London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Qual Health Res. 2021 Jul;31(9):1724-1737. doi: 10.1177/10497323211002146. Epub 2021 May 13.
Evaluating social change programs requires methods that account for changes in context, implementation, and participant experience. We present a case study of a school-based partner violence prevention program with young people, where we conducted 33 repeat interviews with nine participants during and after an intervention and analyzed participant trajectories. We show how repeat interviews conducted during and after a social change program were useful in helping us understand how the intervention worked by providing rich contextual information, elucidating gradual shifts among participants, and identifying aspects of the intervention that appear to influence change. Long-term effects of social change interventions are very hard to quantify or measure directly. We argue that a qualitative longitudinal approach provides a way to measure subtle changes that can serve as proxies for longer term impacts.
评估社会变革项目需要考虑到背景、实施和参与者体验变化的方法。我们呈现了一个基于学校的青少年伙伴暴力预防项目的案例研究，在该项目中，我们在干预期间和之后对 9 名参与者进行了 33 次重复访谈，并对参与者的轨迹进行了分析。我们展示了在社会变革项目期间和之后进行重复访谈如何有助于我们理解干预的效果，提供丰富的背景信息，阐明参与者之间的逐步转变，并确定干预的哪些方面似乎影响了变化。社会变革干预的长期效果非常难以量化或直接衡量。我们认为，定性纵向方法提供了一种衡量微妙变化的方法，可以作为长期影响的替代指标。
