Preparing Facilitators From Community-Based Organizations for Evidence-Based Intervention Training in Second Life

Preparing for evidence-based management

or writing impenetrable reports, or publishing in research journals that are obscure and inaccessible? Are researchers failing to adequately explain to practitioners how to carry the ideas into practice? All of these diagnoses assume that the problem lies on the production side of the breakdown, and not on the consumer side. What if the pathology lies in poor practice? Do business professionals...

Prioritization Community Selection Criteria for Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Intervention

Prioritization Community Selection Criteria for Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Intervention Vahid Ghanbari 1, Ali Ardalan 2, Sirus Salari 3, Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh 2, Mahboubeh Rahimi 4, Farzaneh Talebi 3, Reza Abbaszadeh 2, Asghar Tavan 5, Arezoo Yari 2, 6, * 1School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran 2Department of Disaster and Eme...

Challenges and facilitators to building program evaluation capacity among community-based organizations.

We have been collaborating with many community-based organizations (CBOs) to increase their capacity to implement our evidence-based HIV prevention intervention. A frequent issue in these collaborations is how CBOs can evaluate their implementation of the intervention using feasible and sound methods. This study sought to provide the foundation for evaluation recommendations, tools, training, a...

Effect of Evidence Based Community Visits for Risk Factors of Crimean-Congo Fever on Students’ Learning

Introduction: Changing the focus of teaching from patient to community is an educational strategy. The effect of evidence based community visits for risk factors of Crimean-Congo fever on students’ learning was investigated in this study. Methods: In this quasi-experimental study in year 2010, 36 nursing students of Birjand University of Medical Sciences were selected through purposive samplin...

Faith-Based Organizations In Community Development