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Monitoring and Evaluation of Vida Vibrante: A Community Health Worker-led Diabetes Self-Management Project
Abstract
Introduction: Diabetes is a growing global health concern that affects 14% of Hispanic adults in Riverside County. As a result El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center (El Sol) created Vida Vibrante: a community health worker (promotor) led diabetes prevention and self-management program. Masters of Public Health (MPH) Global Health students partnered with El Sol to complete a process evaluation. The collaborative evaluation incorporated perspectives of the promotoras and the stakeholder, El Sol, to better assess the incorporation of Popular Education techniques into the curriculum.
Methods: Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools were developed and used to assess the quality of the program. Observation tools analyzed the fidelity of incorporation of popular education into the curriculum during the promotoras’ training and the eight-session intervention. The stakeholder and promotoras participated in key informant interviews in order to better understand their expectations of the Vida Vibrante program evaluation and to assess their satisfaction with the program.
Projected Results: Results of these evaluations recommended areas for future improvement of the implementation of the program and verified the adaptability of the Vida Vibrante curriculum and evaluation tools to other promotor-led programs.
Conclusion: The use of M&E tools allowed for the continuous improvement of the Vida Vibrante Diabetes Self-Management Project. The results were used for the development of a Community Health Worker curriculum that is effective and incorporates Popular Education as a means of empowering a community.
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Learning Areas:
Chronic disease management and preventionConduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Learning Objectives:
Explain the importance of incorporating Popular Education techniques to empower the community.
Describe how the process evaluation framework can be used for the evaluation of other community health worker curricula.
Describe how a collaborative approach to evaluation can shape the project development by incorporating the insights of the promotoras and stakeholders.
Keyword(s): Community Health Workers and Promoters, Evaluation
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am currently earning my Masters of Public Health at Loma Linda University School of Public Health. I have worked with community health workers for more than a year.
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.