Evaluation activities
focus on results by:
- managing and measuring program
performance
- improving the quality of HIV
prevention programs
- promoting accountability
Program Performance
Indicators
CDC Program Evaluation
Projects and Resources
Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Nonrandomized Designs (TREND)
Program Performance Indicators
As specified in the President’s
Management Agenda, CDC has incorporated
program performance indicators into its
cooperative agreements with HIV prevention
providers. The purpose is to improve
performance and accountability of programs.
Beginning in 2005 all directly funded health
departments and CBOs will report on measures
of HIV prevention planning, service
delivery, and evaluation activities. The
performance indicators will be used to
monitor progress in critical areas of HIV
prevention. The specific components of HIV
prevention programs addressed by the
indicators include:
- HIV infections
- community planning
- prevention activities
- Counseling, testing, and referral
services
- Partner counseling and referral
services
- Prevention for HIV-infected persons
- Health education and risk-reduction
activities
- Prevention of mother-to-child HIV
transmission
evaluation of reporting compliance
capacity building activities
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CDC Program Evaluation Projects and
Resources
Health Departments
Community-Based Organizations
Evaluation Capacity
Evaluation Methodology & Data System
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Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Nonrandomized Designs (TREND)
The
Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Nonrandomized Designs (TREND) Statement was developed in 2003, in consult with journal editors and HIV researchers, in an effort to improve the reporting standards for nonrandomized evaluations of behavioral and public health interventions. The key content on this TREND website is a 22-item checklist specifically developed to guide standardized reporting of nonrandomized controlled trials. This Checklist can be downloaded directly from the CDC website, along with a free pdf of the AJPH article that provides additional information about the TREND effort, process, and rationale for these reporting elements.
The TREND statement complements the widely adopted
Consolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials (CONSORT)
statement developed for randomized
controlled trials. The TREND and CONSORT statements are important for researchers, journal editors, funding agencies, and reviewers as guides to improve the quality of reporting research evaluations in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. A collective effort in promoting transparent reporting is needed to improve research synthesis and advance evidence-based recommendations for best practices and policies. We encourage all researchers, funding agencies, journal editors, and reviewers to use the TREND Statement as a guide when designing evaluation studies and when reporting evaluation results.
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