Community Based Research Centre Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
Arch Sex Behav. 2021 Jan;50(1):119-128. doi: 10.1007/s10508-020-01806-8. Epub 2020 Sep 9.
OurStats ( https://www.cbrc.net/ourstats ) is a data visualization dashboard developed by the Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC) to increase access to data from the Sex Now surveys-Canada's largest community-based surveillance study of gay and bisexual men. An evaluation of the OurStats dashboard was conducted using an online survey distributed through the CBRC and Advance Alliance-an alliance of Canada's leading HIV and queer men's health organizations. Since being launched in November 2019 (through December 2019), 350 unique visitors used the OurStats Dashboard (5.8 per day). Based on responses from 10 community partners, all respondents said they would probably/definitely use OurStats again and would probably/definitely recommend it to colleagues; nine felt it was much/somewhat better than traditional academic outputs (e.g., poster presentations, journal articles); and seven felt it was much/somewhat better than traditional knowledge translation outputs (e.g., fliers, posters, and social media posts). Respondents said they would use OurStats to identify needs of gay and bisexual men (n = 9), prepare grant/funding applications (n = 9), prepare presentations about Sex Now data (n = 7), and evaluate the impact of local programs (n = 4). Overall, half felt that OurStats was somewhat/extremely easy to use and half felt that it was somewhat difficult to use. The most commonly identified requested improvement was to provide help documentation that explained how each of the display settings changed the visualizations. From these findings, we conclude that dynamic visualizations for community-based survey data are highly feasible and acceptable, provided appropriate support is available to help community partners use these tools.
OurStats（https://www.cbrc.net/ourstats）是社区为基础的研究中心（CBRC）开发的数据可视化仪表板，旨在增加对来自性现在调查-加拿大最大的基于社区的男同性恋和双性恋男性监测研究的数据的访问。使用通过 CBRC 和 Advance Alliance-加拿大领先的艾滋病毒和酷儿男性健康组织联盟分发的在线调查对 OurStats 仪表板进行了评估。自 2019 年 11 月（截至 2019 年 12 月）推出以来，已有 350 位独特访客使用了 OurStats 仪表板（每天 5.8 次）。根据 10 位社区合作伙伴的回复，所有受访者表示他们可能/肯定会再次使用 OurStats，并可能/肯定会向同事推荐它；9 人认为它比传统学术成果（例如海报展示、期刊文章）要好得多/有些；7 人认为它比传统知识转化成果（例如传单、海报和社交媒体帖子）要好得多/有些。受访者表示，他们将使用 OurStats 来确定男同性恋和双性恋男性的需求（n=9）、准备赠款/资金申请（n=9）、准备有关性现在数据的演示（n=7）和评估当地计划的影响（n=4）。总的来说，有一半的人认为 OurStats 有点/非常易于使用，而另一半人则认为有点难以使用。最常提出的改进要求是提供帮助文档，解释每个显示设置如何改变可视化效果。根据这些发现，我们得出结论，基于社区的调查数据的动态可视化是高度可行和可接受的，前提是提供适当的支持以帮助社区合作伙伴使用这些工具。
