The evaluation of Mothers’ participation project in children’s growth and development process: Using the CIPP evaluation model
نویسندگان
1 Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine Child Health Promotion Research Center
2 Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine
3 Department of Health education and Health Promotion, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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چکیده
Background: Assessment of national children’s growth indicated a high prevalence of growthfailure among them. Many previous projects have studied the children’s growth and nutritionstatus; but most of them leave it without evaluation. The aim of this study was to evaluate Mothers’Participation Project that carried out in Isfahan after passing two years. Materials and Methods:In this descriptive and summative evaluation study, 90 mother and child pairs were enrolled. Theywere studied in two case and control groups. We used CIPP Evaluation Model (Context, Input,Process, Product). Data collected using children growth chart and questionnaire was used inthe project. Obtained data were analyzed by nonparametric statistical tests. Results: The resultsshowed significant differences between the two groups in following items; mean of maternalself-esteem (P < 0.001), maternal performance in training others (P = 0.006), weekly studytime (P = 0.004), frequency of mothers participation in education programs (P = 0.002), theirknowledge about the growth monitoring card (P = 0.03), their ability in drawing growth curves(P < 0.001), mothers knowledge about types of growth curves (P = 0.001) and the objectivesof growth monitoring (P < 0.001). Conclusion: Considering the sustained improvement ofmaternal knowledge and function regarding children’s growth and development after two yearsof participation in the project, the performance of CIPP model was confirmed in this field.
