected to assess progress toward meeting short-term objectives on the reach and quality of implementation of evide...

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Published inJournal of adolescent health Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. S63 - S68
Main Authors Tevendale, Heather D., Ph.D, Condron, D. Susanne, M.A, Garraza, Lucas Godoy, M.A, House, L. Duane, Ph.D, Romero, Lisa M., Dr.P.H, Brooks, Megan A.M., M.A, Walrath, Christine, Ph.D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 01.03.2017
Elsevier BV
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Birth control
Birth rate
Childbirth & labor
Community
Community health care
Community Health Services - methods
Ethnic Groups
Evaluation methodology
Evidence-Based Medicine - methods
Female
Health services
Humans
Intervention
Pediatrics
Performance measurement
Pregnancy
Pregnancy in adolescence
Pregnancy in Adolescence - prevention & control
Prevention programs
Primary prevention
Program Evaluation - methods
Reproductive health
Sex Education - methods
Synthetic control
Teenage pregnancy
United States
Young Adult
Pregnancy in adolescence
Synthetic control
Primary prevention
Performance measurement
Evaluation methodology
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Summary:Abstract This paper presents an overview of the key evaluation components for a set of community-wide teen pregnancy prevention initiatives. We first describe the performance measures selected to assess progress toward meeting short-term objectives on the reach and quality of implementation of evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention interventions and adolescent reproductive health services. Next, we describe an evaluation that will compare teen birth rates in intervention communities relative to synthetic control communities. Synthetic controls are developed via a data-driven technique that constructs control communities by combining information from a pool of communities that are similar to the intervention community. Finally, we share lessons learned thus far in the evaluation of the project, with a focus on those lessons that may be valuable for local communities evaluating efforts to reduce teen pregnancy.
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ISSN:1054-139X
1879-1972
DOI:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.09.018