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Report of the Roundtable on Multicultural Issues in Mental Health Services Evaluation
A Roundtable discussion (working conference) of multicultural issues in Mental Health services evaluation was held in Tucson, AZ on November 1-2, 1996. The goals of the Roundtable were to begin discussion among persons with multicultural expertise regarding the content, methodology, and design of mental health evaluations that would be sensitive to multicultural issues and to identify technical assistance options that could be implemented using the available resources of the Evaluation Center@HSRI. This report summarizes the … Read More
Date: 3/1998
Author(s): Prepared by Evaluation Group for the Analysis of Data (EGAD) with collaboration from the Evaluation Center@HSRI.
Integrating Process and Outcome Evaluation
This Toolkit, developed by a team at ROW Sciences, Inc., describes an approach to organizing multi-level or hierarchical data, such as those collected in a multi-site study, to facilitate analysis of data from multiple levels (e.g., characteristics of sites, characteristics of provider or managed care organizations, consumer characteristics, service utilization, and consumer outcomes). The process for constructing a project-level database involves assembling a team, collecting relevant program/site level information from a variety of … Read More
Date: 3/1998
Author(s): Margaret Blasinsky, Barbara Cohen, Howard Goldman, Kevin Hambrecht, Matthew Johnsen, Wendy Landow, Rob Orwin, and Joseph Sonnefeld
Performance Measurement Using the MHSIP Consumer Oriented Report Card
This Toolkit has been developed to support users of the MHSIP Consumer-Oriented Report Card, a set of performance indicators and measures developed by the Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program (MHSIP). The Toolkit provides guidance to persons implementing a performance measurement system on a host of practical and methodological topics. The Toolkit is organized into six chapters: Introduction, Planning and Organizing your Performance Measurement System, Design and Methods, Data Management and Analysis, Reporting Results, and Evaluating … Read More
Date: 11/1998
Author(s): The Evaluation Center @ HSRI
Research Shows Ethnicity a Factor
This issue discusses the growing body of research that has begun to demonstrate how racial and ethnic groups respond differently to psychiatric medication. … Read More
Date: 10/1998
Author(s): Evaluation Center@HSRI
A Tale of Two Networks
This paper explores the dynamics of two electronic discussion lists: one established to promote the discussion of mental health outcomes research and evaluation and the other established to discuss the application of evaluation to issues related to mental health and the law. After a year and a half, participants in the former continued to discuss issues according to their original goal. The latter discussion list, on the other hand, had changed from being the more … Read More
Date: 09/1998
Author(s): Prepared by the Evaluation Center@HSRI.