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American Journal of Community Psychology

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Community groups influence mental health program evaluation. When community demands are important to staff, record-keeping for those issues becomes more complete, impacting data availability.

Area of Science:

Community Psychology
Mental Health Services Research

Background:

Community environments significantly shape human service institutions.
The influence of community groups on mental health program evaluation is understudied.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if community groups indirectly influence mental health outpatient program evaluation record-keeping.
To determine if record completion reflects community-identified problem areas.

Main Methods:

Inventory of program evaluation materials in three mental health program types.
Correlation analysis between record completion frequencies and staff-ranked problem importance.

Main Results:

A positive correlation exists between the importance of community demands to staff and the completeness of data documenting agency performance for those demands.

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Program evaluation data systematically reflects community priorities.

Conclusions:

Community interest groups significantly shape the availability and scope of mental health data.
This influence can lead to unbalanced data, limiting community-driven program improvement efforts.