1. Process Evaluation of the Healthy Campus Environmental Audits.
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Clark, B., Brown, K., Brubaker, H., Brown, L., Obojkovitz, K., Mihalko, S., Carroll, B., Hill, A., Gardner, E., and Horacek, T.
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AUDITING , *CONFERENCES & conventions , *ECOLOGY , *QUALITY assurance , *EVALUATION of human services programs - Abstract
Background: Evaluating training and tools used in research is a valuable approach to determine reliability, type-3 errors, and areas of improvement. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ease of use and the effectiveness of the Healthy Campus Environmental Audits (HCEA) training/quizzes and tools utilized in the GetFRUVED social media intervention study. Methods: HCEA assesses the healthfulness of dining/restaurants, convenience stores, vending, recreation services/programs, walkability/bike-ability and policies. Quiz attempts, and results were tracked. A 39-question web-based survey designed and pilot-tested for this study was administered online to 88 GetFRUVED participating schools. The survey questions assessed demographics, training materials/platform, quizzes, and each specific HCEA audit tool. The survey collected both Likert scale [1-low to 5-high] and qualitative data; analysis included non-parametric statistics. Results: Participants included 163 individuals, 51.3% underclass research assistants. Most participants (50%) spent 1-2 hours on training for their audit and majority (66%) viewed the training while taking the quiz. Most of the survey questions regarding audit ease of use/effectiveness scored on average between 3.0 and 4.0. Of the 62 strengths/benefits open-ended responses, 31% indicated HCEA audit tool was easy to use. Of the 58 improvement comments, 16% had technology issues while using the audits; yet 38% wouldn’t make any changes to the HCEA audit tool. Conclusion: From these results, we can conclude that the HCEA training and audit tools can be useful and reliable in future projects, but we must add in some stop gaps between training and quizzes and improve some technology issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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