How many key informants are enough? Analysing the validity of the community readiness assessment
Autor: | Hajo Zeeb, Tilman Brand, Dirk Gansefort, Dorothee Jürgens, Saskia Muellmann |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Community readiness
media_common.quotation_subject Physical activity lcsh:Medicine Health Promotion Assessment Key informants General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Validity 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Promotion (rank) Humans 030212 general & internal medicine lcsh:Science (General) lcsh:QH301-705.5 Exercise media_common Aged Readiness assessment Medical education 030503 health policy & services lcsh:R General Medicine Research Note Health promotion lcsh:Biology (General) Community-based health promotion 0305 other medical science Psychology lcsh:Q1-390 |
Zdroj: | BMC Research Notes, 14:85 BMC Research Notes BMC Research Notes, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2021) |
ISSN: | 1756-0500 |
Popis: | Objective Communities are important settings for health promotion and prevention. The community readiness assessment offers a structured approach to assess resources and opportunities to tackle a health problem within a community. The assessment relies on semi-structured interviews with key informants from the communities. A number of 4–6 key informant interviews are recommended in the literature. However, it is unclear whether this is sufficient to obtain a valid representation of the respective community. This study analysed whether increasing the number of key informants from 4–6 to 12–15 alters the results of the community readiness assessment. Results A total of 55 community readiness interviews were carried out in 4 communities. Overall, the community readiness scores showed little variation after having interviewed 10 key informants in a community. However, even after completing 10 interviews in a community, key informants were still able to identify up to 6 new information items regarding community efforts for physical activity promotion among the elderly, contact and communication channel for informing or approaching the target group, or barriers to participation. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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