Implementation of HIV Interventions Into Faith-Based Organizations: Models and Methodological Considerations

Methodological Considerations Regarding Cognitive Interventions in Dementia

1 Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2 UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (UIFCoN), Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile 3 National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina 4 Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Barranquilla, Colombia 5 ...

Faith-Based Organizations In Community Development

A response to Edzi (AIDS): Malawi faith-based organizations' impact on HIV prevention and care.

African faith-based organization (FBO) leaders influence their members' HIV knowledge, beliefs, and practices, but their roles in HIV prevention and care are poorly understood. This article expands the work of Garner (2000) to test the impact of FBO influence on member risk and care behaviors, embedding it in the Theory of Planned Behavior. Qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys were c...

Methodological Considerations in Designing and Evaluating Animal-Assisted Interventions

This paper presents a discussion of the literature on animal-assisted interventions and describes limitations surrounding current methodological quality. Benefits to human physical, psychological and social health cannot be empirically confirmed due to the methodological limitations of the existing body of research, and comparisons cannot validly be made across different studies. Without a soli...

Faith and Facts: Measuring and Improving the Effectiveness of Social Services Delivery by Faith-Based Organizations

Introduction Should faith-based organizations delivering social services be held to the same standards of accountability as other government and non-profit providers in measuring their effectiveness? Believing the answer to this question is yes, Volunteers of America, one of the country's largest faith-based social service providers, recently embarked on an ambitious effort to collect outcome d...