Decision Support System for Youth Well Being

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请包括完成青年福祉决策支持系统(DSS-YWB)开发所需的活动，这是一个基于网络的应用程序，旨在帮助满足那些管理影响健康和有害青少年行为流行的项目的人的需求。第一阶段的原型DSS-YWB基于反馈回路的概念，该回路有四个组件，每个组件都与用户决策相关。这些系统组件-规划、实施、衡量和比较-作为一个组织框架，用于提供工具，使用户能够做出、记录和捍卫对在教育和其他服务环境中纳入有效实践至关重要的决策。第二阶段的目标是修改和扩展这些组件，以生产该计划的商业版本。将利用对第一阶段原型的现有评价、对与青年取得积极成果有关的因素的研究以及对采用、实施和维持有效做法的障碍的分析来推动系统修改活动。初步评估将包括焦点小组和对该计划的Alpha修订版进行内部测试。Alpha测试的结果，加上项目顾问对该计划的审查，将导致开发Beta版本，该版本将通过在俄勒冈州12个县的人类服务决策小组中同时复制四组多基线设计进行评估。在每一次复制中，Beta版本将一次引入一个组，其影响将与尚未接触该计划的组进行比较。我们将比较用于(A)确定目标行为、(B)选择相关干预措施、(C)设定变革目标和(D)衡量干预措施效果的方法的评估。由此产生的系统整合了协助决策者采用、执行、维持和监测有效干预措施所需的所有工具，应该证明对那些负责花费公共资源增进青年福祉的人非常有用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application encompasses those activities required to complete development of a Decision Support System for Youth Well-Being (DSS-YWB), a web-based application designed to help meet the needs of those who manage programs that influence the prevalence of healthy and harmful adolescent behaviors. The Phase I prototype DSS-YWB is based on the concept of a feedback loop with four components, each of which is related to user decisions. These system components- Plan, Implement, Measure, and Compare - serve as an organizing framework for presenting tools that enable users to make, document, and defend decisions critical to incorporating efficacious practices in educational and other service settings. The goal for Phase II is to modify and expand these components to produce a commercial version of the program. Existing evaluations of the Phase I prototype, research on factors related to positive outcomes for youth, and analyses of barriers to the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of effective practices will be used to drive system modification activities. Initial evaluation will involve focus group and in-house testing of an Alpha revision of the program. The results of Alpha testing, coupled with reviews of the program by project consultants, will lead to the development of a Beta version, which will be evaluated using three concurrent replications of a four-group multiple-baseline design across human service decision-making groups in 12 Oregon counties. In each replication, the Beta version will be introduced to one group at a time and its impact will be compared to those groups not yet exposed to the program. We will compare assessments of the methods employed to (a) identify target behaviors, (b) select relevant interventions, (c) set goals for change, and (d) measure the effect of interventions. The resulting system, which integrates all of the tools required to assist decision makers in adopting, implementing, maintaining, and monitoring effective interventions, should prove to be highly useful to those charged with expending public resources to increase youth well-being.