Evaluating AIDS prevention programs - National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on the Evaluation of AIDS Interventions; Coyle, Susan L.; Boruch, Robert F.; Turner, Charles F. (Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991)
Pretests -- Cognitive Research Strategies -- Ethnographic Studies -- Examples of Studies Related to HIV Transmission -- Male-Male Sexual Contacts -- Variation in Drug Use Patterns -- Ethnographic Methods -- Ethnographic Methods in AIDS Research -- Findings of Ethnographic Research on AIDS -- Gaps and Deficiencies in Current Ethnographic Research -- Recommendations -- References -- D Sampling and Randomization: Technical Questions about Evaluating CDC's Three Major AIDS Prevention Programs -- Sampling Issues -- Number of Case Studies -- Estimating Sample Sizes -- Controlling Attrition -- Confidentiality Guarantees -- Compensation -- Stabilization Funds -- Cultivating and Tracking Respondents -- Personnel for Tracking Respondents -- Modeling Attrition -- Convenience and Probability Sampling -- Sample Studies of Gay and Bisexual Men -- Sample Studies of Intravenous Drug Users -- Randomization -- Examples of Randomized Experiments -- The Ethics of No-treatment Controls -- References -- E Ancillary, Emerging, and Related Projects -- Evaluating Clearinghouse Materials -- Background and Objectives -- Does It Work? -- What Works Better? -- Evaluating Referral Services of the Counseling and Testing Program -- Monitoring Services at Non-CDC Testing Sites -- References -- F The Use of Selection Modeling to Evaluate AIDS Interventions with Observational Data -- I. Introduction -- II. Historical Development of Econometric Methods for Program Evaluation -- III. The Statistics of Program Evaluation with Observational Data -- The Problem -- Solutions -- Solution 1: Identifying Variables ("Z's") -- Solution 2: Parametric Distributional Assumptions on -- Solution 3: Availability of Cohort Data -- The Relationship between Data Availability and Testing of Assumptions -- IV. Application to Aids Interventions -- The Search for Z's -- Collection of Histories.
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Keywords: AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention -- Evaluation -- Methodology; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control; Program Evaluation; Sida -- Prévention -- Évaluation -- Méthodologie.; MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine; MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine; MEDICAL -- Public Health; Évaluation programme; Syndrome d'immunodéficience acquise -- prévention et contrôle.