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Valuing: HIV Prevention Education Evaluation
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| Sarita Davis, Georgia State University, saritadavis@gsu.edu
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Evaluation generally evolves out of a context, be it professional or personal experience, practice, or a discipline. Despite the historical claims that evaluation is objective, we see that the process of HIV Prevention Education evaluation is frequently informed by a narrow set of values. This begs the question, 'Whose values are (or are not) being considered'? And how do these values influence HIV Prevention Education and perceptions of truth?
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Evaluation of an Instrument Designed to Identify the Self-Care Practices of Older African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes
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| Gina M McCaskill, University of Alabama, gmmccaskill@crimson.ua.edu
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| Kathleen Bolland, University of Alabama, kbolland@sw.ua.edu
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Type 2 Diabetes is a major health issue for older African Americans. Self-care routines are important to the management of diabetes and can affect overall health and well-being. Yet, there is an absence in the research literature of an instrument for evaluating diabetes self-care practices among older African Americans. Existing scales that assess self-care practices among individuals with diabetes have not been developed for, nor assessed with, this population. In this presentation, we will discuss the development and assessment of the Self-care Utility Geriatric African American Rating (SUGAAR), a new instrument for evaluating diabetes self-care practices among older African Americans. We will highlight our approach to scale development, our findings from the rating scale evaluation, and the implications of the results for social workers and health care providers who use the SUGAAR to evaluate the self-care practices of their clients.
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Creative Interventions: Use of an Evaluation Team to Move the State of Black Gay America Summit (SBGA) Agenda Forward
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| Karen Anderson, Independent Consultant, kanderson.sw@gmail.com
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The purpose of my paper, Creative Interventions: Use of an Evaluation Team to Move the State of Black Gay America Summit Agenda Forward is to explore the utility of evaluation in advocacy and social change events to engage and provide feedback to a range of stakeholders. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population has a range of unique advocacy points, and various individual, family, societal, and system concerns that need to be voiced and addressed. In this paper I will discuss how an evaluation team was used as an intervention at the State of Black Gay America (SBGA) Summit to provide data for the organizers to assist with strategizing ways to improve knowledge sharing and advocacy efforts, as well as definition to their roles as leaders through structured interviews. An evaluation plan was developed with the organizers to ensure that SMART objectives were being utilized throughout the evaluation process.
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