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RAND suicide prevention program evaluation toolkit /

Evaluating suicide prevention programs can be challenging because suicide is a rare event, data on suicides often lag by several years, and programs tend to have multiple components, making it difficult to discern which characteristics contributed to a given outcome. The RAND Suicide Prevention Prog...

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Main Authors: Acosta, Joie D. (Author), Ramchand, Rajeev (Author), Becker, Amariah (Author), Felton, Alexandria (Author), Kofner, Aaron (Author)
Corporate Authors: United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense (sponsoring body.), JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2013.
Subjects:
Suicidal behavior > Treatment > United States.
Suicide > United States > Prevention > Evaluation.
Suicide > prevention & control.
Program Evaluation > methods.
United States.
PSYCHOLOGY > Suicide.
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Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and overview
  • Identify your program's core components and build a logic model
  • Design an evaluation for your program
  • Select evaluation measures for your program
  • Analyze your program's evaluation data
  • Use evaluation data to improve your program
  • Appendix A: Summary of program evaluation studies, by program type
  • Appendix B: Glossary of terms.