TY - JOUR
T1 - Bridging science and practice
T2 - The integrated model of community-based evaluation (imcbe)
AU - Telfair, Joseph
AU - Mulvihill, Beverly A.
N1 - A trend in community-based evaluation studies is to include everyone affected by the work, the community, administrators and participants, in their design and implementation. This concept has been accepted by communities and community evaluators, but a concern persists that the scientific integrity, reliability, and validity of these studies are compromised.
PY - 2008/10/11
Y1 - 2008/10/11
N2 - A trend in community-based evaluation studies is to include everyone affected by the work, the community, administrators and participants, in their design and implementation. This concept has been accepted by communities and community evaluators, but a concern persists that the scientific integrity, reliability, and validity of these studies are compromised. To address these concerns we present both the multi-conceptual and hands-on practical aspects of the Integrated Model of Community Based Evaluation (IMCBE) and illustrate the utility of the IMCBE with the case example of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of the Piedmont's (Greensboro, North Carolina) Home Health Study (HHS). The IMCBE is conceptually sound and joins social scientific rigor with an understanding of the elements essential to addressing community members' and agencies' need for meaningful outcomes that determine the efficiency and effectiveness of their efforts. The IMCBE promotes a “best fit” approach of adapting the evaluation to the unique problem or intervention to be examined. © 2000 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
AB - A trend in community-based evaluation studies is to include everyone affected by the work, the community, administrators and participants, in their design and implementation. This concept has been accepted by communities and community evaluators, but a concern persists that the scientific integrity, reliability, and validity of these studies are compromised. To address these concerns we present both the multi-conceptual and hands-on practical aspects of the Integrated Model of Community Based Evaluation (IMCBE) and illustrate the utility of the IMCBE with the case example of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of the Piedmont's (Greensboro, North Carolina) Home Health Study (HHS). The IMCBE is conceptually sound and joins social scientific rigor with an understanding of the elements essential to addressing community members' and agencies' need for meaningful outcomes that determine the efficiency and effectiveness of their efforts. The IMCBE promotes a “best fit” approach of adapting the evaluation to the unique problem or intervention to be examined. © 2000 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
KW - Community evaluators
KW - IMCBE
KW - Models
KW - Sickle cell
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84937329369
U2 - 10.1300/j125v07n03_03
DO - 10.1300/j125v07n03_03
M3 - Article
SN - 1070-5422
VL - 7
SP - 37
EP - 65
JO - Journal of Community Practice
JF - Journal of Community Practice
IS - 3
ER -