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Translating a comprehensive injury policy evaluation guide into guidance for state injury staff
Phillip W. Graham, DrPH, MPH
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Crime, Violence, and Justice Research Program, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
Elizabeth Zurick, MA, MPH
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National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Chris Jones, Ph.D.
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Division of Analysis, Research and Practice Integration, Program Integration and Evaluation Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Atlanta, GA
Paige Cucchi, MSPH
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Division of Analysis, Research and Practice Integration, Program Integration and Evaluation Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Atlanta, GA
Holly Morton
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Atlanta, GA
Claudia Squire, MS
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RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
In 2012, CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control worked with Cloudburst Group to develop a Policy Evaluation Guide for NCIPC staff. NCIPC is now working with RTI and Cloudburst Group to translate the full guide into a set of brief guidance documents for use by state health departments. The focus of this poster presentation will be to present the process, including some of the major challenges, in translating the 100-page comprehensive guide into 7 short briefs without losing the important content. In addition, the presentation will provide an overview of the steps taken to overcome these challenges and provide a description of the final documents developed and disseminated to states. These steps for developing the documents included the following: a brief survey of state staff around knowledge and use of policy evaluation; identification of key topic areas concepts within the policy evaluation guide; identification of appropriate modality for dissemination; and testing of the briefs with a small sample of state injury center staff. Ultimately the team identified seven key topic areas for the briefs which will be disseminated on the NCIPC website. The poster will present the key concepts covered in the seven briefs and describe the way the information was presented in a concise and user-friendly manner. In addition, the poster will describe how the briefs will be used to increase the capacity of states to conduct and interpret policy evaluations.
Learning Areas:
Communication and informatics
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Public health or related public policy
Learning Objectives:
Identify the challenge of translating a lengthy comprehensive guidance document into concise but meaningful guidance for state injury staff.
Describe the key steps in the process of translating lengthy guidance documents into tools for use by state injury staff.
Describe the key concepts presented in the final documents and how they relate to the intended uses.
Discuss lessons learned through this process to inform the development of other tools designed for use by state and local injury professionals.
Keywords: Evaluation, Communication
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have worked closely with NCIPC, both through direct contract and through subcontract to RTI, to develop both the policy evaluation guide and the state policy evaluation briefs.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
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