Element of session evaluation | What this covered | Findings |
---|---|---|
Attendance records | • Facilitator recorded attendance | • Participants attended a mean of 78 % of sessions |
Facilitator session evaluation | • How much of planned session delivered | • All content delivered as planned |
• Timing of session | • Sessions ran for mean of 68.6 mins (planned 60 mins) | |
• Facilitator’s perspective: | ||
○ content easy to understand | • 5.0/5 | |
○ content interesting; participants attentive | • 4.4/5 | |
○ participants engaged and contributed to group discussions | • 4.8/5 | |
• Quality of materials | • 4.5/5 | |
• Issues/concerns raised | • Decreasing ST when parents busy/tired/sick; spouse support/ motivation; boys boisterous and destructive | |
• Gaps in content | • Discuss slow pace of behaviour change | |
• Suggestions for improvement | • Include strategies for spouse support; address perceptions that Wii is good form of exercise; discuss how to manage low parent energy | |
Participant session evaluation | • Quality | • 3.2/4 |
• Satisfaction | • 2.5/3 | |
• Usefulness | • 2.3/3 | |
• Relevance | • 2.3/3 | |
• Enjoyment | • 2.3/3 | |
• Learning opportunity | • 2.1/3 | |
• Facilitator’s knowledge, communication skills and approachability | • 2.4/3 | |
End of program one hour semi-structured focus group | • Aspects of the program participants felt worked or could be improved | • Reported in process evaluation section of Results |