Does attitude hinder or help selecting evaluation questions?
Background: Positive attitude leads to a more successfully implementation of a change. We investigated the effect of attitudes of stakeholders toward a program on their prioritization of the program components for selecting the key question of a theory-driven evaluation with concept mapping method....
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| description | Background: Positive attitude leads to a more successfully implementation of a change. We investigated the effect of attitudes of stakeholders toward a program on their prioritization of the program components for selecting the key question of a theory-driven evaluation with concept mapping method. Materials and Methods: During a brainstorming session, stated statements defined the program components. Then they were sorted and rated regarding the importance and feasibility of them. In addition, the attitudes of participants were assessed by a 30 items questionnaire extracted from a pool named as "50 reasons not to change." We determined and compared the consensus points of participants both with and without of considering their attitudes toward the program. Results: The participants were divided into two groups of high (45% - above the mean) and low (55% - below the mean) attitude. Brainstorming discussions generated a pool of almost 120 statements which were subsequently refined to 44 statements. Matching the rating scores between two attitude groups yielded a consensus at a higher priority than the other method. Conclusion: In the concept mapping procedure, it is crucial to reach the consensus with respect to the participants′ attitude, rather than the similarity of mean scores of feasibility and importance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4b594ce38e334d2cb94cebc29c6e77582022-12-22T02:50:11ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Research in Medical Sciences1735-19951735-71362015-01-0120659059410.4103/1735-1995.165968Does attitude hinder or help selecting evaluation questions?Behzad ShamsMostafa DehghaniBackground: Positive attitude leads to a more successfully implementation of a change. We investigated the effect of attitudes of stakeholders toward a program on their prioritization of the program components for selecting the key question of a theory-driven evaluation with concept mapping method. Materials and Methods: During a brainstorming session, stated statements defined the program components. Then they were sorted and rated regarding the importance and feasibility of them. In addition, the attitudes of participants were assessed by a 30 items questionnaire extracted from a pool named as "50 reasons not to change." We determined and compared the consensus points of participants both with and without of considering their attitudes toward the program. Results: The participants were divided into two groups of high (45% - above the mean) and low (55% - below the mean) attitude. Brainstorming discussions generated a pool of almost 120 statements which were subsequently refined to 44 statements. Matching the rating scores between two attitude groups yielded a consensus at a higher priority than the other method. Conclusion: In the concept mapping procedure, it is crucial to reach the consensus with respect to the participants′ attitude, rather than the similarity of mean scores of feasibility and importance.http://www.jmsjournal.net/article.asp?issn=1735-1995;year=2015;volume=20;issue=6;spage=590;epage=594;aulast=ShamsAttitudeevaluation questionladder graphvalue |
| spellingShingle | Behzad Shams Mostafa Dehghani Does attitude hinder or help selecting evaluation questions? Journal of Research in Medical Sciences Attitude evaluation question ladder graph value |
| title | Does attitude hinder or help selecting evaluation questions? |
| title_full | Does attitude hinder or help selecting evaluation questions? |
| title_fullStr | Does attitude hinder or help selecting evaluation questions? |
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| title_short | Does attitude hinder or help selecting evaluation questions? |
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| topic | Attitude evaluation question ladder graph value |
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