Carr Shelby, Burke Amanda, Chater Angel Marie, Howlett Neil, Jones Andy
J Phys Act Health. 2021 Oct 6;18(12):1555-1562. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2021-0078.
Community-based physical activity programs typically evolve to respond to local conditions and feedback from stakeholders. Process evaluations are essential for capturing how programs are implemented, yet often fail to capture delivery evolution over time, meaning missed opportunities for capturing lessons learned.
This research paper reports on a staged approach to a process evaluation undertaken within a community-based UK 12-month physical activity program that aimed to capture change and adaptation to program implementation. Twenty-five one-to-one interviews and 12 focus groups took place over the 3 years of program delivery. Participants included program participants, management, and service deliverers.
Program adaptations that were captured through the ongoing process evaluation included changes to the design of promotional material, program delivery content, ongoing training in behavior change, and the addition of regular participant community events. The authors address how these strands evolved over program delivery, and how the process evaluation was able to capture them.
The pragmatic evaluation approach enabled changes in response to the local context, as well as improvements in the program to be captured in a timely manner, allowing the delivery to be responsive and the evaluation flexible.
基于社区的体育活动项目通常会不断发展，以应对当地情况和利益相关者的反馈。过程评估对于了解项目的实施方式至关重要，但往往无法捕捉到项目随时间的演变情况，这意味着错失了吸取经验教训的机会。
本研究报告了一种分阶段进行过程评估的方法，该评估是在英国一个为期12个月的基于社区的体育活动项目中开展的，旨在捕捉项目实施过程中的变化和调整。在项目实施的3年中，进行了25次一对一访谈和12次焦点小组讨论。参与者包括项目参与者、管理人员和服务提供者。
通过持续的过程评估发现的项目调整包括宣传材料设计的变化、项目实施内容的变化、行为改变方面的持续培训，以及增加定期的参与者社区活动。作者阐述了这些方面在项目实施过程中的演变情况，以及过程评估是如何能够捕捉到它们的。
这种务实的评估方法能够根据当地情况做出改变，并及时捕捉到项目的改进之处，使项目实施具有响应性，评估具有灵活性。
