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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"realist evaluation"”.
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Third sector telephone housing options service for older people : a realist evaluation
… specialist housing? This thesis takes a realist philosophical perspective and realist evaluation approach (context-mechanism-outcome configuration - CMOc). Key methods include a focus group with service advisors (to develop programme theory), access to the service setting, analysis of …
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A critical realist evaluation of end of life care in care homes.
… A two-phased study design utilising Critical Realist Evaluation was used to address this gap in knowledge and achieve the study aim. Qualitative data was collected (using focus groups and semi-structured interviews) from three care homes in the South West of England from participants …
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Third sector telephone housing options service for older people: a realist evaluation.
… specialist housing? This thesis takes a realist philosophical perspective and realist evaluation approach (context-mechanism-outcome configuration - CMOc). Key methods include a focus group with service advisors (to develop programme theory), access to the service setting, analysis of …
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Farm-animal-assisted interventions: a systematic scoping review, realist synthesis, and realist evaluation
… FAAIs improve human health, and for whom; a realist synthesis was conducted. A realist evaluation explored in which circumstances FAAIS are adopted by the NHS in Northern Ireland.<br/><br/>Results: <br/>Thirty-six publications were identified via the scoping review. Positive results …
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More Than Tea And Cake: A Realist Evaluation Of Memory Cafés In Cornwall
… with dementia and their carers. Methodology: Realist methodology is a theory driven approach that seeks to explain why a programme works, for whom and in what circumstances. The research consisted of three stages. Firstly, the development of initial programme theories through a realist review. …
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Postgraduate blended learning for NHS Educational Supervisors: A realist evaluation of impact on professional practice.
… participants. I used a two-stage, qualitative, realist evaluation research design to evaluate a university accredited, blended learning module for Educational Supervisors. The first stage of the project involved semi structured interviews with four members of module staff and analysis of the …
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A Realist Evaluation of the usability of the Welsh Community Care Information System (WCCIS) in a South Wales Valley
… System - WCCIS) in a South Wales Valley. The evaluation adopts a realist approach to examine whether WCCIS is usable for the end practitioners, how is it usable and for whom and under what circumstances?" (Pawson, 2006).<br/><br/><b>Methods–</b><br/>The thesis is structured using the Rameses …
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“Canvassing the Context”: An exploration of the context of the Holding Hands Parenting Programme using principles of Realist Evaluation.
Principles of Realist Evaluation (Pawson & Tilley, 1997) were used alongside a framework based on Realist Social Theory (Archer, 1995; De Souza, 2013) in order to explore and explain the nature of the local parenting context in which the Holding Hands Parenting Programme (HHPP) was both embedded …
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Cancer nurses' assessment practice in the outpatient chemotherapy unit: a realist evaluation of the introduction of an assessment tool
… assessment of patient need. This case study used realist evaluation to identify the impact of introducing a quality of life assessment tool in two outpatient chemotherapy units. Qualitative methods of non-participant observation, audio-recording, and individual interviews were used. 38 patients …
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The design, implementation and testing of a technology enhanced learning evaluation tool for healthcare professional education programmes:: A Realist Evaluation Study
… no practical standard tools to assist with the evaluation of TEL within healthcare professional education .With this comes the potential for TEL healthcare education programmes for practitioners to continue to: fail to achieve the uptake at scale that policy and service requires; fail to deliver …
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Mechanisms, contexts and outcomes of interprofessional education in a student-run interprofessional clinic - a realist evaluation approach to developing programme theory.
… study addresses this knowledge gap through a realist evaluation of a SRC, developing programme theories that identify and explain participant outcomes. Method: Using a qualitative approach and a single-case study design, clinic documentation were analysed and realist semi-structured interviews …
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Outcome feedback in physiotherapy: What works for whom in which circumstances?
A realist evaluation study researching the impact of feeding back patient reported outcome measures to patients with shoulder pain and the impact on behaviour.
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A Critical Realist Informed Evaluation of End-of-Life Care for People with Dementia in Hospitals
… research design underpinned by critical realist evaluation. Critical realist evaluation provided both the conceptual framework and analytical lens to explore how interventions in end-of-life care for people with dementia in hospitals succeed or fail. The evaluation was structured around …
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A Critical Exploration of Social Transformation Through Occupation
… study applied critical occupational science and realist theoretical frameworks to examine the use of arts-based occupations for social transformation. It comprised three strands: (1) a narrative review of arts-based occupations in social change, (2) a realist review of participatory photography, …
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Public health burden of diabetes in Ireland: time trends, determinants of complications and the implementation of a public health intervention to improve health outcomes for people with diabetes
… the Blind of Ireland, (2004–2013). Finally, a realist evaluation was carried out to evaluate the initial uptake of the national diabetic retinopathy screening programme. Results: In adults aged 18 years and over, the national prevalence of doctor diagnosed diabetes significantly increased from …
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A realistic evaluation of early warning systems and acute care training for early recognition and management of deteriorating ward-based patients
… Northern Ireland. It followed the principles of Realist Evaluation research which allowed empirical data to be gathered to test and refine Rapid Response System programme theory. This approach used a variety of mixed methods to test the programme theories including individual and focus group …
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The impact and use of patient feedback in general practice: A realist review
… of care. <br/>This research study used realist review of existing literature to understand the impact of patient feedback at practice and practitioner level on patients’ experiences of general practice care, and realist evaluation of three general practices to understand how patient …
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A Realist Study of Self-management Apps to help People living with Chronic Low Back Pain
… The research was designed in two parts, a realist<br/>synthesis followed by a realist evaluation.<br/><b>Realist Synthesis</b><br/>Six databases and several non-academic sources were searched.<br/>Sources were selected and appraised for relevancy, richness, and<br/>rigour. Nineteen realist …
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Understanding the Role of Non-federal Funding Match on the Effectiveness of a U.S. Strategy to Strengthen Academic Research Competitiveness Nationwide
… understand causality. It does so by employing a realist evaluation framework. Rather than ask if nonfederal funding match worked, this study asks: What about non-federal matching to NSF EPSCoR worked for whom in what context and how? It required defining a clear measure of success outcome by …
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Strengthening district management as a key lever in health system strengthening: bottom up innovation in two district health systems in South Africa
… The overarching methodology of the PhD was realist evaluation, and a case study design was used. An initial context mapping process allowed understanding the broader context of reform and supported the development of programme theories in each of two case study sites. The programme theories …
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