Hohman Katherine H, Mantinan Karah D
Healthy Living Department, YMCA, USA.
New Dir Youth Dev. 2014 Fall;2014(143):25-43. doi: 10.1002/yd.20102.
As part of its 2011 commitment to the Partnership for Healthier America, the YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) pledged that by 2015, 85 percent of its local Y associations with early childhood or afterschool programs would have at least one program site that met 100 percent of the Y-USA's healthy eating and physical activity (HEPA) standards. To inform the measurement and monitoring of HEPA standards, the Y-USA designed a thirty-three-item online survey to assess which HEPA standards were being met in afterschool program sites each year in order to track progress over time. Verification activities including direct observation, key informant interviews, and document review generated overall compliance ratings for each standard. Compliance ratings were then compared to the self-reported survey results to determine the validity of the survey for assessing each HEPA standard. The survey had variable accuracy when compared to the validation methods. This chapter aims to inform the measurement and monitoring of HEPA standards implementation in larger afterschool networks by reporting on learnings from the Y-USA's early efforts in its network.
作为2011年对“更健康美国伙伴关系”承诺的一部分，美国基督教青年会（Y-USA）承诺，到2015年，其开展幼儿或课后项目的地方Y协会中，85%将至少有一个项目点达到Y-USA的健康饮食和体育活动（HEPA）标准的100%。为了为HEPA标准的衡量和监测提供信息，Y-USA设计了一项包含33个项目的在线调查，以评估每年课后项目点达到哪些HEPA标准，从而跟踪随时间推移的进展。包括直接观察、关键信息人访谈和文件审查在内的核查活动得出了每项标准的总体合规评级。然后将合规评级与自我报告的调查结果进行比较，以确定该调查评估每项HEPA标准的有效性。与验证方法相比，该调查的准确性存在差异。本章旨在通过报告Y-USA在其网络中的早期努力所获得的经验教训，为在更大的课后网络中衡量和监测HEPA标准的实施情况提供信息。
