A Web Questionnaire for Community Prevention Coalitions

描述(由申请者提供)：该项目的中心目标是对社区预防药物滥用联盟的评估和反馈系统进行可行性研究。我们解决的需要是制定一项关于联盟运作的跨记者评估，以帮助联盟了解它们的需要，并帮助确定技术援助的目标，以提高联盟的效力。在拟议的可行性研究中，我们将开发和试行一份基于网络的问卷，可以与社区预防联盟的成员一起实施。拟议的网上调查问卷的商业应用满足了两个截然不同但又相互关联的需求。首先，预防联盟的数量大大增加，因为私人和公共资助者和社区已经投资于以社区为基础的协调努力，以制定解决ATOD问题的战略。然而，相对廉价的评价和技术援助支持并未广泛获得，尽管越来越多的人认识到这种支持对所有预防方案，特别是复杂方案的有效性和可持续性非常重要。第二，缺乏预防联盟支助结构的部分原因是，方法上的障碍阻碍了对社区预防联盟的全面调查，而社区预防联盟将为这种支助结构提供信息。因此，开发基于网络的调查问卷和咨询系统将满足社区联盟对评价和支助的需要；同时，基于网络的调查问卷将成为一种工具，有助于研究人员以具有成本效益的方式评估预防联盟的特点。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The central aim of this project is to conduct a feasibility study of an assessment and feedback system for community substance-abuse prevention coalitions. The need we address is for the development of a cross reporter assessment of coalition functioning that can help coalitions understand their needs as well as to help target technical assistance to enhance coalition effectiveness. In the proposed feasibility study, we will develop and pilot a web-based questionnaire that can be implemented with members of community prevention coalitions. The commercial application of the proposed web questionnaire meets two distinct yet related needs. First, the number of prevention coalitions has expanded greatly as private and public funders and communities have invested in community-based, coordinated efforts to strategize solutions to ATOD problems. However, relatively inexpensive evaluation and technical assistance support has not been widely available, despite a growing recognition that such support is important to effectiveness and sustainability of all prevention programs particularly complex ones. Second, part of the reason for the lack of support structures for prevention coalitions is due to methodological obstacles preventing a full investigation of community prevention coalitions that would inform such support structures. Consequently, the development of the web-based questionnaire and consultation system will meet the need of community coalitions for evaluation and support; simultaneously, the web-based questionnaire will be an instrument that will facilitate researchers' ability to assess features of prevention coalitions in a cost-effective manner.