Pt1420 Unit 6 Assignment 1

Participant Contact: Participant attendance will be logged at every meeting, with a time in and time out section to keep track of contact hours for each participant. At the end of every session, attendance information will be entered into a participant database, so that every participants time in the program will be accounted for. During the pilot testing of the program, participants will be asked to identify any barriers that would prevent them from attending all eight sessions, and what would make them more likely to do so. Also, every meeting participants will be asked to provide feedback about the session each night to include yes and no questions such as, did you find tonights session useful? Open ended questions will also be asked, …show more content…
The design will be a pre-experimental one group pre test post test design. Diagram: Group A: O1………………X………………O2. This design has lower external validity than other randomized experimental studies. Selection: The participants will be selected on a volunteer basis as part of a convenience sample. In order to be selected, the participant must be the parent or guardian of at least one non-hispanic black child, under the age of six, living in a low-income household within Chatham County. Participants can also be referred into the program by a health care provider. Participants will be separated into groups based on proximity to where the sessions will be held, to make attendance for participants as easy as possible in hopes of preventing attrition. Pre/Post Tests and Surveys: All pre/post tests and surveys utilized in this program will be tested for validity utilizing the following method. First face validity will be established by sending materials out to subject matter experts for review. Recommended changes will be made, and then the materials will be pilot tested during focus groups. The data will be entered into excel and coded if needed. Statistics (Principal Components Analysis) will be run on the data and then it will be tested for internal consistency. Only after the materials are validated will they be utilized in the

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