TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of health promotion capacity gains in a state-wide rural food literacy intervention
AU - Palermo, Claire
AU - Van Herwerden, Louise
AU - Maugeri, Isabella
AU - McKenzie-Lewis, Fiona
AU - Hughes, Roger
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge Alice Cameron, Chloe Dyce, Connie Conyard, Rebecca Norris and Renaye Gadsby as members of the project team who assisted with data collection. Associate Professor Cate Lombard who contributed to the research design but who became ill during the data collection and passed away is also acknowledged. The Queensland Country Women’s Association Country Kitchens Program is funded by the Queensland Government. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those held by the Queensland Government or the Queensland Government Department of Health. The funder was not involved in the design of the study, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, or writing of the manuscript.
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© 2019 La Trobe University.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Building capacity to enhance health promotion intervention effectiveness is a desirable, difficult to achieve and rarely evaluated aspect of practice. This study aims to describe an approach for evaluating capacity building embedded in a state-wide health promotion intervention that had a primary objective of enhancing food literacy and secondary objective of building health promotion capacity. The multi-strategy rural food literacy intervention centred on a group-based, hands-on learning workshop series. Logic modelling, theory of change and clarification of the explicit assumption of the intervention relating to food literacy and capacity building objectives were documented. The evaluation approach acknowledged the complexity of the intervention that utilised a food literacy program as a vessel to build relationships, enabling capacity-building strategies over time, and used multiple forms of data to measure organisational, community and individual capacity. The development of a shared mixed method program evaluation plan was achieved through co-design. One-hundred and twenty-Two peer facilitators were trained across 81 communities and reported increases in self-efficacy for health promotion action. There was broad awareness and support for the program within the organisation. The majority (75%) of communities involved in the intervention implemented at least one health promotion activity, demonstrating some health promotion capacity gain.
AB - Building capacity to enhance health promotion intervention effectiveness is a desirable, difficult to achieve and rarely evaluated aspect of practice. This study aims to describe an approach for evaluating capacity building embedded in a state-wide health promotion intervention that had a primary objective of enhancing food literacy and secondary objective of building health promotion capacity. The multi-strategy rural food literacy intervention centred on a group-based, hands-on learning workshop series. Logic modelling, theory of change and clarification of the explicit assumption of the intervention relating to food literacy and capacity building objectives were documented. The evaluation approach acknowledged the complexity of the intervention that utilised a food literacy program as a vessel to build relationships, enabling capacity-building strategies over time, and used multiple forms of data to measure organisational, community and individual capacity. The development of a shared mixed method program evaluation plan was achieved through co-design. One-hundred and twenty-Two peer facilitators were trained across 81 communities and reported increases in self-efficacy for health promotion action. There was broad awareness and support for the program within the organisation. The majority (75%) of communities involved in the intervention implemented at least one health promotion activity, demonstrating some health promotion capacity gain.
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U2 - 10.1071/PY18182
DO - 10.1071/PY18182
M3 - Article
C2 - 31196380
AN - SCOPUS:85067369755
SN - 1448-7527
VL - 25
SP - 250
EP - 255
JO - Australian Journal of Primary Health
JF - Australian Journal of Primary Health
IS - 3
ER -