Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Evaluation & the Health Professions
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Brekke, J. S.
Right arrow Articles by Wolkon, G. H.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Brekke, J. S.
Right arrow Articles by Wolkon, G. H.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Monitoring Program Implementation in Community Mental Health Settings

John S. Brekke

George H. Wolkon

School of Social Work University of Southern California

Evaluations that monitor program implementation provide an empirical description of a programs setvices, the population seived, and a method for assessing whether the program as delivered matches the conceptual model on which it is based. This article presents the Daily Contact Log (DCL), an instrument that has been used to monitor the longitudinal form and content of services delivered in several community mental health care programs for persons with chronic mental illness. The instrument is described and directions for its use are detailed. The psychometric properties of the instrument are discussed, as is its evolution in multisite applications in various mental health care settings. The usefulness of the DCL for programmatic and research purposes is outlined, as are some secondary benefits to staff who use the instrument. While the viability and versatility of the DCL as an instrument for measuring important aspects of program implementation are stressed, its appropriateness for quality assurance analyses is also suggested.

Evaluation & the Health Professions, Vol. 11, No. 4, 425-440 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/016327878801100402
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Health Educ ResHome page
L. Dusenbury, R. Brannigan, M. Falco, and W. B. Hansen
A review of research on fidelity of implementation: implications for drug abuse prevention in school settings
Health Educ. Res., April 1, 2003; 18(2): 237 - 256.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]