Tuberculosis Epidemiologic Studies Consortium (TBESC)

Task Order 15: Enhancing TB programs capacity for self-evaluation: testing new tools and developing an evaluation toolkit

Task Order 15 is a project to develop user-friendly tools that can be used to evaluate local and state TB programs. The goal of the project is for programs to obtain technical assistance in evaluation so that they are able to implement program evaluation.

Sites

American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago, Research Triangle Institute, and New York State Health Research Inc.

Study Objectives

1. Engage and involve partners from state and local programs to develop and test the draft tools, and to improve the draft tools, based on the field tests to provide state and local TB control
2. Provide TB programs with a flexible, useful toolkit to properly and efficiently conduct self-evaluations to ultimately improve performance.

Study Design

This project is designed develop and pilot test evaluation tools under programmatic and operational conditions to determine their suitability and utility. Local programs will implement the draft tools to conduct self-evaluations, and based on their experiences, the local programs will also evaluate the tools for utility, feasibility, and accuracy. They will also record what adaptations were necessary to make the tools more useful in the field. Tools and materials that emerge from the pilot tests will be disseminated to TB programs nationally to use as part of their routine evaluation activities.

Study Progress

The Illinois site found that they had important variations among local programs’ operations. They addressed this by revising policies and procedures to promote more standardization and have integrated their findings into their program’s general evaluation plan. New York State has found that their method of examining case management provides them, at the state level, with important information about program activities and permits targeted assistance. They will repeat the assessments in additional counties and build this into their on-going program evaluation activities. South Carolina continues to develop test evaluation tools related to contact investigations.

Last Modified: 07/25/2007

Last Reviewed: 05/18/2008
Content Source: Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention

 
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