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Goal attainment scaling as a tool to enhance quality in community-based health promotion
1Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. petra.kolip@uni-bielefeld.de
Objectives:
Goal attainment scaling (GAS) is an individual approach for measuring changes in clinical interventions. We adopted GAS as a tool for community-based health promotion to support practitioners in formulating and monitoring their intervention goals.
Methods:
Eleven regional health promotion networks were invited to set project-specific goals, following Kiresuk and Sherman's rules for goal setting. Follow-up interviews on goal attainment were conducted twenty-one months later. In addition, each network was interviewed on usage and applicability.
Results:
In total, 35 goals were set. The expected outcomes were reached for the majority of projects.
Conclusions:
GAS has been proven to be a useful instrument for quality assurance as it helps with setting and monitoring goals and sub-goals.
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