RAND suicide prevention program evaluation toolkit

• Author: National Defense Research Institute (U.S.) Forces and Resources Policy Center.
• VerfasserIn: Acosta, Joie D; Kofner, Aaron; Becker, Amariah; Ramchand, Rajeev; Felton, Alexandria
• TeilnehmendeR: Kofner, Aaron; Becker, Amariah; Ramchand, Rajeev; Felton, Alexandria; National Defense Research Institute (U.S.) Forces and Resources Policy Center.; United States
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : Rand Corporation, 2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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...

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.