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A Model of Substance Abuse Risk: Adapting to the Sri Lankan Context
This study translated and validated the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS) among 13 to 18 year old Sri Lankan adolescents attending school. A standard systematic translation procedure was followed to translate the original SURPS into Sinhala language. A Delphi process was conducted to determine judgmental validity of Sinhala SURPS. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed to test the tr…
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- Volume 33, Number. 1. February 2009 pp. 83-97
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The Effectiveness of an Electronic Security Management System in a Privately …
Poisson and negative binomial regression methods are used to analyze the monthly time series data to determine the effects of introducing an integrated security management system including closed-circuit television (CCTV), door alarm monitoring, proximity card access, and emergency call boxes to a large privately-owned complex of apartment buildings in New York City. Crime rates in a control ap…
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- Volume 33, Number 1, February 2009. pp.3-26
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Curriculum Evaluation and Revision in a Nascent Field: The Utility of the Res…
Although most academic disciplines evolve at a measured pace, the emerging field of homeland security must, for reasons of safety and security, evolve rapidly. The Department of Homeland Security sponsored the establishment of a graduate educational program for key officials holding homeland security roles. Because homeland security is a nascent field, the establishment of a program curriculum …
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- Volume 33, Number. 1, February 2009. pp 54-82
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Poverty and Gender Perspective in Productive Projects for Rural Women in Mexi…
The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of a pilot study that promoted productive and capacity-building activities among deprived rural women of Mexico. The evaluation design is observational; 1,278 women are interviewed, and the comparison group is estimated by propensity score matching. The results show a positive impact on the carrying out of agricultural activities, in the aut…
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- Volume 33, Number 1, February 2009. pp. 27-53
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Mapping Excellence in National Research Systems: The Case of Italy
The study of "scientific excellence" is taking on increasing importance in the development of research policies in many nations. However, scientific excellence is difficult to define because of its multidimensional and highly complex character. This work contributes to the state of the art by exploring an effective, simple, and inexpensive bibliometric methodology that further identifies "excel…
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- Volume 33, Number 2 April 2009, pp. 159-188
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Evidence for Substance Abuse Services and Policy Research, A Systematic Revie…
We reviewed 39 national government- and nongovernment-sponsored data sets related to substance addiction policy. These data sets describe patients with substance use disorders (SUDs), treatment providers and the services they offer, and/or expenditures on treatment. Findings indicate the availability of reliable data on the prevalence of SUD and the characteristics of specialty treatment facili…
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- Volume 33, Number 2, April 2009 103-137
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Projected Sustainability of Innovative Social Programs
This study is an exploratory examination of the projected sustainability of more than 100 projects funded by the Australian government. Using data collected by the body that evaluated the projects and data from a government database, it examines the predictors of various forms of sustainability. Findings show that some two thirds of the project leaders who expected their programs to continue af…
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- Volume 33, Number 2, April 2009. pp. 189-205
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Use of Web and In-Person Survey Modes to Gather Data From Young Adults on Sex…
In a randomized test of mixed-mode data collection strategies, 386 participants in the Raising Healthy Children (RHC) Project were either (a) asked to complete a survey via the Internet and later offered the opportunity to complete the survey in person or (b) first offered an in-person survey, with the Web follow-up. The Web-first condition resulted in cost savings although the overall completi…
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- Volume 33, Number 2, April 2009. pp. 138-158
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A Statistical Perspective on the Design of Drug-Court Studies
Recent meta-analyses of drug-court studies recognized the poor methodological quality of the evaluations, with only a few being randomized. This article critiques the design of the randomized studies from a statistical perspective. Learning points are identified for future drug-court studies and are applicable to evaluations both of other specialist courts and of court-based interventions more …
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- Vol. 33, No. 3, June 2009. pp. 257-280
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Institutional Design and Utilization of Evaluation: A Contribution to a Theor…
Growing interest in the institutionalization of evaluation in the public administration raises the question as to which institutional arrangement offers optimal conditions for the utilization of evaluations. Institutional arrangement denotes the formal organization of processes and competencies, together with procedural rules, that are applicable independently of individual evaluation projects.…
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- Vol. 33, No. 3, June 2009. pp. 226-256
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Predicting Drug Use at Electronic Music Dance Events: Self-Reports and Biolog…
Most information on the prevalence of drug use comes from self-report surveys. The sensitivity of such information is cause for concern about the accuracy of self-report measures. In this study, self-reported drug use in the last 48 hr is compared to results from biological assays of saliva samples from 371 young adults entering clubs. The relationship between self-reports and drug presence in …
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- Vol. 33, No. 3, June 2009.pp. 211-225
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Old Wine in New Skins: The Sensitivity of Established Findings to New Methods
Findings from an evaluation of a model system for delivering mental health services to youth were reassessed to determine the robustness of key findings to the use of methodologies unavailable to the original analysts. These analyses address a key concern about earlier findings—that the quasi-experimental design involved the comparison of two noncomparable groups. The authors employed propensit…
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- Vol. 33, No. 3, June 2009. pp. 281-306
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Design and Analysis of the Community Youth Development Study Longitudinal Coh…
Communities That Care (CTC) is a prevention system designed to reduce adolescent substance use and delinquency through the selection of effective preventive interventions tailored to a community's specific profile of risk and protection. A community-randomized trial of CTC, the Community Youth Development Study, is currently being conducted in 24 communities across the United States. This artic…
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- Vol. 33, No. 4, August 2009.pp. 311-334
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Incorporating Cost in Power Analysis for Three-Level Cluster-Randomized Designs
In experimental designs with nested structures, entire groups (such as schools) are often assigned to treatment conditions. Key aspects of the design in these cluster-randomized experiments involve knowledge of the intraclass correlation structure, the effect size, and the sample sizes necessary to achieve adequate power to detect the treatment effect. However, the units at each level of the hi…
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- Vol. 33, No. 4, August 2009. pp. 335-357
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The Impact of Active Consent Procedures on Nonresponse and Nonresponse Error …
This article reports results from a student survey fielded using an experimental design with 14 Kentucky school districts. Seven of the 14 districts were randomly assigned to implement the survey with active consent procedures; the other seven districts implemented the survey with passive consent procedures. We used our experimental design to investigate the impact of consent procedures on (a) …
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- Vol. 33, No. 4, August 2009. pp. 370-395
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Review and Analysis of Laws Related to Strangulation in 50 States
Nonlethal strangulation of intimate partners has substantial direct health effects and is associated with an increased risk of later lethal violence by a partner or ex-intimate partner but can be difficult to prosecute under felony assault statutes. After review of state laws regarding assault, the authors identified 10 states with specific legislation related to strangulation as of March 2009 …
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- Vol. 33, No. 4, August 2009.pp. 358-369
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The Social Construction of ``Evidence-Based'' Drug Prevention Programs: A Rea…
This study explores the possibility that any drug prevention program might be considered ``evidence-based'' given the use of data analysis procedures that optimize the chance of producing statistically significant results by reanalyzing data from a Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program evaluation. The analysis produced a number of statistically significant differences between the DARE …
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- Vol. 33, No. 4, August 2009.pp. 396-414
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A Comparison of Web-Based and Paper-Based Survey Methods: Testing Assumptions…
Web-based surveys have become more prevalent in areas such as evaluation, research, and marketing research to name a few. The proliferation of these online surveys raises the question, how do response rates compare with traditional surveys and at what cost? This research explored response rates and costs for Web-based surveys, paper surveys, and mixed-mode surveys. The participants included eva…
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- Volume 33, Number 5, October 2009.pp. 464-480
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Evaluating Monitoring Systems in the European Social Fund Context: A Sociotec…
In contrast to the prevailing image of monitoring systems as technical systems, it is proposed that they should rather be conceived of as social endeavors at exchanging information. Drawing on the monitoring and evaluation framework of Cornford, Doukidis, and Forster, the concept of information agreement is suggested as a way of assessing the quality of monitoring systems in context. Preliminar…
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- Volume 33, Number 5, October 2009.pp. 419-445
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Active Consent in Urban Elementary Schools: An Examination of Demographic Dif…
The consent process is an integral piece of research and evaluation studies, especially when conducted within a school setting. The challenge of reaching parents of students to obtain consent is an issue with which those conducting school-based studies grapple. The literature suggests that the success of the consent process can affect the representativeness of the sample. This study describes o…
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- Volume 33, Number 5, October 2009.pp. 481-496
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