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Dealing with Sensitive Data in Community-based Organization Settings
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| Presenter(s):
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| Caroline Taggart, Ciurczak & Company Inc, caroline@ciurczak.net
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| Jessica Weitzel, Ciurczak & Company Inc, jessica@ciurczak.net
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Administering adolescent risk behavior surveys in community-based organizations (CBOs) presents unique challenges. While schools offer a relatively structured environment, CBOs may have youth arriving at staggered and unpredictable times, experience high staff turnover, and serve different youth each day.
As the evaluators for a Community-Based Abstinence Education grant awarded to a network of local Boys and Girls Clubs (BGC), we worked with BGC staff to establish straightforward procedures for administering pre- and posttest surveys. The procedures were established to ensure data confidentiality and veracity and to track respondents for the one-year posttest survey in the somewhat unpredictable CBO environment.
We will discuss the challenges faced in ensuring that all sites and staff members followed these procedures, and how we addressed situations in which this was not the case. We will also engage the audience in discussion on alternative ways to gather such information in CBOs and similar settings.
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Healthy Eating and Active Living Survey Data Collection in the School Setting from Students - Response Rates, Data Quality, and Lessons Learned
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| Flora Stephenson, Alberta Health Services, flora.stephenson@albertahealthservices.ca
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Survey data collection is routinely used to solicit information from stakeholders. This session will share the process findings from a non-government mandated student survey at four Canadian school jurisdictions. Since data collection approaches were determined by the jurisdictions, different survey media (paper and online) were used and different levels of facilitation for data collection were received. School jurisdictions that chose the paper medium had a good response rate, as did the school jurisdiction with in-kind support to facilitate online survey data collection at the schools. One school jurisdiction chose the online medium and was not able to provide in-kind support, which resulted in poor response rate and data quality. The findings suggest that support from school stakeholders to facilitate survey data collection was the key factor for good response rate and data quality, not survey media. The session will outline future directions and ideas for student survey data collection.
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Long-Term Follow-up to Evaluate Effectiveness of Parent-Child Sexual Health Communication Program Among Hispanics
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| Sheetal Malhotra, Medical Institute, smalhotra@medinstitute.org
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Several programs educate parents on sexual health communication with their children. However, there is not much information on long-term effectiveness of such programs. Furthermore, cultural barriers in Hispanics deter continued parent-child communication on sex. Methods: A Spanish-language curriculum, showed improved knowledge and skills in Hispanic parents in border communities. Follow up data were obtained to assess retention of knowledge and skills as well as communication frequency and behaviors. Objectives: The follow up assessment objectives were to 1) test retention of parent knowledge and 2) assess frequency and behaviors of parent-child communication on sexual health issues. Results: 174 of 263 (66%) parenting adults responded to follow-up phone surveys 12-24 months after completion of the parent prorgam. Data revealed significant retention of knowledge of risk factors for teen pregnancy, STIs, and dating violence. A majority of parents reported continued comfort and frequent communication on sexual health topics with their children.
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